Hi, I’m Norman, Renhao Zhang (张仁浩), currently a Computer Science PhD student in Autonomous Learning Laboratory at University of Massachusetts Amherst, advised by Professor Bruno Castro da Silva.

My current research mainly sits at Embodied AI, particularly, reinforcement learning and robotics. Besides, I’m also interested in multimodal learning, generative model, computer vision, and large language modal, I have ideas and projects in these areas from time to time.

I got my master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brown University, working on reinforcement learning with Prof. George Konidaris in Intelligent Robot Lab and computer graphics with Prof. Daniel Ritchie in Brown Visual Computing Group. Previously, I was cross-registered at Harvard University during 2023 fall, working on an AI in healthcare project with Prof. Finale Doshi-Velez. Before that, I got my Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Information Engineering in Dalian University of Technology, advised by Prof. Xuanheng Li on applications of RL in wireless communication settings and Prof. Shenglan Liu on computer vision.

News


  • Sept 2024: Learning to Edit Visual Programs with Self-Supervision is accepted to NeurIPS 2024! I’ll be in Vancouver for this meeting!
  • Sept 2024: Start my new role of a Phd student at UMass Amherst.
  • August 2024: I’ll attend RLC 2024 at UMass Amherst.
  • May 2024: DLPA is accepted at ICML 2024. I’ll be in Vienna attending this meeting.
  • April 2024: Graduated at Brown as an ECE master!

Education


University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA - Amherst, MA, USA

  • Degree: Ph.D. in Computer Science
  • Duration: 09/2024-04/2029 (Expected)

Harvard University - Cambridge, MA, USA

  • Cross-Registered in Computer Science (GPA: 4.0)
  • Duration: 09/2023-12/2023

Brown University - Providence, RI, USA

  • Degree: M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (GPA: 3.8)
  • Duration: 08/2022-05/2024
  • Teaching Assistant: Scientific Programming in C++, Introduction in Robotics

Dalian University of Technology - Dalian, Liaoning, China

  • Degree: B.S. in Electrical Information Engineering (GPA: 3.8)
  • Duration: 09/2018-06/2022
  • Teaching Assistant: Object Detection

Work


Dalian Hi-think Computer Technology Corp - Dalian, Liaoning, China

  • Position: Research intern, AI Lab
  • Duration: 04/2022-06/2022
  • Project: Japanese Script Recognition; Defect Detection; Deep Learning Framework Migration

Panasonic Software Development - Dalian, Liaoning, China

  • Position: Algorithm Engineer
  • Duration: 06/2021 - 07/2021
  • Project: Time and Attendance System based on face recognition

Honor


  • Outstanding Graduates, 06/2022
  • Second Prize, China Computer Design Competition, 05/2020
  • Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 09/2019