About

I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University, advised by Prof. Maciej A. Mazurowski. I develop foundation models and agentic AI systems that reason across images and language, use specialized tools, and adapt to complex real-world tasks.

My work spans LLM-agent optimization at Meta, in-context 3D medical image segmentation at Siemens Healthineers, and large-scale multimodal learning at Duke. I previously earned my M.S. in Computer Science at Duke, where I worked with Prof. Guillermo Sapiro, and B.S. degrees in Mathematics–Computer Science and Cognitive Science at UC San Diego, where I worked with Prof. Zhuowen Tu.

I am seeking research scientist, applied scientist, and research engineering positions starting in Summer 2027.

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Selected Work

Meta-Harness — LLM agent optimization

Improved Meta-Harness’s algorithm-evolution pipeline by evolving agent trajectories and dynamically adapting training data. Increased performance from 49% to 62% on math-solving tasks and from 68% to 71.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.

SNAIL — In-context 3D medical image segmentation

Developed a training-free support–query framework for segmenting unseen anatomy from five labeled examples, with preprocessing and evaluation infrastructure spanning 14K MRI/CT volumes. Achieved 54.9% Dice without retraining versus 56.9% for a supervised nnU-Net on AMOS CT. Co-inventor on the resulting patent-pending technology assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

MRI-CORE — MRI foundation model

Pretrained a foundation model on 7M MRI slices, improving few-shot downstream segmentation by 5 Dice points over SAM, and extended this direction toward multimodal 3D MRI and radiology-report alignment.

MMedAgent — Multimodal medical agent

Developed a multimodal agent that coordinates specialized medical tools across imaging and language tasks; published in Findings of EMNLP 2024.

Experience

Software Engineering Intern, Meta · May 2026 – Present
Worked on algorithm evolution for LLM agents, making trajectories evolvable and adapting training data to strengthen optimization signals.

AI Research Intern, Siemens Healthineers · June 2025 – August 2025
Developed SNAIL, a training-free in-context learning framework for 3D CT segmentation of unseen anatomy, resulting in patent-pending technology assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

Recent News

Earlier news * **[May 2025]** Our study of [SAM fine-tuning strategies](https://www.melba-journal.org/papers/2025:006.html) was published in *MELBA*. * **[April 2025]** [SegmentAnyBone](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841525000170) was published in *Medical Image Analysis*. * **[Dec. 2024]** The [Touchstone benchmark](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/file/1b8726b572e0dfa72793f9f6590664fd-Paper-Datasets_and_Benchmarks_Track.pdf) was published at NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks. * **[Oct. 2024]** [MMedAgent](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.510/) was published in Findings of EMNLP. * **[June 2024]** Our work on [anatomically controllable medical image generation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05210) was published at MICCAI. * **[March 2024]** [InTEnt](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024W/DEF-AI-MIA/papers/Dong_Medical_Image_Segmentation_with_InTEnt_Integrated_Entropy_Weighting_for_Single_CVPRW_2024_paper.pdf) was presented as an oral at a CVPR workshop. * **[March 2024]** Our [breast MRI segmentation model and dataset](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54048-2) were published in *Scientific Reports*. * **[March 2024]** Our work on [confidence-guided radiology report generation](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231224001450) was published in *Neurocomputing*. * **[Sep. 2023]** [SWSSL](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10766076/) was published in *IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging*. * **[Aug. 2023]** Our [SAM evaluation for medical imaging](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841523001780) was published in *Medical Image Analysis*. * **[April 2023]** Our work on [pluralistic image completion](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841523000968) was published in *Medical Image Analysis*.