About me

I am first-year Computer Science PhD student in Duke University supervised by Prof. Monica Agrawal. Before that, I earned my bachelor degree at University of Southern California, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Yan Liu, Prof. Jesse Thomason, Prof. Maja J Matarić.

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
• Clinical NLP
• Multimodal machine learning
• Continual Learning
• Time series analysis
• Data Mining

Education

• PhD in Computer Science

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

• Diagnosing our datasets: How does my language model learn clinical information? Furong Jia, David Sontag, Monica Agrawal
  6th Annual Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL 2025)
• 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)
• 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)
• I2I: Initializing Adapters with Improvised Knowledge Tejas Srinivasan, Furong Jia, Mohammad Rostami, Jesse Thomason
  Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) 2023

More details are under Publications

Teaching experience

• Teaching Assistant for CS 290: Intro. Applied Machine Learning at Duke University (Spring 2025)
• Course Producer for ITP 104: Web Publishing at USC (Fall 2021 - Spring 2024)
• Course Producer for CSCI 270: Introduction to Algorithms and the Theory of Computing at USC (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

Contact

• Current school email: flora.jia ‘at’ duke ‘dot’ edu
• Personal email: jiafurong2002 ‘at’ gmail ‘dot’ com