Zhaofeng Sun

Zhaofeng Sun 孙照峰

I am an undergraduate in Computer Science at Tsinghua University. Since June 2026, I have been conducting research with Prof. Hao Zhang at UC San Diego’s Hao AI Lab, working on efficient language model architectures and parallel decoding.

Previously, I worked with Prof. Beidi Chen at Carnegie Mellon University and Prof. Christopher De Sa at Cornell University. At Tsinghua, I worked with Prof. Jianfei Chen and Prof. Youyou Lu.

My research focuses on making language models more capable under practical compute, latency, and memory constraints. I work across model architecture, training algorithms, and GPU systems.

Research Interests

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Selected Research

Model-preserving adaptive rounding analysis

Model-Preserving Adaptive Rounding

Albert Tseng, Zhaofeng Sun, Christopher De Sa
ICML 2026

YAQA targets full-model output error during post-training quantization. Kronecker-factored Hessian sketches reduce KL divergence by approximately 30% over GPTQ/LDLQ without adding inference overhead.

Experience

Jun 2026–Present
UC San Diego · Hao AI Lab
Research with Prof. Hao Zhang on efficient language model architectures.
May–Aug 2025
Carnegie Mellon University
Research with Prof. Beidi Chen on sparse attention and efficient RL rollouts.
Jan–May 2025
Cornell University
Research with Prof. Christopher De Sa on model-preserving quantization.
Oct–Dec 2024
Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
Research intern working on LLM inference and kernels for Ascend NPUs.
Oct 2023–Jan 2025
Tsinghua University
Research with Prof. Jianfei Chen on model compression and efficient inference.

Education

2022–2027
Expected
Tsinghua University
B.S. in Computer Science · GPA: 3.97/4.00 · Rank: 5/208
Spring 2025
Cornell University
Exchange Student in Computer Science · GPA: 4.15/4.00

Selected Honors