Zijun Zhang

Zijun Zhang

Master's student at University of California, San Diego

I’m a M.S. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Machine Learning and Data Science) at UC San Diego, where I focus on Generative AI, Multimodal Reasoning, and AI Safety. Previously, I earned my B.Eng. in Intelligent Science and Technology from Sun Yat-sen University, with a GPA of 3.8/4.0 (upper-division 4.0/4.0).

🔬 Research Interests

My research focuses on unified multimodal generative models, particularly on bridging text and image generation to achieve semantic alignment and mutual enhancement between modalities. I am also interested in AI safety and robustness, studying how large models can remain reliable and secure under adversarial or backdoor conditions.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • Merit Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University (2020–2024)

📖 Educations

  • 2024.09 - present, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Machine Learning and Data Science), UC San Diego
  • 2020.09 – 2024.06, B.Eng in Intelligent Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University

💻 Internships

  • Research Internship in Zhijian Liu’s Lab at UCSD (2025.6 – Present)
    Focused on unified generative modeling (UniGeneration), integrating vision and language with multimodal LLMs.
  • Internship at Sun Yat-sen Univeristy under Professor Xiaodan Liang (2023.10-2024.9)
    Conducted research on visual-language pretraining and representation alignment in multimodal learning.

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