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Contact Information

Name Qifu (Danny) Wen
Professional Title Research Assistant
Email qfwen@bu.edu

Professional Summary

Research Assistant in Prof. Xi Lin’s group at Shanghai Jiao Tong University; previously Boston University ML Group. Efficient and reliable training of large models, LLM fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning.

Experience

  • 2026 - Present

    Shanghai, China

    Research Assistant
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Prof. Xi Lin's Group
    • Advisor: Prof. Xi Lin.
  • 2025 - 2026

    Boston, MA

    Researcher
    Boston University, ML Group
    • Lead author on GradES [C.1]: gradient-based per-matrix early stopping; 1.70–1.77× faster full-parameter fine-tuning at neutral accuracy; under review at AAAI 2027.
    • Co-first author on OceanEnv [C.2]: unified marine-robotics simulation environment; under review at AAAI 2027.
    • Co-first author on ECRL [C.3] (reinforcement learning) and contributor to Pose as a Lens [C.4] (self-supervised diagnostics); under review at NeurIPS 2026.
  • 2023 - 2025

    Boston, MA

    Graduate Research Assistant
    Boston University, ML Group
    • First author on IJHCI journal paper on conversational agents for statistical analysis [J.1].

Education

  • 2023 - 2025

    Boston, MA

    M.S.
    Boston University
    Computer Science
    • Advisor: Prof. Reza Rawassizadeh
  • 2019 - 2023

    Shanghai, China

    B.S.
    NYU Shanghai
    Mathematics

Professional Service

Conference Reviewing

ICML 2026; NeurIPS 2026

Awards

  • 2024
    AI & Computer Vision Lab Student Research Grant
    Boston University

    Top 1%

Competitions

MIT Media Lab — Edge Motion Labs

Cambridge, MA

AI Intelligent Motion Detection System Top 20

Core Courses

Overall M.S. GPA 3.83/4.0; core coursework 4.0/4.0; Top 5% in major

Stochastic Processes, Stochastic PDEs, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Statistical Machine Learning, Advanced Machine Learning, Generative AI, Operating Systems, Database Systems, Theory of Computation, Software Engineering