Hi! I am Zhilin (Hadlay) Zhang, a Master student in Computer Science at New York University. I obtained my Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Tongji University. Currently, I’m working as a Research Intern at Stony Brook University, advised by Prof. Chenyu You.

🎈🎈 I am actively looking for a 2026 Fall PhD position in US.

Research Interests

My research focuses on two directions:

• Multimodal Learning, especially in the context of multimodal reasoning and its application in subtasks like Visual Reasoning, Visual Question Answering and Visual Captioning.
• LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems, specifically collaborative multi-agent systems that enhance multimodal reasoning capabilities to decompose and solve complex real-world tasks, such as scientific workflows and medicine.

Latest News

• [2025-08] Our paper “PosterGen: Aesthetic-Aware Paper-to-Poster Generation via Multi-Agent LLMs” has been released! 👉 arXiv / Code / Website
• [2025-05] Started as Research Intern at Stony Brook University 🚀
• [2025-03] Two papers were accepted by IJCNN 2025.
• [2024-10] Our paper “Enhanced Textual Feature Extraction for Visual Question Answering: A Simple Convolutional Approach” is accepted by CVCI 2025 🎉

Services

• Conference Reviewer: IJCNN, ACML
• Journal Reviewer: Pattern Recognition, EAAI

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant for CS-GY 6233 Introduction to Operating Systems (Spring & Fall 25, Spring 26, NYU)