Jianshu Zhang

Jianshu Zhang

CS PhD @ NorthwesternU 💜

About Me

Hi! I’m Jianshu Zhang (张鉴殊). I am a first-year CS Ph.D. student at Northwestern University, fortunately co-advised by Prof. Manling Li and Prof. Han Liu.

My research focuses on Multimodal Learning, Agentic AI, and Spatial Understanding.

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

News

  • 2025.06:   MultiVerse has been accepted by ICCV 2025.
  • 2025.06:   🎓 I obtained my Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree and selected as Outstanding Undergraduate.
  • 2025.05:   VLM2-Bench has been accepted by ACL 2025 (Main) and Bridge-Coder has been accepted by ACL 2025 (Findings).
  • 2025.05:   I won the Lei Jun Computer Breakthrough Award (50K RMB).
  • 2025.05:   CAN has been accepted by ICML 2025.
  • 2025.01:   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:   Image Textualization has been accepted by NeurIPS 2024 (D&B track).
  • 2024.09:   MLLM-Protector, FIRST have been accepted by EMNLP 2024 (Main).
  • 2024.03:   CORE has been accepted by Cogsci 2024 [Oral].
  • 2023.12:   FuzzLLM has been accepted by ICASSP 2024.

Selected Publications

Full list → Google Scholar.

VLM2-Bench: A Closer Look at How Well VLMs Implicitly Link Explicit Matching Visual Cues
VLM2-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*
ACL 2025 (Main)
[arXiv]  [project]
Image Textualization: An Automatic Framework for Generating Rich and Detailed Image Descriptions
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
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).
  • Outstanding Undergraduate
  • First‑Class Scholarship (ranked 1st).
  • Merit Student.

Education

  • Northwestern University (2025 - 2030)

  • Wuhan University (2021 – 2025)

  • Shenzhen Middle School (2018 – 2021)

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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. 🙏

My leisure time consists of: 🏀, 🎱, 🏓, 🏊, 🏋️, 🎸, 💤. I love coding at 12:11 every day.

Last updated: 2025‑08‑17