Lingyu Zhang 张凌宇

PhD Student
Duke University
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I am a PhD student at the General Robotics Lab @ Duke University, advised by Prof. Boyuan Chen. I study machine learning for decision-making and discovery. I'm especially interested in grounding natural signals in the world for scalable supervision, such as various forms of human feedback and priors embedded in foundation models.

Previously, I graduated from Columbia with an MS degree, where I worked on robust computer vision models and multimodal learning. I worked with Professor Junfeng Yang, Carl Vondrick, and Shih-Fu Chang and collaborated closely with Chengzhi Mao and Mingyang Zhou.

Prior to Columbia, I earned my Bachelor's degree at Nanjing University, China, where I did my undergraduate thesis on neural image compression, advised by Prof. Qiu Shen.

If you are a Duke master’s or undergraduate student interested in working on human evaluation of scientific ideas or open-goal navigation, feel free to reach out. Strong ML engineering skills and attention to detail are highly preferred.

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