
Optum Technology, UnitedHealth Group
AI/ML Research Intern (PhD Level)
Hey! I am Maryam Haghifam, a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (expected graduation: December 2029), advised by Prof. Yizhou Sun. My research focuses on efficient large language model systems, particularly long-context memory, efficient inference, and agentic AI. I am interested in how LLMs can efficiently store, retrieve, and reason over long or evolving information, as well as inference techniques such as speculative decoding and multi-token prediction.
I am looking for Summer 2027 research / ML engineering internships.
EMNLP 2026 Main Conference
COLM 2026 Workshop – Context Beyond the Window: Persistent Knowledge in Language Models
TechRxiv preprint, 2026

Optum Technology, UnitedHealth Group
AI/ML Research Intern (PhD Level)

Robust and Interpretable Machine Learning Lab
Machine Learning Researcher

Computer Vision and AI Researcher

University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Computer Science — Ph.D. in Computer Science
Supervisor: Prof. Yizhou Sun

Department of Computer Science — M.Sc. in Computer Science
Supervisors: Prof. Gennady Pekhimenko and Prof. Nandita Vijaykumar

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering — B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Control), Minor in Computer Engineering