CV

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Davis, 2025 - Present
- Advisor: Dr. Lifu Huang
Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2023 - 2024 (Transferred to UC Davis)
- Advisor: Dr. Lifu Huang
M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University, 2020 - 2022
- GPA: 3.74/4.0
B.S. in Financial Mathematics, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2015 - 2019
- GPA: 3.76/4.0

Research Intern @ Adobe Research
Host: Wanrong Zhu
June 2025 - Nov. 2025

Research Intern @ Adobe Research
Host: Zichao (Jack) Wang
May 2024 - Nov. 2024

Tech Leader @ Symbiotic Matrix
Leader: Lin Zhang (CEO)
June 2023 - Sep. 2023

Research Intern @ IDEA Research
Host: Haiqin Yang
Feb. 2023 - June 2023

MiLDEdit: Reasoning-Based Multi-Layer Design Document Editing
Zihao Lin, Wanrong Zhu, et al. NeurIPS 2025 Workshop, Spotlight
Persona-SQ: An end-to-end Framework for Personalized Suggested Questions Generation
Zihao Lin, Zichao Wang, et al. NAACL 2025 Demo Track
R2I-Bench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Driven Text-to-Image Generation
Kaijie Chen, Zihao Lin, et al. EMNLP 2025, Outstanding Paper Award 🏆
Navigating the Dual Facets: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Sequential Memory Editing in LLMs
Zihao Lin, et al. ACL 2024
MMedAgent: Learning to Use Medical Tools with Multi-modal Agent
Binxu Li, …, Zihao Lin*, Yixin Wang* (*co-corresponding). EMNLP 2024 Findings
Rethinking Medical Report Generation: Disease Revealing Enhancement with Knowledge Graph
Zihao Lin*, Yixin Wang*, Haoyu Dong*. ICML 2023
Trust It or Not: Confidence-Guided Automatic Radiology Report Generation
Zihao Lin*, Yixin Wang*, et al. Neurocomputing

Localizing Knowledge in Diffusion Transformers - NeurIPS 2025
Knowing When to Stop: Dynamic Context Cutoff for LLMs - NeurIPS 2025
RoRA-VLM: Robust Retrieval-Augmented Vision Language Models - ICCV 2025 Workshop
Holistic Evaluation for Interleaved Text-and-Image Generation - EMNLP 2024
InternalInspector: Robust Confidence Estimation in LLMs - EMNLP 2024 Findings
ToolBeHonest: A Multi-level Hallucination Diagnostic Benchmark - EMNLP 2024
ACN: Adversarial Co-training Network for Brain Tumor Segmentation - MICCAI 2021

Suggested Question Generation Using Machine-Learning
Zichao Wang, Zihao Lin, Varun Manjunatha, Tong Sun, Jiuxiang Gu, Ryan Rossi
U.S. Patent App. No. P13454 (Pending)

Reviewer: ACL ARR (2024-2025), EMNLP (2024-2025), ICLR (2025-2026), NAACL (2025), COLM (2025)