Chenda Duan
UCLA Ph.D Computer Engineering | MS. Computer Science 24' | BS. Computer Science 22'
Los Angeles, CA
Email: chenda@ucla.edu
About me
Hello there! I’m Chenda Duan, a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at UCLA, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Vwani Roychowdhury. I earned both my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA as well, conducting my master’s research under the guidance of Prof. Bolei Zhou. During my bachelor’s studies, I had the opportunity to work with Prof. M. Khalid Jawed and Dr. [Roel Ophoff]. I am a 10-year UCLA Bruin!
My current research lies at the intersection of AI and Medical Neuroscience. I am particularly focused on applying machine learning techniques to address medical conditions such as epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease, aiming to develop innovative solutions for diagnosis and treatment.
Additionally, I am working on vision-language/multi-modal models, with a specific focus on achieving performance comparable to SOTA models like GPT-4 and Gemini for long-horizon video understanding, using regular-sized VLMs and LLMs.
My previous research experience includes work in autonomous driving, reinforcement learning, and robotic.
News
| Feb 26, 2025 | One paper got accepted to ICLR 2025 as Spotlight, and one paper got accepted to CVPR 2025!🎉 Thanks to my co-authors!😄 |
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| Mar 22, 2024 | Finally got my Ph.D offer from UCLA ECE! Another 5 years@UCLA🤔 |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Two papers accepted by NeurIPS 2023!🎉 One as Spotlight and one as Poster!🙂 |
| Sep 13, 2023 | I will be the Associate Instructor for CSM152A for the fall quarter！ |
| Apr 10, 2023 | I will join Kuaishou Technology® as a ML & Algorithm Engineer Intern this Summer!🙂 |
| Mar 12, 2023 | I will be the TA for CS33 next quarter! |
| Nov 8, 2022 | I will continue to be the TA for CS174A for Winter 2023 (and potentially Spring2023)! |
| Sep 9, 2022 | I will be the TA for UCLA-CS174A this FALL🧐 |
| Apr 1, 2022 | I finally decide to stay at UCLA for two more years for the MSCS program😊 |
| Mar 19, 2022 | Master degree application seasons ends, just like 3 years ago, nothing exciting, only pities😷 |
| Jul 25, 2020 | I swithed my major to Computer Science, before it starting declining🥶 |
| Mar 22, 2019 | I got admitted to UCLA with physics as my major🥳 |
| Jun 30, 2016 | I decided to go to international department of my high school, and give up taking 高考👀 |
| Nov 8, 2000 | I was born! |
About my academics.
The field of computer science is vast and ever-evolving. Within this expansive domain, it is hard to constrain yourself into a specific area of interest. I am a firm believer in the power of interdisciplinary research and the importance of a broad skillset. I am passionate about the intersection of machine learning, medical science/neurosicence, computer vision, LLMs, and robotics.
Research Interests:
- AI for Science
- LLM, VLM, LMM
- Reinforcement Learning
- Robotics
At UCLA, I’ve been fortunate to collaborate with three prominent research teams:
Research Groups:
- UCLA Prof Vwani Roychowdhury’s Group
- UCLA Prof Bolei Zhou’S Group
- UCLA’s Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics.
- UCLA Structures-Computer Interaction Lab.
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