Xianyang (Sam) Zhan

My name is Xianyang (Sam) Zhan (詹先洋), I am a Bachelor student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduating in May 2025. I work with Professor Koustuv Saha at the OnCARE (Online and Connected AI Reflections) Lab at UIUC. My research interests include Natrual Language Processing, Human AI Collaboration and AI for Social Good. My email is zhan39@illinois.edu, Please feel free to contact me!

I will be physically located in Chicago, IL from January 2025 to May 2025 as a member of City Scholar, if you are interested in connecting with me at Chicago (I would love to campus visit Uchi, NU, UIC, UIUC-Chicago!), feel free to contact me via email or LinkedIn.

News

Jan 22, 2025	Acceptance to NAACL 2025 Our paper SLM-Mod: Small Language Models Surpass LLMs at Content Moderation is accepted to NAACL 2025 Main conference.
Nov 27, 2024	Uber SWE Internship I have accepted an offer to work at Uber Freight as a Software Engineer Intern for Spring 2025.
Nov 11, 2024	UIUC MSCS Admission I have accepted an offer for the Master of Science in Computer Science program (BS-MS) at UIUC starting in Fall 2025. This is a fast paced 5th year program with a heavy focus on research. ~~I am still actively seeking for PhD opportunities starting in Fall 2025.~~
Oct 01, 2024	Serve as Annual NCSA Student Research Conference Organizing Committee I have accepted the invitation to join on the 3rd Annual NCSA Student Research Conference organizing committee.
Aug 22, 2024	NCSA Internship I have accepted an offer to work at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as a SPIN intern for Fall 2024.