Greetings, my name is Mengting Ai. I am a second-year PhD Student of Information Sciences @ UIUC, advised by the fabulous Prof. Jingrui He. I also worked closely with Prof. Hanghang Tong, Prof. Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, and Prof. Yue Guo. My research focuses on Efficient ML (specifically on LLM compression), AI Ethics, AI4Science, and LLM Safety.