Xidong Wu

Experience

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  The University of British Columbia

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2016

  Research Assistant
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  University of Cambridge

  Jul 2017 - Jul 2017

  Summer Student
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  Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI)

  Jun 2023 - Sept 2023

  Machine learning research intern

  1. Studied the application of foundation models in federated learning.2. Fine-tuned the CLIP models (RestNet50 and ViT-Base/32) with prompt tuning and linear probing. Compared the ability of foundation models to mitigate client drift with that of other model structures (ResNet, MobileNet).3. Leveraged the zero-shot performance of foundation models to guide the training of lightweight models with knowledge distillation. It largely improves lightweight model performance under severe heterogeneous data settings and benefits inference efficiency.4. Achievement: (1) one paper accepted by NeurIPS2023@FL workshop. (2) One patent. Show less

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  UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

  Sept 2023 - Mar 2024

  Machine Learning Researcher

  1. Used GPT-4 to offer a end-to-end Kowledge graph construction and reasoning in drug discovery.2. We introduced a context-aware relational graph that effectively embodies the hierarchical structure of Molecular Regulatory Pathways (MRPs) and resolves semantic inconsistencies by embedding context directly within the relational edges.3. We used Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) based on constructed MRPs to imrpvoe GPT-4’s reasoning ability. 4. We further developed a novel G-Eval scheme, leveraging GPT-4 for annotation-free performance evaluation on graph construction that demonstrated agreement with evaluations on the benchmark dataset. Show less

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  ByteDance

  Apr 2024 - Nov 2024

  Research Scientist

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  Google

  Dec 2024 - now

  Machine Learning Engineer