About Me

Hi! I’m Jianshu Zhang (张鉴殊). I’ll begin my PhD in Computer Science at Northwestern University in Fall 2025, advised by Prof. Manling Li and Prof. Han Liu.

My research focuses on Multimodal Learning, Agent.

I’m always keen to discuss new ideas and collaborations—feel free to reach out!

News

• 2025.05:   1 paper (CAN) has been accepted by ICML 2025.
• 2025.01:   1 paper (PVIT) has been accepted by ICLR 2025.
• 2024.11:   Dataset of PVIT-3M made it to the Top 3 Dataset downloads [November 2024] at HuggingFace🤗! （Post from X）
• 2024.10:   I won the National Scholarship (Award Rate: 0.2% national-wide).
• 2024.09:   1 paper (Image Textualization) has been accepted by NeurIPS 2024 (D&B track).
• 2024.09:   2 papers (MLLM-Protector, FIRST) have been accepted by EMNLP 2024 (Main).
• 2024.03:   1 paper (CORE) has been accepted by Cogsci 2024 [Oral].
• 2023.12:   1 paper (FuzzLLM) has been accepted by ICASSP 2024.

Selected Publications

Full publist can be found here.

VLM$^2$-Bench: A Closer Look at How Well VLMs Implicitly Link Explicit Matching Visual Cues

Jianshu Zhang†, Dongyu Yao†, Renjie Pi, Paul Pu Liang, Yi R. (May) Fung*

Under Review

[arXiv]

Image Textualization: An Automatic Framework for Generating Rich and Detailed Image Descriptions

Renjie Pi†, Jianshu Zhang†, Jipeng Zhang, Rui Pan, Zhekai Chen, Tong Zhang*

NeurIPS 2024

[arXiv]  [code]

Personalized Visual Instruction Tuning

Renjie Pi†, Jianshu Zhang†, Tianyang Han, Jipeng Zhang, Rui Pan, Tong Zhang*

ICLR 2025

[arXiv]  [code]

Awards

• National Scholarship .
• Lei Jun Computer Breakthrough Award (💰50K RMB).
• First‑Class Scholarship (ranked 1st).
• Merit Student.

Education

• Northwestern University (2025 - 2030)

• Wuhan University (2021 – 2025)

• Shenzhen Middle School (2018 – 2021)

More

Currently, I am a research intern at Tencent AI Lab (Seattle), working on Agents.

Previously, I had the privilege of working closely with Prof. Tong Zhang (UIUC), Prof. Paul Liang (MIT), and Prof. Yiren Fung (HKUST), to whom I am deeply grateful for their guidance and support. 🙏

Last updated: 2025‑05‑02