- 2025.10: Released an automated aesthetic agent for academic video generation.
- 2025.09: One paper accepted by NeurIPS 2025 on balancing reasoning and hallucination in multimodal reasoning models.
- 2025.04: One paper accepted by ACL 2025 and one by CVPR 2025.
- 2025.02: Two papers accepted by ICLR 2025 (MSSBench and ANTRP).
- 2025.01: One paper accepted by AAAI 2025 Oral.
- Preprints: 'Presenting a Paper is an Art: Self-Improvement Aesthetic Agents for Academic Presentations' and others.
Research Experience
- No specific job positions mentioned, but has multiple research projects and publications.
Education
- 2021.09 - 2025.07: Bachelor's degree, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
- 2025.09 - 2030.06: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Advisor: Dr. Eric Xin Wang.
Background
- Research interests: trustworthy AI and the algorithmic foundations of multimodal large models, with a focus on enhancing their reasoning capabilities, reliability, and interpretability across diverse input modalities.
- Currently a First Year PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Computer Science, advised by Dr. Eric Xin Wang.
- Also in the final year as an undergraduate student at the School of Engineering, University of Liverpool.
- Open to collaboration and the exchange of ideas. Feel free to reach out at chengzhi@ucsb.edu for potential research opportunities or just to connect.
- Seeking research internship opportunities for Summer 2026.