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Basics

Name Can Jin
Label Ph.D Student@Rutgers University
Email can.jin@rutgers.edu
Phone (908) 202-5264
Url https://jincan333.github.io/
Summary I'm a Computer Science Ph.D. student, starting in Fall 2024 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, under the guidance of Professor Dimitris N. Metaxas. My research interests include Large Foundation Models, Efficient AI, and AI Agents.

Work

  • 2025.06 - 2025.09

    San Jose / Remote, CA

    Research Scientist Intern
    Adobe Incorporated
    Large Foundation Models Pretraining
    • Identify critical limitations in existing Top-p routing for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), specifically regarding uncontrolled sparsity and sensitivity to hyperparameter selection.
    • Propose DTop-p MoE, a dynamic routing scheme that learns the probability threshold via a PI controller, introducing dynamic routing normalization to ensure expert diversity.
    • Demonstrate through comprehensive NLP and CV experiments that DTop-p consistently outperforms Top-k and Top-p MoE across varying expert granularities, expert capacities, model sizes, and dataset sizes.
  • 2023.01 - 2023.12

    Remote

    Research Intern
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Efficient AI
    • Conduct a pilot study on post-pruning visual prompts, revealing its inefficacy in improving the performance of well-fine-tuned sparse vision models.
    • Develop VPNs, a novel data-model co-design paradigm that simultaneously optimizes weight masks and visual prompts for efficient sparse vision models.
    • Achieve state-of-the-art efficiency-performance trade-offs across diverse datasets, architectures, and pruning regimes (LTH, OMP, GraSP, SNIP, SynFlow, HYDRA, and BiP), validated by extensive empirical results.
  • 2020.07 - 2023.08

    Shanghai, China

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Meituan Dianping Corporation
    Sales Forecasting and Time Forecasting
    • Sales Forecasting: Developed XGBoost and DNN models with quantile prediction to forecast SKU sales, increasing prediction accuracy by 4% (92% → 96%) and optimizing inventory management.
    • Time Forecasting: Constructed Attention-based DNNs to estimate warehouse task duration, improving accuracy by 9% (74% → 83%) and significantly reducing labor expenditures and heightening workforce efficiency.

Education

  • 2024.08 - Present

    New Brunswick, NJ

    Ph.D. Candidate
    Rutgers University
    Computer Science
    • Pretraining/Posttraining/Inference of Large Foundation Models
    • Efficient AI
    • AI Agents
  • 2018.09 - 2020.07

    Hefei, China

    Master of Science
    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
    Mathematics
    • Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs)
  • 2014.09 - 2018.07

    Hefei, China

    Bachelor of Science
    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
    Mathematics
    • Probability Theory
    • Random Processes
    • Dynamical Systems

Awards

Skills

Languages & Tools
Python
PyTorch
C/C++
SQL
Git
Slurm
Docker
Cursor
VS Code
RStudio
MATLAB

Languages

English
Fluent
Chinese
Native speaker

Interests

Large Foundation Models
Pretraining
Posttraining
Inference
Generalization
Reasoning
Efficient AI
Model Compression
Distillation
Pruning
Prompting
AI Agents
Multi-agent Systems
Reinforcement Learning

Volunteer

  • 2024.09 - Present
    Teaching Assistant
    Rutgers University
    CS534: Computer Vision (Spring 2025), CS210: Data Management for Data Science (Fall 2024), CS211: Computer Architecture (Fall 2025)
  • Reviewer
    Journal Reviewer
    Alexandria Engineering Journal, Information Fusion, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing
  • Reviewer
    Conference Reviewer
    NeurIPS 2025, CVPR 2025/2026, ICLR 2025, AAAI 2026, ICML 2024