" Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. "
โ€”โ€” Friedrich Schiller

About Me

๐Ÿ‘‹ Greetings! I'm Chenghao David Zhang, a ๐Ÿ“š Ph.D. student at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, under the supervision of Prof. Zhicheng Dou. I earned my ๐ŸŽ“ B.E. degree in Software Engineering from the School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2024. My research focuses on ๐ŸŒˆ multimodal information retrieval and ๐ŸŒ large language models. I'm also passionate about ๐ŸŽฎ computer graphics, even though it's not my primary research area.

Education

  • B.E. in Software Engineering, School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2020 - 2024
  • Ph.D. in Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, 2024 - present

Publications

2025

Still working on it ๐Ÿฅฒ

2024

  • Progressive multimodal reasoning via active retrieval
  • Understand what LLM needs: Dual preference alignment for retrieval-augmented generation
  • FlashRAG: A modular toolkit for efficient retrieval-augmented generation research
  • INTERS: unlocking the power of large language models in search with instruction tuning