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Education, research and internship experience, honors, and skills.

Education

University of Michigan · Ph.D. · 2026 — Present

Ph.D. student, advised by Prof. Qing Qu.

University of Michigan · M.S. in ECE · 2024 — 2026

Signal, Image Processing & Machine Learning. GPA: 4.00 / 4.00.

UESTC · B.E. in Electronic Information Engineering · 2020 — 2024

GPA: 3.76 / 4.00; major GPA: 3.98 / 4.00; major rank: 2 / 42.

Research & Experience

Graduate Research Assistant · University of Michigan · 2024.09 — Present

Advised by Prof. Qing Qu.

  • Studied generalization degradation and memorization under recursive training on synthetic data; related work received a NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight.
  • Investigated the connection between data entropy and generalization, and developed data selection methods to mitigate model collapse.
  • Worked on diffusion-based Sim2Real adaptation for human detection in UAV imagery.

AIGC Research Intern · Shengshu AI · 2024.04 — 2024.07

Beijing, China.

  • Researched identity-consistent image and video generation, temporal attention, and diffusion representation alignment.

Research Intern · Baidu Research · 2023.11 — 2024.04

Beijing, China.

  • Worked on video editing with Diffusion Transformers and multimodal conditioning for U-ViT.
  • Built a poster dataset and fine-tuned LLaVA with DPO.
  • Conducted image-outpainting experiments for VIP, published at ACCV 2024.

Teaching Assistant · UESTC · 2023.08 — 2024.02

Course 3036: AI & Machine Learning.

  • Led weekly labs, designed assignments, and mentored 90 students.

Honors & Awards

  • 2023.12 · Third Prize, Greater Bay Area (Huangpu) International Algorithm Competition
  • 2023, 2022, 2021 · UESTC Academic Merit Scholarship
  • 2023.09 · UESTC Most Contributive Student Scholarship
  • 2022.09 · Third Prize, National College Student Embedded Systems Design Contest

Skills

Python · C / C++ · MATLAB · PyTorch · Diffusers · Hugging Face · OpenCV · scikit-learn · Git · Docker · SLURM · Bash

Contact

wymond@umich.edu · GitHub · OpenReview · Google Scholar