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-Welcome! I am an incoming Ph.D. student starting at 2024 Fall in [Electrical and Computer Engineering Department](https://ece.illinois.edu/) at [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign](https://illinois.edu/), where my advisor is Prof. [Narendra Ahuja](https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=dY7OSl0AAAAJ&hl=en). Before that, I was fortunate to work with [Volodymyr Kindratenko](https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/kindrtnk) during my master's program at UIUC.
+Welcome! I am a first-year Ph.D. student (08/2024 - ) in [Electrical and Computer Engineering Department](https://ece.illinois.edu/) at [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign](https://illinois.edu/), where my advisor is Prof. [Narendra Ahuja](https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=dY7OSl0AAAAJ&hl=en). Before that, I was fortunate to work with [Volodymyr Kindratenko](https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/kindrtnk) during my master's program at UIUC.
 
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