🌟 Short Biography

I am Chaofan Tao (陶超凡). I got my PhD from The University of Hong Kong (HKU), guided by Prof. Ngai Wong and Prof. Ping Luo as a member of the MMLAB@HKU family. My academic roots trace back to the Yingcai Honors College at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, where I completed my Bachelor’s degree.

🌱 Career Milestones:
Past internships at Sea AI Lab (Singapore), Amazon Web Service (Bellevue), Huawei (Shenzhen), and SenseTime (Shanghai).

🔍 Research Passions:

1. 📱 Multi-modal Models: Building flexible multi-task large models that conquer diverse tasks across text, image, video & more.
2. ⚡ Efficient ML: Innovating algorithms (pruning, quantization, distillation, token reduction, etc.) to speedup inference and minimize training costs.
   
   

📚 Publications:
Check out my publications published in top venues like ACL / EMNLP / ECCV / NeurIPS / ICML / T-NNLS, including an ACL Outstanding Paper Award 🏆 in 2022.

🚀 [Hiring] Looking for Talents!
Seeking research/engineering interns with skills in LLMs, Multi-modality, or Efficient ML.
💬 Drop me an email to chat about potential projects!

📩 Contact Me:
tcftrees AT gmail DOT com

🛠️ Services

Reviewer Experience:

• Conferences: ICML, ICLR, ECCV, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, ICCV, CVPR
• Journals: T-NNLS