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Yuzhang Shang

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Biography

Yuzhang Shang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Florida (UCF), affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Aii). 

Shang earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology (2021-2025) advised by Prof. Yan Yan (now at University of Illinois Chicago, UIC). During his Ph.D. journey, Shang was awarded MLCommons Rising Star in 2025. Shang was a visiting student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted by Prof. Yong Jae Lee (lab famous for LLaVA). He interned as a researcher at Google DeepMind working with Daniele Moro and Andrew Howard (team famous for MobileNet), and interned as a research scientist at Cisco Research working with Gaowen Liu and Ramana Kompella. Before earning his Ph.D., Shang worked as research assistants at Shandong University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) under the supervision of Prof. Liqiang Nie and Prof. Dan Xu, respectively. He received my bachelor’s degrees in Applied Mathematics and Economics (dual degrees) at Wuhan University. 

 

 

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College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department
Computer Science

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