Greetings! I am a PhD candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where I serve as a Graduate Research Assistant at the ION lab under the supervision of Prof. Christopher G. Brinton. I previously completed a research internship at OPPO US Research Center and a software engineering internship at Meta. My research focuses on Efficient Multimodal LLMs and Inference Optimization.
Interests
- Multimodal Learning
- Mobile Computing
- Large Language Models
Experience
SWE Intern, Summer 2025 & 2026
Meta
Research Intern, Fall 2025
OPPO US Research Center
PhD in ECE, 2026
Purdue University
News
- Apr 2026: Our papers on self-routing device-cloud collaborative LLM reasoning and federated sketching LoRA have been accepted to ICML 2026.
- Mar 2026: Our paper on multimodal federated learning has been accepted to IEEE TMC.
- Feb 2026: I am honored to receive the Google Cloud Research Credits award.
- Dec 2025: I am honored to receive the Tinker Research Grant from the Thinking Machines Lab.
- Oct 2025: Our paper on multimodal LLM inference offloading has been recognized as Best Paper Runner-Up Award at ACM MobiHoc 2025.
- Sep 2025: Our paper on holistic learning for whole-scene segmentation has been accepted to IEEE TPAMI.
- Aug 2025: I am excited to join OPPO US Research Center as a Research Intern. Our paper on LLM agentic route planning has been accepted to EMNLP 2025 Findings.
- Jul 2025: Our paper on multimodal LLM inference offloading has been accepted to ACM MobiHoc 2025.
- May 2025: I am thrilled to join Meta as a SWE Intern.
- Feb 2025: Our paper on high-speed autonomous racing vehicles has been accepted to IEEE JSAS.
- Nov 2024: Our paper on smart pressure e-mat has been accepted to IEEE JSAS.
- Jul 2024: I am honored to be selected for the OpenAI Researcher Access Program.
- May 2024: Our paper on decentralized federated learning has been accepted to IEEE IoTJ.
- Feb 2024: Our paper on digital ethics in federated learning has been accepted to IEEE IC.
- Jan 2024: Our paper on multimodal federated learning has been accepted to ICC 2024.
Selected Publications
For a complete list of publications, please see Publications.
Presentations
Teaching
Purdue University
Grading Assistant
- ECE 60146 - Deep Learning Spring 2023
- ECE 66100 - Computer Vision Fall 2022
Professional Activities
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
- IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN)
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
- IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)
- IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
- IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (TIV)
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS)
- ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)
- ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
- IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (TMLCN)
- IEEE Internet Computing
- Elsevier Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)
- Elsevier Measurement
- SAE International Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles
- Springer Applied Composite Materials
- IEEE Sensors Journal
- IEEE Sensors Letters
- IEEE Access
Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member/Reviewer
- Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM)
- IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR)
- ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
- IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
- IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Manycore SoCs (MCSoC)
- IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (MOST)
- IEEE Sensors Conference
Contact
- liangqiy@purdue.edu
- BHEE 051, 465 Northwestern Ave, West Lafayette, IN 47907