Shiyuan (Sean) Zhang

Hi, I’m Shiyuan Zhang (I also go by Sean), a PhD student at the University of Virginia. My research interests include data-centric machine learning, agentic AI, and reinforcement learning.

Data-Centric ML · Agentic AI · Reinforcement Learning

Shiyuan Zhang

News

2026-04 Our paper TimeCausality accepted to CVPR 2026 DataMFM Workshop! A benchmark for evaluating causal ability in the time dimension for VLMs.
2025-09 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
2025-09 New preprint "Exploring Training Data Attribution under Limited Access Constraints". [ArXiv]
2025-05 Completed my Master's degree in CS @ UIUC 🎉
2024-09 Our paper dattri accepted as a Spotlight at NeurIPS 2024!
2024-07 One paper accepted to ICML 2024 GenLaw Workshop.
2023-05 Graduated from UIUC with a B.S. in Statistics (Summa Cum Laude) 🎓