Earned a Ph.D. in machine learning from Duke University, where his doctoral research focused on deep generative models under the guidance of Prof. Lawrence Carin.

Co-created and released LLaVA (Large Language-and-Vision Assistant), a multimodal model with capabilities approaching GPT-4, through the 'Visual Instruction Tuning' paper.

Joined Elon Musk's xAI as a Director Engineer, contributing to the development of advanced AI models like Grok.

Joined Meta's 'Superintelligence' team as a Research Scientist, focusing on building advanced artificial general intelligence.