Jiaru Zhang

Postdoc researcher at Purdue University

Purdue University

Biography

I am a postdoc researcher at Purdue university, directed by Prof. Ziran Wang and Prof. Ruqi Zhang. I received my Ph.D. degree of Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in June 2024, supervised by Prof. Haibing Guan, and co-supervised by Prof. Yang Hua, Prof. Tao Song, and Prof. Ruhui Ma.

Interests

Generative AI
Bayesian Deep Learning
Autonomous Driving

Education

PhD in Computer Science and Technology, 2019.9 - 2024.6

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
BSc in Computer Science and Technology (IEEE Honor Class), 2015.9 - 2019.6

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Electrical Engineering International Intensive program, 2017.6 - 2017.8

University of Washington

Publication List

Jiaru Zhang, Manav Gagvani, Can Cui, Juntong Peng, Ruqi Zhang, Ziran Wang (2026). Efficient and Explainable End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Masked Vision-Language-Action Diffusion. In IROS 2026.

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Can Cui, Jiaru Zhang, Yupeng Zhou, Juntong Peng, Sung-Yeon Park, Zichong Yang, Prashanth Sankaranarayanan, Ruqi Zhang, Ziran Wang (2026). ViLaD: A Large Vision Language Diffusion Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving. In IROS 2026.

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Xiaoyu Wu, Jiaru Zhang, Yang Hua, Bohan Lyu, Hao Wang, Tao Song, Haibing Guan (2026). Exploring Diffusion Models' Corruption Stage in Few-Shot Fine-tuning and Mitigating with Bayesian Neural Networks. In KDD 2026.

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Jiaru Zhang, Juanwu Lu, Xiaoyu Wu, Ziran Wang, Ruqi Zhang (2026). Accelerating Inference of Discrete Autoregressive Normalizing Flows by Selective Jacobi Decoding. In TMLR (Featured Certification).

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Internship Experience

Research Intern

Microsoft Research Asia

November 2022 – August 2023 Beijing

Mentor: Justin Ding.

Research Intern

China International Capital Corporation Limited

August 2023 – September 2023 Shanghai

Academic Service

Organizer: 5th LLVM-AD Workshop @ IEEE/CVF WACV 2026
Organizer: 4th LLVM-AD Workshop @ IEEE ITSC 2025
Conference reviewer: ACL ARR May 2026, NeurIPS 2026, ICML 2026, IROS 2026, CVPR 2026, AISTATS 2026, SIGKDD 2026, AAAI 2026, NeurIPS 2025, ICCV 2025, ACMMM 2025, KDD 2025, ICML 2025, CVPR 2025, AAAI 2025, ICPR 2024, NeurIPS 2024, CVPR 2024, ICML 2024, ICLR 2023, NeurIPS 2023, EAI CollaborateCom 2022.
Journal reviewer: Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Software: Practice and Experience, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Journal.