CV

Education

  • 2024 - X
    Ph.D. in Computer science
    University of Minnesota
    • Advised by Prof. Ju Sun and Prof. Aryan Deshwal.
    • Mentored by Dr. James Zhu (Zscaler) and Dr. Somdeb Sarkhel (Adobe Research).
  • 2022 - 2024
    M.S. in Computer and Information Science
    University of Pennsylvania
    • Advised by Prof. Mingmin Zhao.
    • Leaving Ph.D. with Master's.
  • 2018 - 2021
    B.S. in Computer Science
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    • Advised by Prof. Ju Sun and Prof. Shashi Shekhar.
    • Mentored by Dr. Feng Yang (Google Research) and Dr. Myungjin Lee (Cisco Research).
    • Closely collaborated with Prof. Christopher Tignanelli (UMN Med).

Experience

  • 2026
    Research Scientist Intern
    Adobe Research
    • AI Safety for agentic memory in self-improving agents, hosted by Somdeb Sarkhel.
  • 2025-
    Founding Engineer
    Stealth
  • 2025
    Research Engineer Intern
    Endeavor AI
    • RL + Agent.
  • 2025
    Student Researcher
    Zscaler
    • Robust and efficient Text2SQL system at scale hosted by James Zhu.
  • 2024
    Machine Learning Engineering Intern
    Zscaler
    • Multi-agent LLM project hosted by James Zhu.
  • 2023-2024
    Advisor
    Xylo AI
    • Data generation project hosted by Roger Lam, Chief Technology Officer at Xylo AI.
  • 2022
    Research Intern
    Cisco Research
    • Federated Learning project hosted by Myungjin Lee.
  • 2021-2022
    Research Fellow
    Cisco Research

Honors and Awards

Teaching

  • Fall 2024
    Head Teaching Assistant
    CSCI 5525 Machine Learning Theory, University of Minnesota
  • Fall 2021
    Teaching Assistant
    CSCI 2033 Elementary Computation Linear Algebra, University of Minnesota
  • Spring 2021
    Teaching Assistant
    CSCI 2011 Discrete Structures of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
  • Fall 2020
    Teaching Assistant
    CSCI 2011 Discrete Structures of Computer Science, University of Minnesota

Professional Services

  • Reviewer
    • Conference: AAAI 2027 (4), NeurIPS 2026 (4), ICML 2026 (5), CVPR 2026 (1), ICLR 2026 (1), CVPR 2025 (3), AAAI 2025 (6), UAI 2024 (5), MICCAI 2024 (4), CVPR 2024 (4)
    • Journal: MURAJ
  • Organizer
  • Judge
    • OpenAI Custom GPT Hackathon in Twin Cities (Sep. 2025)

Patents

Pub. No. US 2026/0072908 A1 Gaoxiang Luo, Zixu Zhu, Kevin Pappas, Charles Drummond-Hay, Rahavan Raman. Query System using Multiple AI Agents for Text-to-SQL and Text-to-Python. Filed during internship at Zscaler.
Pub. No. US 2026/0219387 A1 Mingmin Zhao, Gaoxiang Luo, Yifei Liu, Haowen Lai. Methods, Systems, and Computer Readable Media for Providing 3D Imaging Using Radio Frequencies. Filed during PhD program at UPenn.
Pub. No. US 2024/0256890 A1 Myungjin Lee, Dhruv Garg, Gaoxiang Luo, Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella. Adaptively Configuring Resources in Federated Learning Systems. Filed during internship at Cisco Research.
Pub. No. US 2023/0385708 A1 Myungjin Lee, Gaoxiang Luo, Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella. Reconciling Computing Infrastructure and Data in Federated Learning. Filed during internship at Cisco Research.