Di Niu @ University of Alberta

 
 

Short Bio


I’m currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Alberta.  I did my PhD in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto, from 2008 to 2012. I received the B.Eng. degree in 2005 from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, China. Now I’m leading a team of graduate students working on exciting topics in the cross-disciplinary areas of GenAI, data science, parallel and distributed computing systems.

 

Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada


Research Areas: Generative AI, Large Language Model, Diffusion Models, parallel and distributed computing, computing systems to support generative AI, on-device and edge AI acceleration, NLP and knowledge representation, computer vision.

Contact me

Email: dniu at ualberta dot ca

Curriculum Vitae

Can be provided upon request.


Links

University of Alberta

ECE Department, UofA

News


Papers accepted to NeurIPS 2024, EMNLP 2024

Openings


I currenlty have openings for PhD, MSc and Postdoc positions in the following areas:


  1. -LLMs, pretraining, fine-tuning, alignment, prompting and reasoning. LLM on-device acceleration.

  2. -Diffusion Models and Image Editing, their pretraining, fine-tuning and on-device acceleration

  3. -Software-hardware co-optimization for deep learning acceleration (especially GenAI)

  4. -Parallel and distributed systems design, high performance computing for AI

- Federated and distributed learning

- Large language models and knowledge representation (for Medical QA and Code generation)

  1. -AI for science