Kenan Jiang

Kenan is currently pursuing his Master's degree in Computer Science at Emory University.
In the meantime, he conducts NLP research under the supervision of Dr. Fei Liu.
He graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Applied Math in 2021
and subsequently worked as an ML Software Engineer at Linqia for 2.5 years.
He had a great time interning at ERIC Lab at UC Santa Cruz from 2022 to 2024.
Kenan's research interests span LLM for Decision-Making, Reasoning and Planning.
Outside of academia, Kenan enjoys practicing Wing Chun and playing his Erhu.

News

• Feb 2025: Will join Emory CS PhD program in Fall 2025 !!!
• Feb 2025: New preprint HARBOR is out!!!
• Dec 2024: Will join PRGX as an AI intern in Summer 2025. See you in Atlanta!!!
• Aug 2024: Moved to Atlanta, GA.

Publications[Full List]

• UD-ETCSUX: Toward a Better Understanding of Sumerian Syntax

  Kenan Jiang, Adam Anderson

  ML4AL Workshop, ACL 2024

  A study establishing the first universal dependency standard for Sumerian transliteration.

• ComCLIP: Training-Free Compositional Image and Text Matching

  Kenan Jiang*, Xuehai He*, Ruize Xu, Xin Eric Wang

  NAACL 2024

  A study aims at improving the zero-shot image-text matching capabilities of Vision-Language Models.

• Wavelet: Efficient DNN training with tick-tock scheduling

  Guanhua Wang, Kehan Wang, Kenan Jiang, Xiangjun Li, Ion Stoica

  MLSys 2021

  A study that accelerates DNN training by utilizing available GPU memory during the training process.

Contact

Email: kenan.jiang@emory.edu

Phone: 510-697-6211