Shizhe Diao is a research scientist at NVIDIA Learning and Perception Research Group. He completed his Ph.D. at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Previously, He was a visiting scholar at BLENDER LAB@UIUC. He is passionate about the research in pre-training, efficient-tuning, and alignment of efficient and small language models. He received the Outstanding Paper award at NAACL 2024 and the Best Demo Paper award at NAACL 2024. He joined NVIDIA Research in June 2024. Preferred name: Shizhe Diao