Zhen Dong (Preferred)
Zhen Dong
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Principal Researcher, NVIDIA
Principal Researcher, Nexusflow.ai Inc
- Joined November 2019
Names
Emails
****@berkeley.edu (Confirmed)
, ****@nexusflow.ai (Confirmed)
, ****@nvidia.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
University of California, Santa Barbara (ucsb.edu)
2027 – Present
Principal Researcher
NVIDIA (nvidia.com)
2025 – Present
Principal Researcher
Nexusflow.ai Inc (nexusflow.ai)
2023 – 2025
Postdoc
University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
2022 – 2023
PhD Student
University of California Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
2018 – 2022
Undergrad student
Peking University (pku.edu.cn)
2014 – 2018
Intern
Stanford University (stanford.edu)
2017 – 2017
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
LLMs, AI agents, post training, MLLMs
2023 – Present
diffusion models, video generation, embodied ai
2023 – Present
efficient deep learning, model compression, quantization, pruning, distillation
2019 – Present
efficient deep learning, efficient NLP, light-weight models
2019 – Present
automl, neural architecture search, neural architecture optimization
2018 – 2022
AI accelerator, hardware-software co-design
2018 – 2022
neuromorphic computing, in-memory computing, non-volatile memory
2017 – 2019