Sheng Zhang

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Maryland College Park advised by Prof. Heng Huang. Prior to this, I graduated from and work as a graduate assistant at MBZUAI (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of AI), where I was fortunate to closely work with and advised by excellent professors (Prof. Salman Khan, Prof. Zhiqiang Shen, Prof. Kun Zhang, Prof. Fahad Khan) and brilliant PostDocs (Dr. Guangyi Chen, Dr. Muzammal Naseer). I completed my undergraduate studies in Software Engineering at Tongji University in China.

My current research interests lie in generalizing multimodal foundation models to an open world, primarily focusing on visual concepts, representation learning, vision-language reasoning, and zero-shot alignment. Besides, I am also interested in embodied vision tasks.

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Research
PromptCAL: Contrastive Affinity Learning via Auxiliary Prompts for Generalized Novel Category Discovery
Sheng Zhang, Salman Khan, Zhiqiang Shen, Muzammal Naseer, Guangyi Chen, Fahad Khan
CVPR, 2023
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Towards Realistic Zero-Shot Classification via Self Structural Semantic Alignment
Sheng Zhang, Muzammal Naseer, Guangyi Chen, Zhiqiang Shen, Salman Khan, Kun Zhang, Fahad Khan
AAAI, 2024 ( Oral Presentation )
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Academic Services

Reviewer for ICLR 2025

Reviewer for NIPS 2024 ( Registration Awards, Top 8% Reviewer )

Volunteer at AAAI 2024

Reviewer for CVPR 2024

Reviewer for ACM Computing Surveys 2023

Reviewer for AISTATS 2024

Reviewer for ICCV-Workshop 2023

Volunteer at EMNLP 2023