Lifu Huang

Computer Science Department,

UC Davis

Email: lfuhuang@ucdavis.edu

Davis, CA, US

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Our group is mainly working on the fields of Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Learning, and Machine Learning. We are particularly interested in building efficient models and benchmarks that can encourage machines to perform human-level intelligence. We are grateful to NSF, DARPA, IARPA, U.S. Air Force, Amazon (AWS and Alexa AI), Meta AI, Google, Intuit and Washington Post for supporting our research!

Ph.D. Students

  • Menglong (Barry) Yao: Continual Adaptation of Multimodal Foundation Models, (Fall 2022)
  • Zihao Lin: Agentic AI, Multimodal AI (Fall 2023)
  • Mohammad Beigi: Reward Hacking of RL-based Post-Tuning; Uncertainty Estimation and Calibration for LLMs, (Fall 2023)
  • Haibo Wang: 3D Understanding and Spacial Intelligence with Multimodal Foundation Models, (Fall 2025)

MS Students

Visiting Students

  • Ying Shen: Multimodal Learning, Parameter Efficient Tuning, (Fall 2021)
  • Yuexi Shen (MS from University of California, Santa Barbara): Novelty Evaluation for Scientific Hypotheses; Strategic Conversation Simulation with RL

Alumi

  • Sijia Wang (PhD, 2020-2024), now a Research Scientist at Amazon AWS AI
  • Zhiyang Xu(PhD, 2021-2026), now a Research Scientist at Institute of Foundation Models
  • Minqian Liu(PhD, 2021-2026), now a Research Scientist at Microsoft AI
  • Jingyuan Qi(PhD, 2022-2026), now a Research Scientist at Eigen AI
  • Yue Zhang (PhD from MSU, 2024)
  • Zoe Zheng (MS from VT, co-advised with Chris Thomas, 2022-2024)
  • Tong Zhou (MS from VT, 2022-2024)
  • Xiaochu Li (MS from VT, 2021-2023)
  • Trevor Ashby (MS from VT, 2023-2024)
  • Sai Gurrapu (MS from VT, co-advised with Feras Batarseh, 2022)
  • Pei Wang (MS from VT, co-advised with Jin-Hee Cho, 2021-2022)
  • Zaid Al Nouman (undergrad from VT, 2022)
  • Zijian Jin (visiting MS from New York University, 2022)
  • Moksh Shukla (visiting undergrad from IIT Kanpur, 2022)
  • Sidhant Chandak (visiting undergrad from IIT Kanpur, 2022)
  • Barry Menglong Yao (visiting MS from University of Buffalo, 2022)
  • Mingchen Li (visiting MS from Georgia State University, 2022)
  • Pritika Ramu (visiting undergrad from BITS Pilani, 2022-2023)