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An Assistant Professor at UC San Diego who directs Z Lab and is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Inco AI.
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Feb 2026 — Jun 2026
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DFlash Speeds Up Speculative Decoding
Z-LabannouncementpositiveFeb 9, 2026
DFlash achieves up to 6× lossless speedup for LLM inference using block diffusion for speculative decoding, nearly 2.5× faster than EAGLE-3 state-of-the-art.
“Author of "DFlash Speeds Up Speculative Decoding" in Z-Lab”
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DFlash and Spec V2 Decoding
LMSYSpositiveJun 16, 2026
“Member of Z Lab team that developed DFlash speculative decoding technology for improving LLM inference performance.”
FlashDrive: Flash Vision-Language-Action Inference For Autonomous Driving
Z-Lab AIpositiveApr 21, 2026
“Co-author of FlashDrive research on optimizing VLA inference for autonomous driving.”