Ph.D.
Salesforce (Formerly with Lehigh University)
Biography
Yutong Dai works as the Senior Applied Scientist in Salesforce. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University, under the supervision of Professor Daniel P. Robinson. He also works closely with Professor Lichao Sun.
His research interests include
- building and evaluating computer/browser use agents
- training (multimodal) large language models
- designing, analyzing and implementing algorithms for large scale non-convex non-smooth optimization problems arisen in machine learning and federated learning, and
- making machine learning and deep learning algorithms secure, private, and robust.
Interests
- Computer Use Agents
- Multimodal Large Language Model
- Nonsmooth Optimization with Structured Sparsity
- Federated Learning
Education
Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, December, 2023
Lehigh University
M.S. in Statistics, May, 2019
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Statistics (with honors), June, 2017
Sichuan University
