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Email: liuyongkang [at] qhd.neu.edu.cn
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I am an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, where I earned my Ph.D. under the supervision of Professors Wang Daling and Feng Shi. My doctoral research focused on dialogue systems, multilingual NLP, and LLM fine-tuning. From 2022 to 2024, I am a joint Ph.D. student at LMU Munich, advised by ACL Fellow Professor Hinrich Schütze.

Undergraduate and Master’s students interested in LLMs and NLP are welcome to contact me.

Research Interest

  • PEFT (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning)
  • MEFT(Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning)
  • Large Language Model Security
  • Efficient Inference for LLMs
  • Large Model Reasoning

In addition to the research interests mentioned above, it also includes Multimodal LLM,Multilingual LLM, Interpretable LLM Analysis, and so on.

Recruitment

Master Student: You are welcome to apply for my graduate program—whether you are taking the postgraduate entrance exam or seeking admission via recommendation.

Undergraduate Student: We recruit undergraduate students throughout the year — early joiners are welcome to get involved and start learning with the group right away. The laboratory provides high-performance GPU servers.