👤 About Me

I am a Visiting Researcher and Master’s student in Computer Science at Boston University, working with Prof. Reza Rawassizadeh and Prof. Eugene Pinsky. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from NYU Shanghai and the Courant Institute. My research focuses on machine learning system optimization, applied mathematics and computer vision, I’m interested in reinforcement learning, federated learning in the future. In my spare time, I enjoy basketball, heavy compound lifting and hiking.

🔥 News

2025.11: 📝 GradES paper on transformer acceleration submitted to MLSys 2026
2025.08: 📝 Paper on conversational statistical analysis accepted at IJHCI (Q1 Journal)!
2025.01: 🎉 Appointed as Visiting Researcher at Boston University!

📝 Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

MLSys 2026

GradES: Significantly Faster Training in Transformers with Gradient-Based Early Stopping

Qifu Wen^*, Xi Zeng^*, Zihan Zhou, Shuaijun Liu, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Ningxin Su, Reza Rawassizadeh

IJHCI 2025

From Clicks to Conversations: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Conversational Agents in Statistical Analysis

Qifu Wen, Prishita Kochhar, Sherif Zeyada, Tahereh Javaheri, Reza Rawassizadeh

ICRA 2026

One Ocean, All Tasks: A Holistic Simulation Environment for Marine Robotics

Shuaijun Liu^*, Qifu Wen^*, Xingheng Chen, Xuhang Hu, Ningxin Su

Under Review

arXiv 2024

Pruning and Quantization Impact on Graph Neural Networks

Khatoon Khedri, Qifu Wen, Reza Rawassizadeh

Econometrics 2025

Simple Approximations and Interpretation of Pareto Index and Gini Coefficient Using Mean Absolute Deviations

Eugene Pinsky^*, Qifu Wen^*

📖 Educations

2023.09 - 2025.05, M.S. in Computer Science, Boston University 🇺🇸, Boston, USA
2019.09 - 2023.05, B.S. in Mathematics, New York University Shanghai 🇨🇳, Shanghai, China
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences