Scholar
Yichi Zhang
Google Scholar ID: xkBBhY8AAAAJ
University of Michigan
Citations & Impact
Citations
815
H-index
11
i10-index
11
Publications
18
Co-authors
10
list available
Publications
Browse publications on Google Scholar (top-right) ↗
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Won the 1st Amazon Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge in 2023 as the team leader of SEAGULL; won the best paper award at CVPR'24 MAR Workshop; had multiple papers accepted to EMNLP 2023, CVPR 2024, etc.
Research Experience
- Worked as a visiting scholar with Professor Zhou Yu on task-oriented dialog systems in 2019; conducting multimodal research at Bytedance Seed; will join Meta Reality Labs as a Research Scientist Intern in Summer 2024, working with Dr. Shane Moon.
Education
- Bachelor's in Electronic Information Science and Technology from Tsinghua University in 2017; Master’s in Information and Communication Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2020, advised by Professor Zhijian Ou; Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2025, advised by Professor Joyce Chai.
Background
- Research interests lie at the intersection of conversational and perceptual AI, with a focus on real-time interactive systems, language grounding to visual and physical contexts, multi-modal dialog, and embodied AI.
Miscellany
- Personal motto: Never stop thinking :-)
