I am a third-year PhD student at Caltech, where I am very fortunate to be advised by Yisong Yue and to work closely with Yang Song. My research centers on generative modeling — in particular, inference-time posterior sampling with pretrained diffusion priors, with applications to reward-guided generation and inverse problems. More recently, I have been exploring the interplay between generative modeling and representation learning, with a focus on learning better visual tokenizers for latent generative models.
Outside of research, I enjoy chess, piano, photography, and running.
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California Institute of Technology, 2023-Present
Computing + Mathematical Science
Tsinghua University, 2019-2023
Yao Class, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
Shenzhen Middle School, 2013-2019
| May, 2026 | Our paper EOSTok received a spotlight presentation at ICML 2026! | |
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| Sep, 2025 | Two papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025! Meet me at San Diego :) | |
| April, 2025 | Our paper DAPS received an oral presentation at CVPR 2025! | |
| Jan, 2025 | Our paper InverseBench received a spotlight presentation at ICLR 2025! | |
| Sep, 2023 | I joined Caltech CMS as a PhD student! | |
| June, 2023 | I graduated from Tsinghua University! |