Likun Cai

Likun Cai Ph.D. Student ECE Department University of Toronto Email: cailikun007 [at] gmail [dot] com Google Scholar, Github, LinkedIn

Biography

I am currently a second year PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Ashish Khisti focusing on neural compression and machine learning. Prior to that, I obtained my Master’s degree in Computer Science from ShanghaiTech University in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Ning Cai, and my Bachelor’s degree in Spatial Information and Digital Technology from Xidian University in 2017. I have worked as a research intern at Amazon AI Lab (with Yi Zhu, Zhi Zhang & Mu Li) and Tencent GYLab (with Gang Yu).

Research Interests

• Neural compression

• Information theory

• Machine Learning

Education

• Ph.D., Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Sep. 2024 - Present

• M.S., School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Sep. 2017 - Jul. 2020

• B.E., School of Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian University, Sep. 2013 - Jul. 2017