About Me
My name is Haoyang (pronounced as “Hau Yeung”). I am currently a PhD candidate at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, advised by Prof. Guang Lin.
I study Generative Modeling and Reinforcement Learning (RL) from a probabilistic modeling perspective. My interests include Large Language Models (LLMs), continuous and discrete diffusion, RL, and sampling/optimization methods that improve latency and robustness. My goal is to build fast and reliable LLMs.
Research Interests
- Large Language Models (Agent Memory, Pre-training & Post-training)
- Multimodal Generative Models (VLM, Image Editing, Post-training)
- Generative Models (Diffusion Models, Difussion Language Models, Autoregressive Models)
News
- [Jan/2026] 2 papers were accepted by ICLR 2026
- [Jan/2026] Invited talk at the Crunch Seminar, Brown University
- [Jan/2026] Invited talk at the Computational Scientific Imaging Lab, Peking University
- [Nov/2025] 1 paper was selected for oral presentation at AAAI 2026
- [Oct/2025] 1 paper was accepted by Journal of Computational Physics
- [Sep/2025] 🔥 Feel the Ultra-Fast Language Generation in our latest work (60× faster than ARMs): Discrete Diffusion Divergence Instruct
- [Oct/2024] Student Travel Award at 2024 Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning Annual Meeting
- [Aug/2024] Student Travel Award at 2024 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS24)
- [Jul/2024] Invited talk at the Crunch Seminar, Brown University
- [May/2024] 1 paper was accepted by ICML 2024
- [Apr/2024] Passed the preliminary exam and became a Ph.D. candidate
- [Apr/2024] Student Travel Award at the ICERM workshop about Nonlocality and Interacting Particle Systems
- [Jan/2024] 1 paper was accepted by AISTATS 2024
- [Dec/2023] 1 paper was accepted by Journal of Computational Physics
- [Sep/2023] Student Travel Award at 2023 Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning Annual Meeting
- [May-Jul/2023] Givens Associates at Argonne National Laboratory
- [Sep/2022] 1 paper was accepted by NPJ Digital Medicine
Services
Reviewers: ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, AISTATS, AAAI
Contact
- lastname+528 at purdue dot edu
- 516 Northwestern Ave, West Lafayette, IN 47906
