Efficient AI Systems · Edge Intelligence · LLM Adaptation

Ziming (Phoenix) Dai

Ph.D. Student, City University of Hong Kong

I work on efficient, adaptive, and deployable AI systems, with a focus on federated and edge intelligence, large model customization, and industrial model enhancement under privacy, latency, and resource constraints.

Federated & Edge Intelligence LLM Adaptation Efficient Deployment Industrial AI Systems

Current Focus

My current research explores how AI models can be customized, compressed, and upgraded for real-world distributed and industrial environments while remaining efficient, robust, and practical under privacy, latency, and resource constraints.

Experience

Academic Experience

2026 - Present

City University of Hong Kong

Ph.D. Student in Data Science, advised by Prof. Zimu Zhou.

2023 - 2026

Tianjin University

M.Eng. in Computer Technology at Edge Big Bang Lab, advised by Prof. Chao Qiu and Prof. Xiaofei Wang.

2019 - 2023

Tianjin University

B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence. Awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis.

Internship Experience

2025.09 - 2026.04

Qfin Holdings (360 DigiTech)

NLP Engineer Intern, working on industrial language models and model enhancement.

2024.12 - 2025.04

Paiou Cloud Computing (Shanghai)

Algorithm Engineer Intern, working on model algorithms and applied AI systems.

2022.05 - 2022.06

Beijing Wenge Technology

Algorithm Engineer Intern, focusing on named entity recognition for low-resource languages.

Selected Publications

All publications

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