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Education, research experience, grants, and honors.

General Information

Full Name Zanlin Ni (倪赞林)
Email nzl22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Affiliation Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
Profiles Google Scholar · GitHub

Education

  • 2022.09 - Present
    Ph.D. Student in Control Science and Engineering
    Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    Department of Automation
  • 2017 - 2022
    B.Eng. in Automation
    Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    Department of Automation
    • Class rank: 2 / 175

Research Interests

  • Parallel sampling strategies for generative AI, spanning image generation and language inference.
  • Discrete generative models, diffusion language models, adaptive sampling policies, and reinforcement learning for generation.

Research Experience

  • 2026.08 - Present
    Research Intern
    DeepSeek
    Pretraining (Backbone) team
    • Model architecture design.
  • 2024.06 - 2026.08
    Research Intern
    Alibaba Future Living Lab (now part of the ATH business group)
    • Led university-industry research projects as a principal contributor.
    • Led The Flexibility Trap (ICML 2026 Outstanding Paper) and AdaGen (TPAMI 2026; published online in 2025).
  • 2022.10 - 2023.06
    Research Intern
    Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

Research Grants and Programs

  • 2026.01 - 2027.12
    NSFC Young Student Basic Research Program (Doctoral Students)
    National Natural Science Foundation of China
    • Principal investigator; funding: RMB 300,000.
  • 2025.12 - 2027.12
    Young Science and Technology Talent Cultivation Program, Doctoral Student Track
    China Association for Science and Technology (CAST)

Honors and Awards

  • 2026
    • ICML Outstanding Paper Award for The Flexibility Trap (2/23,918 submissions); Oral presentation.
    • LoViF @ ECCV Workshop Outstanding Paper Award for InsightTok; Oral presentation.
  • 2025, 2026
    • National Scholarship for Doctoral Students.
  • 2024
    • Champion and Innovation Award, CVPR 2024 AGC Multi-View 3D Visual Grounding Track (team member).
  • 2022
    • Future Scholar Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
  • 2021
    • SenseTime Scholarship.
  • 2019
    • Second Prize, Finals of the 10th National Undergraduate Mathematics Competition (non-mathematics majors).
  • 2018
    • First Prize, 10th National Undergraduate Mathematics Competition (non-mathematics majors).
    • First Prize, 35th Regional Undergraduate Physics Competition (non-physics majors, Category A).

Research Works

  • 21 research works, including 11 first/co-first-author works. See the full publication list for authors, venues, and manuscript status.