About Me

Hi! I’m a CS PhD student at Pennsylvania State University, advised by Prof. Lu Cheng. I received my M.S. degree in Computer Science from New York University, and B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from Tongji University. Previously, I was a Research Intern at Stony Brook University, advised by Prof. Chenyu You.

Research Interests

My research focuses on two directions:

World Models that learn how the world evolves to reliably predict plausible future.
Multi-Agent Systems, especially collaborative multi-agent systems that can decompose, plan on and solve multimodal real-world tasks.

[2026-08] Started my Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University. 🎉
[2026-07] One paper was accepted by ACM Multimedia 2026.
[2026-02] PosterGen was accepted by CVPR 2026 findings.
[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.

The full list of my publications is also available on my Google Scholar profile.

^* denotes equal contribution.

Zhilin Zhang^*, Xiang Zhang^*, Jiaqi Wei, Yiwei Xu, Chenyu You

CVPR 2026 (Findings)

Zhilin Zhang, Jie Wang, Zhanghao Qin, Ruiqi Zhu, Xiaoliang Gong

IJCNN 2025

Jie Wang, Yichen Wang, Zhilin Zhang, Jianhao Zeng, Kaidi Wang, Zhiyang Chen

Preprint

Journal Reviewer: Pattern Recognition, EAAI, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Conference Reviewer: WACV 2027

Teaching Assistant for CS-GY 6233 Introduction to Operating Systems (Spring & Fall 25, Spring 26)
Teaching Assistant for ICDS Rising Researcher Workshop (Fall 26)