Collaboration and Mentoring
(in reverse chronological order)
Maojiang Su, University of Science and Technology of China (School of the Gifted Young) BS'24 -> CS PhD at NU (Fall'25)
Zoe Meta, High School Outreach Student @ Vernon Hills High School -> MIT (Class of 2029)
Sophia Pi, Northwestern CS+Econ+Math Methods in Social Science BS'26
Chenghao Qiu, BSCS'25 at Tianjin University -> CS PhD study at TAMU (Fall'25)
Thomas Yuan-Lung Lin, High School Outreach Student @ WLSH'23 -> NTU Physics + Econ (Class of 2027)
Stephen Cheng, Northwestern EE BS'25 + CS MS'25 -> CS PhD at UMD (Fall'25)
Wei-Po Wang, NTU Physics BS'24 -> Phys PhD at Johns Hopkins University (Fall'25)
Fundamental Limits of Prompt Tuning Transformers: Universality, Capacity and Efficiency [ICLR'25b]
Outlier-Efficient Hopfield Layers for Large Transformer-Based Models [ICML'24]
Morris Huang, NTU Physics MS'24 -> CS PhD at North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Fall'25)
On Statistical Rates of Conditional Diffusion Transformers: Approximation, Estimation and Minimax Optimality [ICLR'25c]
BiSHop: Bi-Directional Cellular Learning for Tabular Data with Generalized Sparse Hopfield Model [ICML'24]
Hong-Yu Chen, NTU Physics MS'24 -> CS PhD study at NU (Fall'24)
Bo-Yu Chen, High School Outreach Student @ HSNU'23 -> NTU Physics + CS (Class of 2027) with NTU Fu Bell Scholarship (Highest Distinction across University)
Chenwei Xu, MSCS'24 at NU -> Stats & DS PhD study at NU (Fall'24)
BiSHop: Bi-Directional Cellular Learning for Tabular Data with Generalized Sparse Hopfield Model [ICML'24]
On Sparse Modern Hopfield Model [NeurIPS'23]
Beyond PID Controllers: PPO with Neuralized PID Policy for Proton Beam Intensity Control in Mu2e [ML4Phys Workshop @ NeurIPS'23] [READS Collaboration, Fermilab]
Feature Programming for Multivariate Time Series Prediction [ICML'23]
Dennis Wu, MSCS'24 at NU -> CS PhD study at NU (Fall'24)
Provably Optimal Memory Capacity for Modern Hopfield Models [NeurIPS'24]
Uniform Memory Retrieval with Larger Capacity for Modern Hopfield Models [ICML'24]
STanHop: Sparse Tandem Hopfield Model for Memory-Enhanced Time Series Prediction [ICLR'24]
On Sparse Modern Hopfield Model [NeurIPS'23]
Zhenyu Pan, MSECE'24 at U. of Rochester -> CS PhD study at NU (Fall'24)
Zhenji Wang, UMD'21 Math -> MS'23 at Columbia U. -> ML PhD study at U. of Tsukuba