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General Information

Full Name Xianghao Kong
Languages English (fluent), Chinese (native), Italian (beginner)

Education

  • 2019 - now
    CS Ph.D.
    University of California, Riverside
    • A GenAI and Explainable ML fanatic.
      • Diffusion Models (interpretability & alignment)
      • Information Theory
      • Density Estimation
  • 2015 - 2019
    CS B.S.
    Hangzhou Dianzi University
    • Excellent student graduated from the Honors College.
      • Matrix Decomposition

Experience

  • 2024.06 - Now
    Research Intern -- GenAI
    Adobe Firefly, San Jose
    • I'm working on a project to redefine diffusion models.
  • Winter 2024
    Research Intern -- GenAI
    SonyAI, CA, USA
    • I worked with Vikash Sehwag to accelerate the training of Diffusion Models from scratch on 8 H100 GPUs. It costs less than $2000 in only 3 days!
  • 2022 - now
    Graduate Student Researcher
    University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
    • I am studying Generative AI and Explainable ML based on information theory and density estimation.
  • 2020 - 2021
    Graduate Student Researcher
    University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
    • Experienced in Big Streaming Data Mining, focusing on online anomaly detection and high-dimensional time series analysis.
  • 2016 - 2019
    Undergraduate Student Researcher
    Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
    • Experienced in Machine Learning of matrix or tensor decomposition and sparse representation.

Open Source Projects

  • 2024
    Info-Decomp
    • Interpretable Diffusion Via Information Decomposition - Illuminating the fine-grained relationships learned by diffusion models by noticing a precise relationship between diffusion and information decomposition.
  • 2023
    ITDiffusion
    • Information-Theoretic Diffusion - A brand new diffusion model or density estimator based on information theory.
  • 2018
    Brain-Computer-Interface
    • Task-Independent EEG-Identification via Low-Rank Matrix Decomposition

Invited Services

  • Conference
    • 2024 Reviewer or PC (CVPR, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS)
    • 2025 Reviewer or PC (ICLR, AISTATS, AAAI)
    • 2024 Volunteer (SoCal Robotics)
  • Industry Presentation
    • Adobe Firefly 2024
    • Sony AI 2024
    • Walmart Labs 2023

Honors and Awards

  • 2019
    • Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship Award from University of California, Riverside.
  • 2018
    • Chinese Government Scholarship from China Scholarship Council (CSC).
    • The Meritorious Winner in Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling. (top 9.74% in over 20,000 teams all over the world)
    • Zhejiang Province Government Scholarship.
  • 2017
    • 1st Prize University Scholarship from Hangzhou Dianzi University.
  • 2016
    • Zhejiang Province Government Scholarship.
    • 1st Prize University Scholarship from Hangzhou Dianzi University.