Junwei Deng

Junwei Deng 邓珺玮

Ph.D. Student in Information Sciences · UIUC

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the School of Information, UIUC, advised by Prof. Jiaqi Ma. My research focuses on data-centric AI for LLM and foundation models, especially through principled methods of data attribution.

I will join Google Research as a Research Intern in Summer 2026.

Previously, I was a Machine Learning Engineer at Intel (2020–2023) and a Research Intern at Microsoft MSRA (2025).

📧 junweid2 AT illinois DOT edu  ·  🏡 Urbana, Illinois

🔍 Searching for full-time position — Summer 2027.

Selected Publications

(* Equal Contribution)

Junwei Deng*, Ting-Wei Li*, Shichang Zhang, Jiaqi W. Ma
TMLR 2026
Junwei Deng, Weijing Tang, Jiaqi W. Ma
ICML 2025
Junwei Deng*, Ting-Wei Li*, Shiyuan Zhang, Shixuan Liu, Yijun Pan, Hao Huang, Xinhe Wang, Pingbang Hu, Xingjian Zhang, Jiaqi W. Ma
NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight
Junwei Deng, Xirui Jiang, Shiyuan Zhang, Shichang Zhang, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Ruijiang Gao, Chris Donahue, Jiaqi W. Ma
DPFM Workshop @ ICLR 2024 Best Paper Award
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