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Homepage of Zhen Dong<\/h1> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Assistant Professor at UCSB, NVIDIA AI Researcher<\/h6>\n
Looking for Potential Postdoc, PhD, MS & Interns<\/h6> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Research Interests<\/strong><\/h2> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Efficient AI: Efficient MLLM, VideoGen & Embodied AI<\/h3>\n

LLM Post-Training, Model Compression, AI Systems<\/h3>\n

Function-Calling Agents and Multi-Agent Systems<\/h3>\n

Hardware-Software Co-Design and AI for Science<\/h3>\n

Efficient Evaluation and Alignment of Foundation Models<\/h3> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Education<\/strong><\/h2> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Ph.D.\/Postdoc at University of California, Berkeley<\/strong><\/h3>\n

B.S. at Peking University: Rank 1\/327 in EECS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Awards<\/strong><\/h2> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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