Email: jialun2@illinois.edu
Phone: (909) 575-7644
About Me
Hello! My name is Gavin. I'm currently a research scientist at Meta in the AI and Systems Co-Design team. I finished my PhD in 2024 from the ECE department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My advisor was Richard Y. Zhang.
My work focuses on developing scalable and efficient training algorithms across different areas of machine learning, especially in deep learning recommendation systems and large language models. I study how adaptive and preconditioned methods can effecitvely train large neural networks. My research has been published at top venues like NeurIPS and JMLR.
Previously, I received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, and a master's degree in computational mathematics from Stanford.