About me

I am a first-year Computer Science PhD student in Duke University. I graduated from University of Southern California with a BS in Computer science & Applied and Computational Mathematics in 2024.

My primary research interests encompass the development of machine learning and data mining algorithms for handling data with unique structures like texts, multimodal, and time-series data, and tackling the distribution shift of data over time through deep learning methods. My current research focuses on natural langauge processing; multimodal machine learning; continual learning methods for distribution shifts; parameter-efficient fine-tuning on pre-trained models.

Research Interest:

• Natural Language Processing
• Multimodal machine learning
• Continual Learning
• Data Mining

Education

GPA: 3.96/4

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
• Bachelor of Science in Applied and Computational Mathematics

Research Experience

• Research Assistant at Melady Lab advised by Prof. Yan Liu
• Research Assistant at GLAMOR Lab advised by Prof. Jesse Thomason
• Research Assistant at Interaction Lab advised by Prof. Maja Matarić

More details are under CV

Publications

• I2I: Initializing Adapters with Improvised Knowledge Tejas Srinivasan, Furong Jia, Mohammad Rostami, Jesse Thomason
  Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) 2023
• GPT4MTS: Prompt-based Large Language Model for Multimodal Time-series Forecasting. Furong Jia, Kevin Zheng, Yixiang Zheng, Defu Cao, Yan Liu.
  The 14th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-24)
• TEMPO: Prompt-based Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Time Series Forecasting Defu Cao, Furong Jia, Sercan O Arik, Tomas Pfister, Yixiang Zheng, Wen Ye, Yan Liu.
  The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024)

More details are under Publications

Teaching experience

• Course Producer for ITP 104: Web Publishing (Fall 2021 - current)
• Course Producer for CSCI 270: Introduction to Algorithms and the Theory of Computing (Fall 2022)

Honors and Awards

• USC Provost’s Research Fellowship (Spring 2023 & Spring 2021)
• W.V.T. Rusch Undergraduate Engineering Honors Program
• Center for Undergraduate Research in Viterbi Engineering (CURVE) Fellowship
• Dean’s list
• Academic Achievement Award
• ABC Innovation Prize

Skills

• Python, C/C++, Java, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, R, MATLAB, LaTeX
• Pytorch, Vue.js, Angular.js, Node.js, Java Spring Boot, Firebase, Axios, Webpack, Django, Flask, REST API, Andriod Studio
• Git, Linux

Contact

• Current school email: florajia ‘at’ usc ‘dot’ edu
• Personal email: jiafurong2002 ‘at’ gmail ‘dot’ com