Qilong Zhangli
PhD Candidate @ Rutgers

Brief Bio. I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, conducting research in Computer Vision and Deep Learning advised by Board of Governors Professor Dimitris N. Metaxas. Prior to this, I completed my bachelor's degree in Computer Science at UC Irvine with a specialization in Intelligent Systems.

My current research interests lie primarily in (1) diffusion models for complex scene image understanding / generation (e.g. improving T2I diffusion models' capability for text generation, personalization, etc.), (2) language-guided semantic / instance / panoptic segmentation (e.g. under multi-dataset or multi-modality settings).

617 Bowser Rd
Piscataway, NJ 08854
CBIM - Rutgers
Email: qilong.zhangli [at] gmail [dot] com
[Curriculum Vitae]

Background

Education

Sept. 2021 - Present
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Sept. 2018 - June 2021
University of California - Irvine
B.S. in Computer Science
  • Specialized in Intelligent System
  • SURP Fellowship
  • GPA: 3.85/4.0

Experience

May 2024 - Present
Generative AI, Meta, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Research Scientist Intern. Host: Dr. Arantxa Casanova
  • Text2Image Personalization with Diffusion Models
May 2023 - Nov. 2023
Generative AI, Meta, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Research Scientist Intern. Host: Dr. Praveen Krishnan
  • Diffusion Models for Scene Text Image Generation [CVPR'24]
March 2023 - May 2023
Media Analytics Team, NEC Labs America, San Jose, CA, USA
Research Intern. Host: Dr. Samuel Schulter
  • Language-driven Multi-dataset Segmentation [paper]
Sept. 2021 - Present
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Graduate Assistant. Mentored by: Prof. Dimitris N. Metaxas
March 2020 - May 2021
California Plug Load Research Center, Irvine, CA, USA
Student Researcher. Host: Dr. Michael Klopfer
  • Plug Load Energy Usage Simulator
  • Micro/nanobubble Machine
May 2020 - Sept. 2020
University of California - Irvine, CA, USA
Summer Research Fellow. Host: Dr. Raj Vyas

Selected Publications

(Please check Google Scholar for the full list of my publications.)

Presentations

Service

Teaching Assistant Reviewer