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Contact Information
| Name | Qifu (Danny) Wen |
| Professional Title | Visiting Researcher |
| qfwen@bu.edu |
Professional Summary
Visiting Researcher at Boston University ML Group. Research focuses on efficient training of large models, federated learning, and sim-to-real robotics.
Experience
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2025 - 2026 Boston, MA
Visiting Researcher
Boston University, ML Group
- Lead author on GradES [C.1]: gradient-based early stopping for LoRA fine-tuning, achieving 1.2–1.57× speedup; targeting ICLR 2026.
- Co-first author on OceanEnv [C.2]: unified marine robotics simulation environment; submitted to IROS 2026.
- Developing Fed-GSR federated learning framework (gradient stable rank adaptive compression); targeting ICLR 2026.
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2023 - 2025 Boston, MA
Graduate Research Assistant
Boston University, ML Group
- First author on IJHCI journal paper on conversational agents for statistical analysis.
- Contributed to GNN compression study submitted to JMLR.
Education
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2023 - 2025 Boston, MA
M.S.
Boston University
Computer Science
- Advisor: Prof. Reza Rawassizadeh
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2019 - 2023 Shanghai, China
B.S.
NYU Shanghai
Mathematics
Professional Service
Awards
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2024 AI & Computer Vision Lab Student Research Grant
Boston University
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