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 training algorithms for optimization problems in different areas of machine learning, especially large language models. I study how adaptive and preconditioned first-order 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.