Shiyuan Sean Zhang
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Hi! I am Shiyuan (Sean) Zhang, a Visiting Research Assistant at the University of Southern California, with guidance of Prof. Jieyu Zhao. I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Statistics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, worked closely with Prof. Jiaqi Ma. My research interest focus on data-centric machine learning (e.g., data attribution), trustworthy NLP, LLM for recommendations, and vision-language models.
Outside of academics, I enjoy exploring trading, where I find the unpredictability of the markets both humbling and exhilarating. I also share my quiet late nights with Lulu, a white rag who has been a silent witness to many of my coding sessions and research explorations.
News
| 2025-05 | ArXived a new preprint. |
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| 2025-05 | Compeleted my Master’s degree in Computer Science from UIUC! Grateful for all the guidance and support throughout this journey. |
| 2025-05 | Released a new preprint: TimeCausality. This paper proposes a benchmark to evaluate the temporal reasoning ability of VLMs. |
| 2024-10 | One paper has been accepted to PACLIC 2024 as ORAL presentation! |
| 2024-09 | Our paper dattri: A Library for Efficient Data Attribution has been accepted as a Spotlight Paper at NeurIPS 2024! dattri provides a modular and scalable framework for training data attribution, supporting methods like Influence Functions, TracIn, TRAK and etc. |
| 2024-07 | One paper has been accepted to the ICML 2024 GenLaw Workshop! |
| 2023-05 | Graduated from the UIUC with a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, awarded summa cum laude. |