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Basics

Name Zhen Zhu
Label Final-year CS Ph.D Candidate
Email zhenzhu4@illinois.edu
Website https://zzhu.vision
Summary A final-year CS Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), specializing in building intelligent systems for continual perception, recognition, understanding, and prediction. Research interests include efficient continual learning, personal AI agents, image generation, and the emerging properties of large models. Strong background in fundamental vision tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation.

Education

  • 2021.01 - 2025.05
    Ph.D.
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
    Computer Science
  • 2017.09 - 2020.06
    Master
    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
    Computer Vision and Deep Learning
  • 2013.09 - 2017.06
    Bachelor of Engineering
    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
    Engineering

Publications

Work

  • 2024.05 - 2024.08
    Research Intern
    Google Inc.
    Worked on text-to-video generation projects.
  • 2023.05 - 2023.08
    Research Scientist Intern
    Adobe Inc.
    Bridged LLMs and Diffusion models to create a dynamic system for automatic and continual data generation to improve discriminative task performance.
  • 2022.05 - 2022.08
    Research Scientist Intern
    Adobe Inc.
    Created a unified GAN framework for generating multiple image analyses with RGB images simultaneously and demonstrated the model's effectiveness in generating datasets for downstream tasks such as depth and normal estimation. Paper accepted to WACV 2024.
    • Paper accepted to WACV 2024
  • 2020.08 - 2020.11
    Research Assistant
    ShanghaiTech
    Engaged in human novel view synthesis and hair neural rendering under the supervision of Prof. Jingyi Yu. A paper accepted to ACM MM.
    • Paper accepted to ACM MM

Awards