I am a 1st year MS/PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at UW-Madison, supervised by Professor Yong Jae Lee, during which I also enjoyed the mentorship from Mu Cai. My research interest is developing generalistic large multimodal models with strong capabilities across many tasks.
I obtained my Bachlor's degree at UW-Madison in May 2024, double-majoring in Computer Sciences (with Honors in the Major) and Data Science. From Fall 2023 to Spring 2024, I was able to work in Professor Yong Jae Lee's lab to complete my senior honors thesis. During May-Aug 2023, I worked at State Farm as a Software Engineer/Data Analyst Intern. Before that, I enjoyed the opportunity to work with Professor Jonathan Aldrich from CMU during a summer research camp in Shanghai in 2019, who kickstarted my research experience.
I am actively looking for a research internship position for Summer 2025! Please contact me if you're interested.
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Jianrui Zhang*, Mu Cai*, Yong Jae Lee
arXiv, 2024
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Jianrui Zhang*, Mu Cai*, Tengyang Xie, Yong Jae Lee
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings), 2024
Trewartha Senior Honors Thesis Research Award
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Mu Cai, Reuben Tan, Jianrui Zhang, Bocheng Zou, Kai Zhang, Feng Yao, Fangrui Zhu, Jing Gu,
Yiwu Zhong, Yuzhang Shang, Yao Dou, Jaden Park, Jianfeng Gao^, Yong Jae Lee^, Jianwei Yang^
arXiv, 2024
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Bocheng Zou*, Mu Cai*, Jianrui Zhang, Yong Jae Lee
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Main), 2024
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Yupeng Xi, Jianrui Zhang, Furi Xiang, (Jonathan Aldrich)
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (JSEA), 2019, 12, 393-405
I was born in Shanghai, China, yet I have only been to around 5 other Chinese cities throughout my first 18 years of living, until I left China for the US. I have in fact been to far more cities abroad than in China.
I am very interested in history and geopolitics, partly related to my passion for grand strategy games such as Civilization, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Victoria, and Stellaris. This also makes me fascinate the many cities with rich histories and fuels me to travel around the world.
I also enjoy a wide variety of manga, anime, and visual novels. Thanks to this hobby, I became passionate about the Japanese language and culture, making me a trilingual (in Chinese, English, and Japanese).