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PhD

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

PhD in Computer Science

Undergraduate

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

B.S. in Mathematics in Computer Science, B.S. in Statistics and Data Science

• Cumulative GPA: 3.823/4.0
• Dean's Honors List (Fall 2021, Winter/Spring/Fall 2022, Winter/Spring 2023)

High School

American Community School of Athens (ACS Athens)

• Weighted Cumulative GPA: 4.886/4.0
• Final IB Score: 44/45

TIC-VLA: A Think-in-Control Vision-Language-Action Model for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

MIC-BEV: Multi-Infrastructure Camera Bird's-Eye-View Transformer with Relation-Aware Fusion for 3D Object Detection

Under Review, Best Paper Award for DriveX Workshop at ICCV 2025

Researcher

HKU Summer Research Program

Leveraged Large Language Models (MiniGPT-4) for multi-modality brain tumor segmentation, integrating four distinct MRI modalities (T1c, T1w, T2c, and FLAIR) onto a common space to enhance segmentation accuracy.

• Awarded Best Presenter and received a PhD offer with a Presidential Scholarship.

Research Assistant

Mobility Lab, UCLA

Contributed to multi-agent perception, sensor fusion, and infrastructure-aware autonomous driving, co-authoring five papers on multi-modal sensor placement (InSPE), misalignment adaptation in cooperative perception (AgentAlign), class-aware map construction (RelMap), spatio-temporal fusion for V2X perception (V2XPnP), and real-world cooperative perception datasets (V2X-ReaLO).

• Participating in the U.S. DOT Intersection Safety Challenge and won $750,000

Research Assistant

Vwani Roychowdhury's Lab, UCLA

Contributed to the implementation and deep learning models of Hilbert (HIL) detector of PyHFO, a multi-window desktop application providing time-efficient HFO detection algorithms for artifact and HFO with spike classification

• Reduced the detection run-time by 50 times compared to state-of-the-art with comparative study to ensure correctness.