Shu Zhao
About Me
I am a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at NVIDIA. I completed my Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University, advised by Prof. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan.
Research Interests
- Search/Tool-Use Agents
- LLM Post-Training
- Vision & Language
News
- [Jan. 2026] Our paper, “MoRA: Missing Modality Low-Rank Adaptation for Visual Recognition,” was accepted at ICLR 26.
- [Dec. 2025] Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation!
- [Oct. 2025] We have released ferret, an extensible RL framework for training LLM agents with advanced search capabilities.
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- [Jun. 2025] Our paper, "HRScene: How Far Are VLMs from Effective High-Resolution Image Understanding?" was accepted at ICCV 25.
- [May 2025] One paper was accepted at ICML 2025.
- [Mar. 2025] I will be interning at NVIDIA this summer. See you in Santa Clara!
Selected Works
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ICLR
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026 -
arXiv
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ICCV
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025 -
AAAI
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025 -
CVPR
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025PDF Highlight -
ICML
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025 -
IJCAI
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021. -
ACM MM
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2020.PDF Oral Presentation
Services
Conference Reviewers
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
Teaching Assistant
Deep Learning for Computer Vision, Undergraduate, Spring 2024 Vision and Language, Graduate, Fall 2023
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