Biography

I am a Senior Deep Learning Algorithm Engineer at the Nemo Team of NVIDIA, working on efficient LLM, model compression, and knowledge distillation. Before joining NVIDIA, I worked as a MTS Software Development Engineer at the Efficient GenAI team of AMD, focusing on LLM acceleration, hybrid LLM models, and large-scale training optimization. I received my Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2025 and 2019, supervised by Prof. Hun-Seok Kim. Prior to that, I earned my B.Eng. from Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) and University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland in 2017.

Selected Publications

• [arXiv'26] X-Token: Projection-Guided Cross-Tokenizer Knowledge Distillation. [Paper]
  Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas*, Adithyakrishna Venkatesh Hanasoge*, Mingyu Yang*, Ali Taghibakhshi, Saurav Muralidharan, Ashwath Aithal, Pavlo Molchanov
• [arXiv'26] Long-Context Aware Upcycling: A New Frontier for Hybrid LLM Scaling. [Paper]
  Parsa Ashrafi Fashi, Utkarsh Saxena, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Aref Jafari, Akash Haridas, Mingyu Yang, Vansh Bhatia, Guihong Li, Vikram Appia, Emad Barsoum
• [NeurIPS'25] Zebra-Llama: Towards Extremely Efficient Hybrid Models. [Paper] [Code] [Models] [Blog]
  Mingyu Yang*, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh*, Guihong Li*, Vikram Appia, Emad Barsoum
• [COLM'25] X-EcoMLA: Upcycling Pre-Trained Attention into MLA for Efficient and Extreme KV Compression. [Paper]
  Guihong Li*, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh*, Mingyu Yang*, Vikram Appia, Emad Barsoum
• [TMLCN'25] Diffusion-Aided Joint Source Channel Coding For High Realism Wireless Image Transmission. [Paper] [Github]
  Mingyu Yang, Bowen Liu, Boyang Wang, Hun-Seok Kim
• [ICRA'25] SAM-guided Pseudo Label Enhancement for Multi-modal 3D Semantic Segmentation. [Paper]
  Mingyu Yang, Jitong Lu, Hun-Seok Kim
• [RAL'25] H-PCC: Point Cloud Compression with Hybrid Mode Selection and Content Adaptive Down-sampling. [Paper]
  Bowen Liu, Yu Chen, Boyang Wang, Mingyu Yang, Hun-Seok Kim
• [ICCV'23] Efficient Computation Sharing for Multi-Task Visual Scene Understanding. [Paper] [Github]
  Sara Shoouri, Mingyu Yang, Zichen Fan, Hun-Seok Kim
• [ECCV'22] Efficient Deep Visual and Inertial Odometry with Adaptive Visual Modality Selection. [Paper] [Github]
  Mingyu Yang*, Yu Chen*, Hun-Seok Kim
• [ICASSP'22] Deep joint source-channel coding for wireless image transmission with adaptive rate control. [Paper] [Github]
  Mingyu Yang, Hun-Seok Kim
• [TCCN'22] OFDM-guided deep joint source channel coding for wireless multipath fading channels. [Paper] [Github]
  Mingyu Yang, Chenghong Bian, Hun-Seok Kim
• [Mobicom'21] mSAIL: milligram-scale multi-modal sensor platform for monarch butterfly migration tracking. [Paper]
  Inhee Lee, Roger Hsiao, Gordy Carichner, Chin-Wei Hsu, Mingyu Yang, Sara Shoouri, Katherine Ernst, Tess Carichner, Yuyang Li, Jaechan Lim, Cole R Julick, Eunseong Moon, Yi Sun, Jamie Phillips, Kristi L Montooth, Delbert A Green, Hun-Seok Kim, David Blaauw
• [ICC'21] Deep Joint Source Channel Coding for Wireless Image Transmission with OFDM. [Paper]
  Mingyu Yang, Chenghong Bian, Hun-Seok Kim
• [EUSIPCO'20] Super-Resolution Time-of-Arrival Estimation using Neural Networks. [Paper]
  Yao-Shan Hsiao*, Mingyu Yang*, Hun-Seok Kim
• [EUSIPCO'20] Migrating Monarch Butterfly Localization Using Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion Neural Networks. [Paper]
  Mingyu Yang, Roger Hsiao, Gordy Carichner, Katherine Ernst, Jaechan Lim, Delbert A Green, Inhee Lee, David Blaauw, Hun-Seok Kim
• [INFOCOM'19] ilps: Local positioning system with simultaneous localization and wireless communication. [Paper]
  Mingyu Yang, Li-Xuan Chuo, Karan Suri, Lu Liu, Hao Zheng, Hun-Seok Kim

Professional Services

I served as reviewer for the following conferences and journals:

• Conferences: NeurIPS '23'24'25; ICLR '24'25; ICML '24'25; AAAI '25'26; CVPR '24'25'26; ICCV '25; ECCV '26; ICRA '24'25; IROS '25; ICASSP '24'25
• Journals: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC); IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications (TWC); IEEE Transaction on Communications (TCOM), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN); IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN); IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL); IEEE Communications Letters (CL); IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC); IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT); IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP); IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL); IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT).

Honors & Awards

• Best 10 Graduates, Beijing University of Technology, 2017.
• China National Scholarship, Beijing University of Technology, 2016.
• President Scholarship, Beijing University of Technology, 2016.