Here is Xuejun Zhang. I am a senior double majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Data Science at University of Michigan. I am an undergraduate research assistant in SLED Research Lab advised by Professor Joyce Chai.

My research explores the fundamental question of whether artificial intelligence can achieve true understanding, with a focus on multimodal learning and natural language processing (NLP). I am particularly interested in:

  1. Evaluation of Multimodal Understanding: Developing systematic evaluation methodologies to expose limitations in how models process and integrate information across modalities.
  2. Alignment and Model Capabilities: Investigating methods for aligning models toward different forms of understanding while preserving their core capabilities.
  3. Mechanistic Interpretability: Analyzing the internal mechanisms of neural networks to understand how they construct representations and process multimodal information.

Iโ€™m actively seeking a PhD position starting in Fall 2025!

๐Ÿ“„ CV
๐Ÿ“ Research Statement

๐Ÿ”ฅ News

  • 2024.06: ย ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ Our new work โ€œMulti-Object Hallucination in Vision-Language Modelsโ€ is accepted by ALVR@ACL 2024 and is now on arxiv!**
    Click here to read the paper on arxiv
  • 2024.09: ย ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ โ€œMulti-Object Hallucination in Vision-Language Modelsโ€ is accepted by NeurIPS 2024!

๐Ÿ“ Publications

NeurIPS 2024
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Multi-Object Hallucination in Vision-Language Models

Xuweiyi Chen*, Ziqiao Ma*, Xuejun Zhang*, Sihan Xu, Shengyi Qian, Jianing Yang, David F. Fouhey, Joyce Chai

๐ŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • 2022.11: First Place in Tennis Team Event at the 49th Shanghai Jiao Tong University Sports Meet
  • 2022.12: 2021-2022 Academic Year Merit Scholarship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 2023.5: Outstanding Winner and AMS Award in Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling
  • 2023.5: Runner-up in Tennis Team Event at the 2023 Shanghai Jiao Tong University General Cup
  • 2023.7: Future Technology Taihu Scholarship
  • 2023.12: Deanโ€™s Honor List & University Honors
  • 2024.5: Deanโ€™s Honor List & University Honors (Every semester at Umich)
  • 2024.10: NeurIPS 2024 Scholar Award

๐Ÿ“– Educations

  • 2021.09 - 2025.06 (now): Shanghai Jiaotong University.
  • 2023.08 - 2025.05 (now): University of Michigan.

๐Ÿ’ป Positions and Public Service

  • 2022.08-2022.12: Teaching Assistant of Academic Writing.
  • 2022.02-Present: Advisor of UMJI Advising Center
  • Reviewer of ARR
  • Reviewer of ICLR2025


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