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Who I am
I’m Sheng Zhao (赵晟), focusing on research in visual computing and large AI models (LLM, VLM, and Diffusion Model). I am currently an intern in the AI Coding Team at ByteDance (字节跳动). Previously, I earned my Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
I will join the Department of Computer Science at University of Rochester, NY, USA as a Ph.D. student, working with Prof. Yuhao Zhu, from 26 Spring (deferred from Fall 2025 to Spring 2026 due to visa processing).
Education
Ph.D. student in Computer Science, from Spring 2026
Advisor: Professor Yuhao Zhu
2021.9 - 2025.6
B.S. in Mathematics and Physics
B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering
2024.6 - 2024.9
Research Assistant in Information Science
Advisor: Professor Michael Nebeling
Experience
2025.10 - now
Intern in CapCut, involving in the post-training (SFT, RL) of the internal general-purpose coding agent model.
2025.3 - 2025.7
Intern in CogAgent, working on data augmentation and post training (SFT) for GLM-4.5.
Additionally, I have conducted research at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Rochester, working with Professor Yukang Yan, as well as at the Department of Computer Science and Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University, under the guidance of Professor Xin Yi and Professor Bowen Zhou, respectively.
Peer-review Papers
[1]. Sheng Zhao*, Junrui Zhu*, Shuning Zhang, Xueyang Wang, Hongyi Li, Fang Yi, Xin Yi, and Hewu Li. CoordAuth: Hands-Free Two-Factor Authentication in Virtual Reality Leveraging Head-Eye Coordination.
Accepted as Conference Paper, The 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR’25). (* Equal Contribution)
[ieeevr.org][IEEE Xplore]
[2]. Xueyang Wang, Sheng Zhao, Yihe Wang, Ziyu Han, Xinge Liu, Xin Tong, and Xin Yi. Raise Your Eyebrows Higher: Facilitating Emotional Communication in Social Virtual Reality Through Region-specific Facial Expression Scaling.
Accepted, 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25).
[sigchi.org][ACM Library]
[3]. Janet Johnson, Macarena Peralta, Mansanjam Kaur, Sophia Huang, Sheng Zhao, Hannah Guan, Shwetha Rajaram, and Michael Nebeling. Exploring Collaborative GenAI Agents in Synchronous Group Settings: Eliciting Team Perceptions and Design Considerations for the Future of Work.
Accepted, The 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW’25).
[Arxiv]
Service
Reviewer: IMWUT 2024; OzCHI 2025; CHI LBW 2025; ICWSM 2025; DIS 2025; ISMAR 2025; VR 2025, 2026; CHI 2025, 2026
Student Volunteer: CHI 2025
Hobbies
- 🎵 Favorite musicians: Stefanie Sun (孙燕姿) and Jay Chou (周杰伦).
- 📚 Favorite book: Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦).
- 🚴♂️ Passionate about outdoor activities and proud member of the Tsinghua Cycling Team. Strava account here