Zihan Wang
Scholar

Zihan Wang

Google Scholar ID: Sz2BfA8AAAAJ
Northwestern University
Foundation ModelsMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
854
 
H-index
7
 
i10-index
7
 
Publications
13
 
Co-authors
16
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers such as VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents and Spatial Mental Modeling from Limited Views. Recipient of the Baosteel Outstanding Student Award 2023.
Research Experience
  • Involved in the DeepSeek project, developing Expert-Specialized Fine-Tuning (ESFT); served as a student researcher at UIUC Blender Lab.
Education
  • Currently pursuing a PhD at Northwestern University, advised by Manling Li.
Background
  • CS PhD student, with research interests in the autonomy, efficiency, and long-context understanding of foundation models.
Miscellany
  • Interests include robotics, small models, and reinforcement learning.