Faculty
Yuan Cheng
Group Leader
Yuan Cheng is an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Currently, he leads the Computing Technology Laboratory (CLab) at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Visiting Scholars
Yuzhe Zhang
Research Interests: computational optics, optical computing, computational imaging and sensing
Contact: yuzhezhang@connect.hku.hk
Yuzhe Zhang is a PhD student in the CLab at The University of Hong Kong, working in the Imaging Systems Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Edmund Y. Lam. He received his Master's degree from the Beijing Institute of Technology and later worked at SenseTime as a researcher on the development of mobile intelligent vision models. He published multiple research papers in journals and conferences such as Nature, Advanced Materials, CVPR, etc. His research focuses on utilizing light–matter interactions to surpass the performance limits of conventional optical sensors and electronic processors, with the goal of enabling multidimensional sensing and efficient computing.
Yin Zhou
Research Interests: intelligent fiber optic sensing and computing, photonic integrated chips, etc.
Contact: zhouyin@swjtu.edu.cn
Yin Zhou is a visiting scholar in the Computing Technology Laboratory (CLab) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an Associate Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University. His research interests include intelligent fiber optic sensing and computing, photonic integrated chips, etc.
PhD Students
Kai Wu
Research Interests: photonic computing, artificial intelligence, and computational imaging
Contact: wk2012silent@163.com
Kai Wu is a Ph.D. student in the CLab at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Cheng. He received his Bachelor's degree in Automation from Xi'an Jiaotong University and his Master's degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests lie in photonic computing, artificial intelligence, and computational imaging.
Ruofan Zhang
Research Interests: multi-modal large models and efficient large language models
Contact: zrf20@tsinghua.org.cn
Ruofan Zhang is a Ph.D. student in the CLab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Cheng. She got her Bachelor degree in Xiamen University and then got her Master degree in Tsinghua University. She published multiple research papers in prestigious AI conferences, including ICML, ECCV, etc. Her research interests lie in Multi-Modal Large Models and Efficient Large Language Models.
Meiling Jin
Research Interests: edge computing and large-scale neural networks
Contact: jinmeilling@163.com
Meiling Jin is a Ph.D. student in the CLab at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Cheng. She received her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Her research focuses on edge computing and large-scale neural network optimization.
Master Students
Yi Zuo
Research Interests: edge computing
Contact: zy201113@sjtu.edu.cn
Yi Zuo is a Master's student in the CLab at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Cheng. He received his Bachelor's degree in Biology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include edge computing and large-scale neural network optimization.
Xu Huang
Research Interests: embodied AI safety and hardware–software co-design
Contact:2252929@tongji.edu.cn
Xu Huang is a Master's student in the CLab at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Cheng. He received his Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Tongji University. His research interests include embodied AI safety and hardware–software co-design.
Undergraduate Students
Shangxi Yao
Research Interests: photonic computing, artificial intelligence, and computational imaging
Contact: shangxiii2025@163.com
Shangxi Yao is an undergraduate student at East China Normal University. She is currently a research intern at the Computer Lab (CLab) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Cheng. Her research interests lie in photonic computing, artificial intelligence, and computational imaging.
Haobin Li
Research interests: deep learning and optical computing
Contact: snowblink@sjtu.edu.cn
Haobin Li is an undergraduate student at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Cheng. His research interests focus on deep learning and optical computing, reducing the loss during optical signal transmission, thereby exploring more applications and promoting the development of optical computing.
Pingyang Huang
Research interests: intelligent sensing and computational optical imaging
Contact: hpy_dut@163.com
Pingyang Huang is an undergraduate student at Dalian University of Technology. He is currently a research intern at the Computer Lab (CLab) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Cheng. His research interests lie in intelligent sensing and computational optical imaging.
Ruolu Liang
Research interests: tensor decomposition for LLM compression, efficient AI inference on edge devices, hardware-software co-design for lightweight models
Contact: lucyliang@sjtu.edu.cn
Ruolu Liang is an undergraduate student from Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, supervised by Prof. Yuan Cheng. Her research interests focus on developing advanced tensor decomposition algorithms and their practical applications in optimizing large language models.
Yifan Kong
Research interests: Edge Computing
Contact: kongyifan@sjtu.edu.cn
Yifan Kong is an undergraduate student at the School of Integrated Circuits,ShanghaiJiao Tong University,under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Cheng.His research interests focus on Edge Computing,optimizing the deployment and inference efficiency of lightweight AI models on edge devices.
Chenyao Wang
Research Interests: Optical Computing
Contact: YanhuiGeng@outlook.com
Chenyao Wang is an undergraduate student at the School of Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Cheng. Her research interests focus on optical neural networks and memory-computing integrated photonic computing.