Yonggan Fu obtained his PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2025. Prior to that, he received his Bachelor's degree with a dual major in Applied Physics and Computer Science from the School of The Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2019. He is a recipient of IBM PhD Fellowship and was selected as Machine Learning and Systems Rising Stars 2023.
His research focuses on democratizing cutting-edge AI technology on everyday devices by developing efficient foundation models. His research work has been featured as spotlight papers at ICLR (2025 & 2021 & 2021 & 2020), an oral paper at ECCV (2024), and selected as an IEEE Micro Top Pick (2023).