Yuzhang Shang

About Me

[04/2025] I am an incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Florida (UCF) for Fall 2025, affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Aii). UCF@CSRankings: Computer Vision (8th), AI (46th), Overall (55th). I am actively looking for postdocs, Ph.D. students, visiting scholars/students, and master/undergraduate researchers. If you are interested in working with me, feel free to contact me via yuzhang.hire@gmail.com.

I am a final-year (2021-2025) Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology advised by Prof. Yan Yan (now at University of Illinois Chicago, UIC). During my Ph.D. journey, I was a visiting student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Prof. Yong Jae Lee (lab famous for LLaVA). I interned as a researcher at Google DeepMind working with Daniele Moro and Andrew Howard (team famous for MobileNet), and I interned as a research scientist at Cisco Research working with Gaowen Liu and Ramana Kompella.

I am awarded MLCommons Rising Star in 2025.

Research Goal: Efficient/Scalable AI

• Visual Generative Model Acceleration:
  PTQ4DM (CVPR’2023), PTQ4DiT (NeurIPS’2024), DKDM (CVPR’2025), SpeeD for Diffusion Fast Training (CVPR’2025), QuEST, E-CAR.
• Efficient (Visual, Language, and Multimodal) Large Models:
  Bi-MTDP (CVPR’2024), FBPT (ICRA’2024), PB-LLM (ICLR’2024), LLM-Viewer (Efficient LLM Survey), RPTQ, ASVD, LLaVA-PruMerge, INTP-Video-LLMs.
• Neural Network Compression:
  LONDON (ICCV’2021), CMIM (ECCV’2022), LCR-BNN (ECCV’2022), Causal-DFQ (ICCV’2023), CL-Calib (CVPR’2024).
• Efficient Training for Neural Networks:
  MIM4DD (NeurIPS’2023), DQAS (ECCV’2024), HEPrune (NeurIPS’2024), LTDD (CVPR’2025).

Before Ph.D., I worked as research assistants at Shandong University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) under the supervision of Prof. Liqiang Nie and Prof. Dan Xu, respectively. I received my bachelor’s degrees in Applied Mathematics and Economics (dual degrees) at Wuhan University.

Besides research, I am a contract photographer for Shutterstock Images and Getty Images (my portfolio).