About Me

I am a Master's student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego, where I work as a Graduate Research Assistant in Hao AI Lab, advised by Prof. Hao Zhang.

I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from ShanghaiTech University in June 2025, where I worked as an undergraduate researcher advised by Prof. Kewei Tu. During my undergraduate studies, I spent a semester as an exchange student at UC Berkeley.

Currently, I am working on efficient inference for video generation models at UCSD, applying quantization techniques like SVDQuant to accelerate the FastVideo project.

Research Interests

  • Efficient Machine Learning Systems
  • Long Context Modeling
  • Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models

News

Oct 2025 Started as Graduate Research Assistant at UC San Diego, working with Prof. Hao Zhang on efficient video generation.
Sep 2025 Began Master's program in Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego.
Jul 2025 Joined Alibaba Ant Group as Machine Learning Engineer and Project Leader.
Jun 2025 Graduated from ShanghaiTech University with B.Eng. in Computer Science.

Education

University of California, San Diego

Sep 2025 - Jan 2027 (Expected)

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

La Jolla, CA

University of California, Berkeley

Aug 2023 - Jan 2024

Exchange Student, EECS Department

Berkeley, CA

ShanghaiTech University

Sep 2021 - Jun 2025

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology

Shanghai, China

Publications

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Efficient Feed-Forward Network Architecture for Large Language Models

Anonymous Authors

Under Review, 2025

A novel feed-forward network architecture designed for superior performance and computational efficiency in large language models. The proposed structure demonstrates competitive performance improvements while achieving significant speedup and memory reduction compared to standard architectures.

Projects

Enhancing 3D Character Generation

Enhancing 3D Character Generation with ControlNet and LoRA

Congrong Xu, Zhanhe Shi, Minshen Zhang, Qingcheng Zhao

EECS 182/282A | Deep Neural Networks, UC Berkeley, 2023

A project exploring enhanced 3D character generation techniques using ControlNet and LoRA for improved control and quality in generative models.

CUDA/C++ Parallel Image Rendering

CUDA/C++ Parallel Image Rendering

Minshen Zhang

Personal Project, 2023

Built a C++ path tracer supporting Lambertian, metal, dielectric, and emissive materials. Implemented motion blur, depth of field, and volumetric effects. Accelerated rendering via CUDA parallelization and importance sampling, achieving ~200× speedup vs. single-threaded CPU baseline.

NERF Neural Network

NERF Neural Network

Minshen Zhang

Personal Project, 2023

Built a NERF rendering pipeline by understanding Camera Intrinsics & Extrinsics and Volumetric Rendering. Trained and validated neural model on RTX4090 using open-source multi-perspective image datasets.

Honors & Awards

2025 Outstanding Graduate of ShanghaiTech University
2024 Outstanding Student, ShanghaiTech University
2024 Teaching Assistant, CS100 Computer Programming, ShanghaiTech University
2022 Outstanding Student, ShanghaiTech University