I am a Computer Science PhD candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York advised by Prof. Alex Gittens in collaboration with Dr. Mikhail Yurochkin from IBM Research (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab) and Prof. Yuekai Sun from University of Michigan. My current research focuses on efficient techniques for alignment of foundation models. I am also interested in the out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization research and the applications of AI in solving real world problems.

Before joining RPI, I worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington in Summer 2018, where I implemented a robust and scalable video processing engine that performed real-time image classification and labeling using a state-of-the-art deep neural network, and measured its performance. I received my BS in Software Engineering from Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University.

Outside of work and school, I like to hike, dance and listen to music. I also like to travel and to interact with people from different cultures!

Email: lilianngweta@gmail.com


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