Hi, Iām Shiyuan Zhang (I also go by Sean), a PhD student at UVA. I received my B.S. and M.S. from
UIUC. My research interests include data-centric machine learning, agentic AI, and reinforcement learning.
āØ I am looking for 2027 internship opportunities. If your team is hiring, please feel free to contact me at shiyuanzhang.ml@gmail.com.
News
2026-09
New preprint: SAGE: Salient Factor Discovery and Generation with Visual Foundation Representations.
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
New survey paper on data attribution: A Survey of Data Attribution: Methods, Applications, and Evaluation in the Era of Generative AI.
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 š
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) š