Kenan Jiang

Kenan is working on his PhD in Computer Science at Emory University.
He has the privilege of being supervised by Dr. Fei Liu.
Kenan finished his undergrad study at UC Berkeley with a 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 agents' Reasoning and Planning.
Outside of academia, Kenan enjoys practicing Wing Chun and playing his Erhu.

News

• Aug 2025: Finished his summer AI internship at PRGX, had a good time.
• Feb 2025: Will join Emory CS PhD program in Fall 2025 !!!
• Feb 2025: New preprint HARBOR is out!!!

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