Sheng Zhao

Sheng Zhao

1st-year Ph.D. student @ University of Rochester

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Who I am

I am Sheng Zhao (赵晟), a 1st-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Rochester, NY, USA, advised by Prof. Yuhao Zhu. My research focuses on visual computing. For more information, please refer to my CV.

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Educational Background

University of Rochester
Spring 2026 - Present
1st-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science
Advisor: Professor Yuhao Zhu
Tsinghua University
Sep 2021 - Jun 2025
B.S. in Mathematics and Physics
B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering

Additionally, I have conducted research as a Research Assistant at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the supervision of Professor Michael Nebeling; at the Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, under the supervision of Professor Yukang Yan; and at Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Professor Bowen Zhou and Professor Xin Yi.

Industrial Experience

ByteDance (字节跳动)
Oct 2025 - Jan 2026
Intern improving the front-end coding capabilities of agentic model (Seed-1.6-Code, etc.) via SFT and RL.
Z.ai (智谱 AI)
Mar 2025 - Jul 2025
Intern improving GLM-4.5v's GUI web-agent capabilities via SFT and RL.

Publications

Sheng Zhao*, Junrui Zhu*, Shuning Zhang, Xueyang Wang, Hongyi Li, Fang Yi, Xin Yi, Hewu Li (* Equal Contribution)
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR’25), 2025 · Accepted as Conference Paper
Weikai Lin, Sheng Zhao, Ian Ross, Carl Marshall, Sushant Kondguli, Yuhao Zhu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (ISMAR Journal Track, TVCG’26), 2026 · Accepted
Xueyang Wang, Sheng Zhao, Yihe Wang, Ziyu Han, Xinge Liu, Xin Tong, Xin Yi
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25), 2025 · Accepted
Janet Johnson, Macarena Peralta, Mansanjam Kaur, Sophia Huang, Sheng Zhao, Hannah Guan, Shwetha Rajaram, Michael Nebeling
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW’25), 2025 · Accepted

Service

Reviewer: IMWUT 2024; 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 a proud member of the Tsinghua Cycling Team. Strava account here.