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General Information
Full Name | Xianghao Kong |
Languages | English (fluent), Chinese (native), Italian (beginner) |
Education
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2019 - now CS Ph.D.
University of California, Riverside - A GenAI and Explainable ML fanatic.
- Diffusion Models (interpretability & alignment)
- Information Theory
- Density Estimation
- A GenAI and Explainable ML fanatic.
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2015 - 2019 CS B.S.
Hangzhou Dianzi University - Excellent student graduated from the Honors College.
- Matrix Decomposition
- Excellent student graduated from the Honors College.
Experience
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2024.06 - Now Research Intern -- GenAI
Adobe Firefly, San Jose - I'm working on a project to redefine diffusion models.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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2016 - 2019 Undergraduate Student Researcher
Hangzhou Dianzi University, China - Experienced in Machine Learning of matrix or tensor decomposition and sparse representation.
Open Source Projects
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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.
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2023 ITDiffusion
- Information-Theoretic Diffusion - A brand new diffusion model or density estimator based on information theory.
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2018 Brain-Computer-Interface
- Task-Independent EEG-Identification via Low-Rank Matrix Decomposition
Invited Services
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Conference
- 2024 Reviewer or PC (CVPR, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS)
- 2025 Reviewer or PC (ICLR, AISTATS, AAAI)
- 2024 Volunteer (SoCal Robotics)
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Industry Presentation
- Adobe Firefly 2024
- Sony AI 2024
- Walmart Labs 2023
Honors and Awards
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2019 - Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship Award from University of California, Riverside.
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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.
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2017 - 1st Prize University Scholarship from Hangzhou Dianzi University.
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2016 - Zhejiang Province Government Scholarship.
- 1st Prize University Scholarship from Hangzhou Dianzi University.