🗨 About Me
I am Yifan Shen, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Previously, I earned my Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
I was very fortunate to be advised by Dr. Ismini Lourentzou
and work with Dr. James M. Rehg, Dr. Haohan Wang, Dr. Gang Wang, Dr. Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, Dr. Aiman Soliman at UIUC.
Additionally, I have gained valuable experience working at the Stan Z Li Lab at Westlake University.
My professional experience includes internships at Alibaba Group and Hikvision.
Research Interests:
- Multimodal LLM
- Reinforcement Learning
- Computer Vision
- LLM Agents
🧑💻 Research and Experience
- 2024.05 - 2024.08, Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China.
- 2022.05 - 2022.08, Software Engineer Intern, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China.
- 2021.05 - 2021.08, Software Engineer Intern, Hikvision, Hangzhou, China.
🌎 Service
- Reviewer for Journal: Neural Networks
- Reviewer for Conference: AAAI 2026; COLM 2025