Dong Wang

Dong Wang 王栋

PhD Candidate · Efficient ML · TU Graz

I am a PhD student supervised by Olga Saukh at the Embedded Learning and Sensing Systems (ELSS) Group, Institute for Technical Informatics, TU Graz, Austria. My research interests include efficient machine learning, on-device and embedded machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, efficient pre-training, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

News

Selected Publications

  1. 2026
    Cut Less, Fold More: Model Compression through the Lens of Projection Geometry
    O. Saukh, D. Wang, H. Šikić, Y. Cheng, L. Thiele
    ICLR'26International Conference on Learning Representations · accepted
  2. 2026
    FOSL: A Foldable Sparse-and-Low-Rank Method for Efficient LLM Pre-training
    D. Wang, F. Corti, Y. Cheng, O. Saukh
    CPAL'26Conference on Parsimony and Learning, Recent Spotlight Track · accepted
  3. 2026
    GRAIL: Post-hoc Compensation by Linear Reconstruction for Compressed Networks
    W. Tang, D. Wang, L. Thiele, O. Saukh
    CPAL'26Conference on Parsimony and Learning, Proceedings Track · accepted
  4. 2025
    Forget the Data and Fine-Tuning! Just Fold the Network to Compress
    D. Wang, H. Šikić, L. Thiele, O. Saukh
    ICLR'25International Conference on Learning Representations
  5. 2024
    Subspace-Configurable Networks
    D. Wang, O. Saukh, X. He, L. Thiele
    CoLLAs'24Third Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents · Oral

Software

Education

Graz University of Technology
PhD, Information and Computer Engineering
Supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Olga Saukh · Graz, Austria
Nov 2022 – Present
Uppsala University
MSc in Computer Science
Thesis: Low-latency object detection and positioning on the edge-cloud · Uppsala, Sweden
Sep 2019 – Jun 2021
Xi'an University of Science and Technology
BEng in Internet of Things
Thesis: Object detection based on GAN · Xi'an, China
Sep 2014 – Jun 2018

Experience

Ericsson
Master's Thesis Researcher
Uppsala & Lund, Sweden
Jan 2021 – Jul 2021
Baoji Machine Vision Technology
Co-Founder & Algorithm Engineer
Baoji, China
Apr 2018 – Jun 2019

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer
ICLR 2026ICML 2026NeurIPS 2026CPAL 2026

Awards

Outstanding Thesis Award
Undergraduate thesis ranked top 5% (3/61)
Xi'an University of Science and Technology
Jun 2018
2nd Prize · National Undergraduate Intelligent Internet Innovation Competition
Chinese Institute of Electronics
Jun 2017
Meritorious Winner · Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)
COMAP, USA
Apr 2017
3rd Prize · National Mobile Internet Innovation Competition
China Institute of Communications
Oct 2016
3rd Prize · National Undergraduate Intelligent Internet Innovation Competition
Chinese Institute of Electronics
Jun 2016
University Scholarship
Awarded annually for academic performance
Xi'an University of Science and Technology
2015 – 2017

Theses

Patent

Dong Wang, "Intelligent somatosensory navigation device", China Patent CN206573128U, issued Oct 20, 2017.

Intelligent Somatosensory Navigation Device (Suzaku)Intelligent Somatosensory Navigation Device (Suzaku)

Languages

EnglishFull professional proficiency
ChineseNative proficiency
GermanElementary proficiency
JapaneseElementary proficiency