Biography
Welcome! Yifan (Evelyn) Gong is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, supervised by Prof. Yanzhi Wang. She received the B.S. degree (with the highest honor) in Telecommunications Engineering from Xidian University in 2017 and the M.A.Sc. degree (with fellowship) in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2019. Her research vision is in general artificial intelligence systems to facilitate deep learning implementation on various edge devices and bridge the gap between algorithm innovations and hardware performance optimizations by a hardware and software co-design approach. It includes energy-efficient deep learning and artificial intelligence systems and accelerations of deep neural networks such as large-scale models for AI-generated content. Yifan’s works (first-authored) have been published in top-tier conferences and journals including ICML, ICLR, ICCV, ECCV, DAC, ICCAD, and TODAES.
Yifan is on the 2024 job market, please feel free to contact if you are interested!Research Interests
- Hardware and Software Co-Design for Artificial Intelligence Accelerations
- Energy-Efficient Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Systems
- Accelerations of Emerging Large-Scale Models for AIGC
- Model Compression
- Efficient and Robust Deep Learning
News and Updates
- May 2024: Honored to be awarded as 2024 ML and Systems Rising Star!
- May 2024: One first-authored paper “E^2GAN: Efficient Training of Efficient GANs for Image-to-Image Translation” is accepted in ICML’24. Thank you, team!
- April 2024: Grateful to receive the travel grant from CVPR’24.
- April 2024: Selected as DAC Young Fellow.
- March 2024: Our research paper titled “Reverse Engineering Deceptions in Machine- and Human-Centric Attacks” has been officially published in Foundations and Trends® (FnT) in Privacy and Security.
- Feb 2024: One first-authored paper “Lotus: learning-based online thermal and latency variation management for two-stage detectors on edge devices” is accepted in DAC’24!
Professional Experiences
Snap Inc., Research Intern, May 2023 - Dec 2023
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IBM, Research Intern, May 2021 - August 2021
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