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Yufan(Flynn) Zhang 张宇凡

I am a Ph.D. student at University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Terry Yang. I am interested in useful generative models, physical AI, and trustworthy AI. Previously, I was fortunate to be advised by Berkay Celik, Zhenhui Jessie Li, Satish Ukkusuri, and Xianyuan Zhan.

Updates

📢 Latest News

I officially began my Ph.D. journey at the University of Maryland, College Park.

This summer, I joined AIR for a research internship.

I concluded my one-year Visiting Scholar appointment at Purdue University.

Our engineering design benchmark for LLMs is accepted to NeurIPS 2025.

I successfully completed my studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Research

🔍 Research

My research focuses on useful generative models, physical AI, and trustworthy AI, with applications in transportation systems, autonomous driving, and robust machine intelligence.

Work

📖 Publications

Beyond Data Poisoning: Stealthy Adversarial Manipulation of 3D Gaussian Splatting

Yufan Zhang, Zengxiang Lei, Ruoyu Song, Z. Berkay Celik, Satish Ukkusuri

under review

Controllable Road Marking Generation

Zhiyu Cai, Yufan Zhang, Ruichen Tan, Zengxiang Lei, Satish Ukkusuri

under review

CAMERA3: Camera Motion-aware Robust Adversarial Attacks Against Monocular Depth Estimation

Yufan Zhang, Zengxiang Lei, Ruoyu Song, Z. Berkay Celik, Satish Ukkusuri

under review

Experience

📍 Experience

Research Intern

Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University

Advised by Xianyuan Zhan

Service

🎓 Academic Service

Writing

🤔 Latest Posts

A Probabilistic Modeling Route from ELBO and Score Matching to Velocity Fields: Notes and Summary

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