Curriculum Vitae

Mengqi Zhang · Ph.D. Student · Computer Science · UC Irvine

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Education

University of California, Irvine

Jan. 2026 – Present

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Advisor: Judy Hoffman

Georgia Institute of Technology

Aug. 2024 – Dec. 2025

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Advisor: Judy Hoffman

University of California, San Diego

Sept. 2021 – Jun. 2023

M.S. in Machine Learning

Advisors: Xiaolong Wang and Zhuowen Tu

Zhejiang University

Sept. 2017 – Jun. 2021

B.E. in Biosystem Engineering

Advisor: Tao Lin

Experience

Amazon

May – Aug. 2025

Applied Research Scientist

Contributed to virtual try-on development and delivery in Amazon Nova Canvas. Developed mask-free, style-instructed virtual try-on with 10–60% lower FID across two benchmarks.

Hillbot

Feb. – Jun. 2024

Machine Learning Engineer

Text-to-3D generation in MeshFormer and automated 3D human asset creation for avatar generation.

Publications

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Academic Service

Conference reviewer

CVPR ’25’26 · NeurIPS ’25’26 · ICLR ’26 · ICCV ’25 · CoRL ’26 · ECCV ’24 · WACV ’25