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• Mar, 2026 Code and project page for "HierarchicalPrune: Position-Aware Compression for Large-Scale Diffusion Models" are now available! [Code Release]
  
• Mar, 2026 Two papers, "MORPHEUS: Meta Test-Time Adaptation via Neural Collapse Geometry" and "Efficient Test-Time Adaptation via Decoupled BN Update For Edge Devices", are accepted at ICLR 2026 TTU Workshop! [Paper]
  Congrats to Michal, Alex, and Prof. Ghosh (Univ. of Birmingham)
  Congrats to Xiao and Prof. Ma (Univ. of Cambridge)
• Mar, 2026 Our paper "A Framework for On-Device Uncertainty-Aware Event Detection on Microcontrollers" is accepted by Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal! [Paper]
  Congrats to Prof. Jia (Univ. of Auckland), Prof. Ma (Univ. of Cambridge), Prof. Pham (Cardiff Univ.), Lorena, Prof. Vu (Dartmouth College), and Prof. Mascolo (Univ. of Cambridge)
• Feb, 2026 Code for "PEA: Architecture-Agnostic Test-Time Adaptation via Backprop-Free Embedding Alignment" has been released! [Code Release]
  
• Feb, 2026 Our paper "SpecVocab: Speculative Decoding with a Speculative Vocabulary" is now available online! [Preprint]
  Congrats to Miles, Rui, Alex, and Stelios (SAIC-Cambridge)
• Feb, 2026 Our paper "Tempora: Characterising the Time-Contingent Utility of Online Test-Time Adaptation" is now available online! [Preprint]
  Congrats to Sudo and Prof. Mascolo (Univ. of Cambridge)
• Jan, 2026 Our paper "PEA: Architecture-Agnostic Test-Time Adaptation via Backprop-Free Embedding Alignment" is accepted by ICLR 2026! [Paper]
  Congrats to Xiao, Prof. Zhou (SMU), and Prof. Ma (Univ. of Cambridge)
• Jan, 2026 I will attend AAAI 2026 to present our paper "HierarchicalPrune: Position-Aware Compression for Large-Scale Diffusion Models". See you all in Singapore! [Talk]
• Nov, 2025 Our paper "HierarchicalPrune: Position-Aware Compression for Large-Scale Diffusion Models" is accepted by AAAI 2026! [Paper]
  Congrats to Rui, Sijia, Da, Sourav, and Stelios (SAIC-Cambridge)
• Oct, 2025 Our paper "Efficient High-Resolution Image Editing with Hallucination-Aware Loss and Adaptive Tiling" is now on arXiv [Preprint]
• Sep, 2025 Our paper "MobilePicasso: Efficient High-Resolution Image Editing with Hallucination-Aware Loss and Adaptive Tiling" won the Samsung Best Paper Silver Award
  Congrats to Abhinav, Malcolm, Gil, and Sourav (SAIC-Cambridge)
• Aug, 2025 Our paper "HierarchicalPrune: Position-Aware Compression for Large-Scale Diffusion Models" is now on arXiv [Preprint]
• Jul, 2025 I have been invited to serve as MobiSys 2026 Publicity Chairs [Service]
• Jun, 2025 I have been invited to serve as SenSys 2026 TPC [Service]
• May, 2025 I have been recognised as an ML and Systems Rising Star by MLCommons! See you all in San Francisco! [Honours/Awards]
• Feb, 2025 Our GenAI team's another successful commercialisation, On-device Super-Resolution, has been enabled on the latest flagship Samsung smartphones: Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra! (YouTube) [AI Product]
• Jan, 2025 On-device AI Wallpaper has been enabled on the latest flagship Samsung smartphones: Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra! [AI Product]
• Sep, 2024 Our paper "TinyTTA: Efficient Test-time Adaptation via Early-exit Ensembles on Edge Devices" is accepted by NeurIPS 2024! [Paper]
  Congrats to Hong, Alessio, Prof. Dang (Melbourne), Prof. Talia (Calabria), and Prof. Mascolo (Univ. of Cambridge)
• Sep, 2024 Our paper "TinyTrain: Resource-Aware Task-Adaptive Sparse Training of DNNs at the Data-Scarce Edge" won the Samsung Best Paper Silver Award
  Congrats to Rui, Stelios, Prof. Chauhan (UCL), Prof. Lane (Univ. of Cambridge), and Prof. Mascolo (Univ. of Cambridge)
• Aug, 2024 Our GenAI team's recent research effort has been commercialised with On-device AI Wallpaper enabled on Samsung AI phone series: Galaxy S24, Z Flip 6 and Fold 6! [AI Product]
• Jul, 2024 I will attend ICML 2024 to present our paper "TinyTrain: Resource-Aware Task-Adaptive Sparse Training of DNNs at the Data-Scarce Edge". See you all in Vienna, Austria! [Talk]
• May, 2024 Our paper "TinyTrain: Resource-Aware Task-Adaptive Sparse Training of DNNs at the Data-Scarce Edge" is accepted by ICML 2024 (Accpetance Rate: 27.5%) [Paper]
• Mar, 2024 I presented our paper "UR2M: Uncertainty and Resource-Aware Event Detection on Microcontrollers" on behalf of 1st author, Hong, at IEEE PerCom 2024 [Talk]
• Feb, 2024 I have been invited to give a talk regarding Efficient Continual and On-Device Learning for Edge Computing Platforms at EfficientML Reading Group [Talk]
• Dec, 2023 Our paper "UR2M: Uncertainty and Resource-Aware Event Detection on Microcontrollers" is accepted to PerCom 2024 (Accpetance Rate: 14.5%) [Paper]
• Nov, 2023 Our paper "ChatGPT in education: A blessing or a curse? A qualitative study exploring early adopters’ utilization and perceptions" is accepted to Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans 2023 [Paper]
• Nov, 2023 I presented 2 talks regarding data-and memory-efficient continual learning and on-device training at the extreme edge at SenSys 2023 [Talk]
• Oct, 2023 Our paper "LifeLearner: Hardware-Aware Meta Continual Learning System for Embedded Computing Platforms" is accepted to SenSys 2023 (Accpetance Rate: 18.9%) [Paper]
• Sep, 2023 I embarked on a new chapter in my journey after (almost) completing my PhD: I joined Samsung AI as a Research Scientist. [Job]
• Aug, 2023 I am happy to serve as Artifact Evaluation Committee for MobiCom 2023
• Mar, 2022 I have been invited to give a talk, "Deep Learning at the Extreme Edge", at Cambridge Korea Academic Society (CKAS) [Talk]
• Sep, 2022 Our paper "Causal Analysis on the Anchor Store Effect in a Location-based Social Network" is accepted to ASONAM 2022 [Paper]
• Aug, 2022 Our paper "PROS: an Efficient Pattern-Driven Compressive Sensing Framework for Low-Power Biopotential-based Wearables with On-chip Intelligence" is accepted to MobiCom 2022 [Paper]
• Jun, 2022 I plan to attend and present my recent work regarding efficient continual learning in mobile computing in MobiUK 2022 at UCL on 4-5th July. See you all soon there! [Talk]
• May, 2022 I am invited to serve as a Shadow PC member for ACM SenSys 2022
• May, 2022 Our paper "Exploring On-Device Learning Using Few Shots for Audio Classification" is accepted to EUSIPCO 2022 [Paper]
• April, 2022 I started a research internship at Samsung AI Center-Cambridge focusing on optimising DNN processing on microcontrollers.
• Feb, 2022 Our paper "MyoKey: Inertial Motion Sensing and Gesture-based QWERTY Keyboard for Extended Realities" is accepted to TMC [Paper]
• Feb, 2022 I have been invited to give a talk about YONO (our recent IPSN paper) at KMA [Talk]
• Jan, 2022 I have been invited to give 2 talks regarding on-device continual leanring and multi-task learning on heterogeneous DNNs at KAIST [Talk]
• Jan, 2022 I visited Prof. Lik-Hang Lee's ARM LAB at KAIST for a month
• Jan, 2022 Our paper "YONO: Modeling Multiple Heterogeneous Neural Networks on Microcontrollers" is accepted to IPSN 2022 [Paper]
• Jan, 2022 Mentored students' paper "Enabling On-Device Smartphone GPU based Training: Lessons Learned" is accepted to PerFail 2022, co-located with PerCom 2022. Congrats Anish Das [Paper]
• Dec, 2021 Our paper "Exploring System Performance of Continual Learning for Mobile and Embedded Sensing Applications" won the Best Paper Award at SEC 2021
• Dec, 2021 I have been awarded a Travel Grant to attend SEC 2021
• Sep, 2021 Our paper "Exploring System Performance of Continual Learning for Mobile and Embedded Sensing Applications" is accepted to SEC 2021 [Paper]
• Sep, 2021 Mentored students' paper from the Social Network Analysis course (COMP4641) "Interpretable Business Survival Prediction" is accepted to ASONAM 2021. Congrats Anish and Nikhil [Paper]
• Sep, 2021 Mentored students' paper from the Social Network Analysis course (COMP4641) "IAN: Interpretable Attention Network for Churn Prediction in LBSNs" is accepted to ASONAM 2021Congrats Liang-yu, Yutong, and Youwen [Paper]
• Aug, 2021 I have successfully passed the first year viva at Cambridge
• Jun, 2021 I have been awarded a Travel Grant to attend Interspeech 2021
• Jun, 2021 Our paper "FastICARL: Fast Incremental Classifier and Representation Learning with Efficient Budget Allocation in Audio Sensing Applications" is accepted to Interspeech 2021 [Paper]
• Jun, 2021 Our paper "Knowing when we do not know: Bayesian continual learning for sensing-based analysis tasks" is uploaded on arXiv [Preprint]
• Oct, 2020 Our paper "ContAuth: Continual Learning Framework for Behavioral-based User Authentication" is accepted to IMWUT/UbiComp 2021 [Paper]
• Oct, 2020 Our paper "Aquilis: Using Contextual Integrity for Privacy Protection on Mobile Devices" is accepted to IMWUT/UbiComp 2021 [Paper]
• Oct, 2020 Our paper "Enemy at the Gate: Evolution of Twitter User's Polarization During National Crisis" is accepted to ASONAM 2020 [Paper]
• Oct, 2020 Our paper "A Survey on Computational Politics" is accepted to IEEE Access [Paper]
• Oct, 2020 Start my PhD journey in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge
• Sep 21-25, 2020 I'm excited to attend the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2020 as a young researcher. See you in the Virtual HLF!
• Jul, 2020 Start working as a research assistant with Dr. Jagmohan Chauhan and Prof. Cecilia Mascolo
• Feb, 2020 Start working as a research assistant with Prof. Dimitris Papadias at HKUST
• Jan, 2020 Our paper "MyoKey: Surface Electromyography and Inertial Motion Sensing-based Text Entry in AR" is accepted to PerCom 2020 WIP [Paper]
• Dec, 2019 Invited to serve as a TPC member for INFOCOM 2020 HotPOST
• Dec 3, 2019 Gave a talk on Lifelong Learning in Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
• Oct 11, 2019 Our paper "UbiComp/ISWC 2019: A Post-Conference Summary Report" is in press in IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2019 (IF: 3.813) [Paper]
• Sep 08-13, 2019 Attend UbiComp 2019, London, UK as a presenter and student volunteer. See you in London!
• Aug 25-Sep 01, 2019 Attend ASONAM 2019, Vancouver, Canada as a presenter. See you in Vancouver!
• Jul 02, 2019 Our paper "GeoLifecycle: User Engagement of Geographical Exploration and Churn Prediction in LBSNs" is accepted to IMWUT/UbiComp 2019 [Paper]
• Jul 01, 2019 Visit the research group of Prof. Cecilia Mascolo at the University of Cambridge as a visiting research student
• Jun 27, 2019 Had a short visit to the research group of Prof. Pan Hui at the University of Helsinki
• Jun 20, 2019 Our paper "Effects of Ego Networks and Communities on Self-Disclosure in an Online Social Network" is accepted to ASONAM 2019 (Oral Presentation, Full Paper Acceptance Rate: 14%) [Paper]
• Mar 05, 2019 Attended the Finland-Hong Kong Summit on Artificial Intelligence and 5G in Hong Kong