About Me
I specialize in building performant Generative AI systems for image and audio. My work focuses on achieving low-latency, high-fidelity content synthesis and architecting the infrastructure for its planetary-scale distribution. I collaborate with Prof. Fan Lai.
News
- (Sep 18, 2025) "Toward Engineering AGI: Benchmarking the Engineering Design Capabilities of LLMs" was accepted to NeurIPS 2025!
- (Sep 12, 2024) Received the Illinois Engineering Achievement Scholarship!
Ongoing Project(s)
- SoundWeaver: Composing Complex Audio Landscapes with In-Context Caching. Collaborators: Prof. Fan Lai (UIUC), Nikhil Sarda (Google).
Publications
- Xingang Guo, …, Ayush Barik et al. "Toward Engineering AGI: Benchmarking the Engineering Design Capabilities of LLMs." (NeurIPS 2025)
Teaching
- ECE220 (Computer Systems & Programming) Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025 (Undergrad TA)
- MATH257 (Linear Algebra w/ Computational Applications) Summer 2025 (Undergrad TA)
- ECE364 (Programming Methods for Machine Learning) Fall 2025 (Undergrad TA)