Greetings!
Zilin Xiao is a first-year CS PhD student at Rice University. He was fortunated to work at MEGVII Research,
Microsoft.
His recent research interests lie in:
[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
Blockchain: I believe blockchain-driven technologies will eventually change the order of global finance. Fans of Solidity Programming, crypto, DeFi.
Law: I believe law trains people to think logically. Knowledge of the Criminal Law of Mainland China;
Flight Simulator: Big fan of Microsoft Flight Simulator and XPlane. 200h+ flight history on A320-neo; Knowledge of taking off, Autopilot, ILS landing, Visual Approach, Air Traffic Control. Want to fly real planes in the future.