Shiyuan Sean Zhang

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.