CV
Please find my CV in the attached PDF 👉.
General Information
Full Name | Chieh-Hsin (Jesse) LAI |
Tags | AI research scientist; Applied mathematician |
Languages | Mandarin, English, Japanese |
Experience
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2024 - Present Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan - Deep learning approaches for numerical methods and partial differential equations.
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2022 - Present Research Scientist
Sony AI, Tokyo - Deep generative models (especially diffusion models), mathematically grounded deep learning, robustness.
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2021 - 2022 Senior Research Engineer
Sony USA - Robustness of deep learning.
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2015 - 2016 Research Assistant
Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Harmonic analysis and microlocal analysis of PDEs.
Education
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2021 PhD in Mathematics
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Theory and applications of deep learning, anomaly detection, robustness, generative models
- Advisor. Gilad Lerman
- Period. August 2018 – May 2021
- Reaction-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs), harmonic analysis
- Advisor. Wei-Ming Ni
- Period. June 2017 – June 2018
- Theory and applications of deep learning, anomaly detection, robustness, generative models
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2015 Bachelor in Mathematics
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Events and Invited Talks
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Dec. 3, 2024 Invited talk at Future of Hybrid Society, How Digital Twin and XR Will Shape Our Society
- Diffusion Models × Digital Twins -- Foundations and Applications
- Webpage
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Nov. 29, 2024 Invited talk at LoG 2024 Suzhou Meetup @ Duke Kunshan University
- Evolution of Diffusion Models -- Enhancing Accuracy and Efficiency in Diffusion Models
- Webpage
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Nov. 15, 2024 Invited talk at Industrial Problems Seminar, College of Science & Engineering at University of Minnesota
- Evolution of Diffusion Models -- From Birth to Enhanced Efficiency and Controllability
- Webpage
- YouTube Link
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Nov. 6, 2024 Invited talk at KIAS Center for AI and Natural Sciences 2024 Fall Workshop
- Enhancing Accuracy and Efficiency in Diffusion Models
- Flyer
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Oct. 16, 2024 Invited talk at Tohoku University, AIE - WISE Program for AI Electronics
- Foundations and Recent Advances in Deep Generative Modeling -- Diffusion and GAN
- Flyer
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Aug. 9, 2024 Invited talks at Cognitive Developmental Robotics Lab at University of Tokyo
- Introduction to Diffusion Models and Its Applications in Other Disciplines
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April 26, 2024 Invited talks at Crunch Seminar of Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University
- Exploring the Intersection of Diffusion Models and (Partial) Differential Equation Solving
- YouTube Link
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April 19, 2024 Invited talks on Scientific Machine Learning at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Part-II)
- Diffusion Models, Insights into Their Connection with PDE solving
- Webinar Page
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March 29, 2024 Invited talks on Scientific Machine Learning at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Part-I)
- Theoretical Foundation of Diffusion Models
- Webinar Page
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Feb. 29, 2024 Guest lecture at Duke Kushan University
- Evolution of Diffusion Models, From Birth to Enhanced Efficiency and Controllability
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Feb. 27, 2024 Invited talk at Department of Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- Theory of Diffusion Models
- YouTube Link (in Mandarin). You can find a list of credits for the materials used in the video here (under construction...).
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Feb. 23, 2024 Invited talk at Appier, Taiwan
- Evolution of Diffusion Models, Its Birth and Applications
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Feb. 22, 2024 Invited talk at Department of Mathematics, National Central University, Taiwan
- Theory of Diffusion Models
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Feb. 22, 2024 Invited talk at Robotic Search Lab, National Central University, Taiwan
- Evolution of Diffusion Models, Its Birth and Applications
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Feb. 21, 2024 Invited talk at Department of EE, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Evolution of Diffusion Models, From Birth to Enhanced Efficiency and Controllability
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Feb. 21, 2024 Invited talk at NVIDIA, Taiwan
- Evolution of Diffusion Models, From Birth to Enhanced Efficiency and Controllability
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Feb. 20, 2024 Invited talk at Learning on Graphs & Geometry (LoGG) reading group
- Consistency Trajectory Models, Learning Probability Flow ODE Trajectory of Diffusion
- YouTube Link.
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Oct. 21, 2019 Presented at NSF ATD and AMPS workshop 2019, Washington D.C.
- Robust Subspace Recovery Layer for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
Academic Services
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TBD, 2025 Tutorial at ICASSP 2025
- Transforming Chaos into Harmony -- Diffusion Models in Audio Signal Processing
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Dec. 10, 2024 Organized Expo Workshop at NeurIPS 2024, Vancouver
- Efficient Content Creation and Editing through Deep Generative Models
- NeurIPS Page
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Nov. 10, 2024 Tutorial at ISMIR 2024
- From White Noise to Symphony🎼 -- Diffusion Models for Music and Sound
- Our official webpage
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May 7, 2024 Organized Social Event at ICLR 2024, Vienna
- Recent advances on diffusion and GAN
- ICLR Page
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Dec. 10, 2023 Organized Expo Workshop at NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans
- Media Content Restoration and Editing with Deep Generative Models and Beyond
- NeurIPS Page
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2024 IEEE TPAMI, ACM TKDD Reviewer
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2021- ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS Reviewer
Open Source Projects
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2024- Consistency Trajectory Model (CTM)
- For single-step diffusion model sampling, CTM achieves SOTA on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet 64x64. CTM offers diverse sampling options and balances computational budget with sample fidelity effectively.
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2024- Slicing Adversarial Network (SAN)
- A theoretically grounded and simple modification scheme for discriminators of almost any GANs to enhance GAN performance. Applying SAN to StyleGAN-XL results in SOTA performance on ImageNet 256x256.
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2023- FP-Diffusion
- Improving density estimation of diffusion models by regularizing with the underlying equation describing the temporal evolution of scores, theoretically supported.
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2023- GibbsDDRM
- Solving blind linear inverse problems by utilizing the pre-trained diffusion models in a Gibbs sampling manner.