Greetings!
Zilin Xiao is a first-year CS PhD student in
VisLang lab at
Rice University, advised by
Prof. Vicente Ordonez. He was fortunated to intern at
MEGVII Research,
Microsoft.
His recent research interests lie in:
- Foundation Models for Information Retrieval and Reranking
- Language Agents and Vision Generalists
- Knowledge Grounding with Different Modalities
[GitHub] [Personal Email]
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[2023.10] Two first-authored papers are accepted to EMNLP'23 (InsGENEL for Main and
CoherentED for Findings).
[2023.08] Zilin is now a first-year PhD student at Rice.
[2022.08] Zilin joined Deep Ivy as a part-time MLE. Join
us in building a unified machine learning framework!
[2022.08] Zilin joined EdgeML Team @ Microsoft as a gap-year research intern.
[2022.04] One paper is accepted to IJCNN'22.
[2021.05] Zilin's team Data Oriented ranks top 3 out of 600+ teams in Plant Pathology
2021 - FGVC8 Kaggle competition (originally for
CVPRW2021)
[Leaderboard here]. Thank
Jiazhi's hard work!
[2020.12] Zilin has been awarded the National Scholarship for 2 successive years!
[2020.12] Zilin earned Grand Prize of the 1st MegMeet Cup Technology Innovation
Competition with the project
Hyper-Table-OCR
[2020.08] Zilin earned the Second Prize of China Software Cup: College Student
Software
Design Competition.
[2020.06] Zilin joined Prof. Yanan Sun's Lab as a research assistant,
focusing on
evolutionary neural architecture search and its related works.
Rice University
Ph.D. in Computer Science with
Prof. Vicente Ordóñez Román
Aug 2023 - Present
Sichuan University
B.Eng. in Computer Science with
Prof. Yanan Sun
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Microsoft
Residency Research Internship with
Linjun Shou, Aug. 2022 - Jun. 2023
Focus on knowledge-aware and topic-driven entity linking with retrieval-augmented
language models.
Deep Ivy Inc.
Part-time Machine Learning Engineer with
Daniel Lenton, Aug. 2022 - Nov. 2022
Develop tensor and gradient conversion modules for
Ivy among different ML Frameworks.
MEGVII Research
Research Internship with
Prof. Shuaicheng Liu, Mar. 2021 - Jul. 2021
Focus on unsupervised image alignment and 3D vision.
Machine Intelligence Lab, Sichuan University
Research Assistant with
Prof. Yanan Sun, Jun. 2020 - Jun. 2022
Focus on evolutionary neural architecture search and its related applications on
computer vision.
National Scholarship
Top 0.2% nationwide, 2019
National Scholarship
Top 0.2% nationwide, 2020
Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of Sichuan University
2022.06
Star of Computer Science, Sichuan University
2022.06
Reviewer: EMNLP 2023, ACL ARR 2024
Hobbies (Click to Expand)
Blockchain: I believe blockchain-driven technologies will eventually change the order of global
finance. Fans of Solidity Programming, Cryptocurrencies and DeFi.
Trading: Observing the market and making profits.
Law: Law trains people to think logically. Knowledge of the Criminal Laws in Mainland China.
Flight Simulator: Enjoying on Airbus A320-neo with Microsoft Flight Simulator!
