Xaviere Fournier
Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXingyu Fu is a postdoctoral researcher focused on generative multimodal models that bridge vision and language, pursuing research on emergent abilities, evaluation, and grounded perception and reasoning. With a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania under Dan Roth and mentorship earlier from Jiawei Han at UIUC, he brings eight years of research experience and internships at Microsoft and AWS AI Labs that translated academic ideas into large-scale ML practice. His work spans multimodal LLMs and text-to-image/video generation with an emphasis on robust evaluation methods to make models better at perceiving, reasoning, and reacting in real-world settings. Based in Philadelphia and soon at Princeton, he combines rigorous theory-driven research with applied experimentation—an approach hinted at by a playful GitHub bio, “May the Force be with you,” that reflects a curiosity-driven, collaborative mindset.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (31)
evaluation10
clip10
chatgpt9
openai-api9
pytorch9
openai9
gpt9
computer-vision9
llm8
large-language-models8
gemini8
claude8
nodejs7
react6
typescript5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zeyofu/zeyofu.github.io
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:49 pushes in 4 years 5 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
zeyofu/EDL
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 7 pushes in 5 months
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