Hi there! I’m Zhenhailong Wang (王镇海龙). I am a second year Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) advised by Prof. Heng Ji. Before that, I got my M.S. in Computer Science and Civil Engineering from UIUC and B.S. from Zhejiang University.
My research interest lies in the perception and reasoning of large multimodal models. For my most recent publications, please check my Google Scholar. I have also been actively involved in several multi-institute research efforts including ECOLE, KAIROS, and AIDA.
Education
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2023 - Present; Advisor: Prof. Heng Ji
- M.S. in Computer Science, 2021 - 2023; Advisor: Prof. Heng Ji
- M.S. in Civil Engineering, 2019 - 2021; Advisor: Prof. Mani Golparvar-Fard
- GPA: 3.98/4.0
- Zhejiang University
- B.S. in Civil Engineering, 2016 - 2020
- GPA: 3.92/4.0
- Zhejiang Province Government Scholarship (<2%)
- Acadamic Scholarship (<8%)
Selected Publication
Visually Descriptive Language Model for Vector Graphics Reasoning [Paper] [Project Page]
Zhenhailong Wang, Joy Hsu, Xingyao Wang, Kuan-Hao Huang, Manling Li, Jiajun Wu, Heng Ji
under reviewDo LVLMs Understand Charts? Analyzing and Correcting Factual Errors in Chart Captioning [Paper] [Project Page]
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Mingyang Zhou, Hou Pong Chan, Yi R. Fung, Zhenhailong Wang, Lingyu Zhang, Shih-Fu Chang, Heng Ji
ACL 2024 FindingsUnleashing Cognitive Synergy in Large Language Models: A Task-Solving Agent through Multi-Persona Self-Collaboration [Paper] [Code]
Zhenhailong Wang, Shaoguang Mao, Wenshan Wu, Tao Ge, Furu Wei, Heng Ji
NAACL 2024Paxion: Patching Action Knowledge in Video-Language Foundation Models [Paper] [Code]
Zhenhailong Wang, Ansel Blume, Sha Li, Genglin Liu, Jaemin Cho, Zineng Tang, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji
NeurIPS 2023 SpotlightRCOT: Detecting and Rectifying Factual Inconsistency in Reasoning by Reversing Chain-of-Thought [Paper]
Tianci Xue, Ziqi Wang, Zhenhailong Wang, Chi Han, Pengfei Yu, Heng Ji
Arxiv preprintZemi: Learning Zero-Shot Semi-Parametric Language Models from Multiple Tasks [Paper] [Code]
Zhenhailong Wang, Xiaoman Pan, Dian Yu, Dong Yu, Jianshu Chen, Heng Ji
ACL 2023 FindingsA Language First Approach for Procedural Planning [Paper]
Jiateng Liu, Sha Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Manling Li and Heng Ji
ACL 2023 FindingsLanguage Models with Image Descriptors are Strong Few-Shot Video-Language Learners [Paper][Video] [Code]
Zhenhailong Wang, Manling Li, Ruochen Xu, Luowei Zhou, Jie Lei, Xudong Lin, Shuohang Wang, Ziyi Yang, Chenguang Zhu, Derek Hoiem, Shih-Fu Chang, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji
NeurIPS 2022NewsClaims: A New Benchmark for Claim Detection from News with Background Knowledge [Paper] [Code]
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Sai Chetan, Zhenhailong Wang, Yi R. Fung, Kathryn Conger, Ahmed Elsayed, Martha Palmer, Preslav Nakov, Eduard Hovy, Kevin Small, Heng Ji
EMNLP 2022
Open Vocabulary Electroencephalography-To-Text Decoding and Zero-shot Sentiment Classification [PDF] [Code]
Zhenhailong Wang, Heng Ji
AAAI 2022The Future is not One-dimensional: Complex Event Schema Induction by Graph Modeling for Event Prediction [Paper] [Code]
Manling Li, Sha Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Lifu Huang, Kyunghyun Cho, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han and Clare Voss
EMNLP 2021
Experience
- 06/2024 - present, Salesforce AI Research
- Research Intern
- Mentor: Senthil Purushwalkam, Congying Xia, Ran Xu.
- Focus: Visual Tokenization, Generative Models
- 05/2023 - 08/2023, Microsoft Research Asia
- Research Intern
- Mentor: Tao Ge, Shaoguang Mao, Wenshan Wu.
- Focus: Large language models, Cognitive Synergy
- 05/2022 - 08/2022, Tencent AI Lab
- Research Intern
- Mentor: Xiaoman Pan, Dian Yu, Jianshu Chen.
- Focus: Zero-shot semi-parametric language models
- 01/2022 - 05/2022, Microsoft Research
- Collaboration on project VidIL
- Working with Ruochen Xu, Luowei Zhou, Shuohang Wang, Ziyi Yang, Chenguang Zhu.
- 07/2020 - Present, BLENDER Lab
- Graduate Research Assistant
- Advisor: Prof. Heng Ji
- Focus: Information Extraction and Multimodal Models
- 09/2019 - 08/2020, RAAMAC Lab
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
- Advisor: Prof. Mani Golparvar-Fard
- Focus: Autonomous construction performance monitoring
Invited Talk
- 12/6/2022: Microsoft Research NLP PhD Student Invited Talk (Knowledge and Language Team)
- 2/16/2023: AI-Time Neurips 2022 Event
- 3/9/2024: LLM and AI Agent Reading Group
Miscellaneous
- A short film written and directed by me, ft.ITP (dialogue in Chinese :)