Mengyu Zhao

PhD student @ Rutgers University

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Hi, I am Mengyu Zhao, a PhD student in ECE at Rutgers University, advised by Prof. Shirin Jalali. I work on visual restoration with image priors and LLM/MLLM agents and efficiency. Before starting my PhD, I earned my BE from Xi’an Jiaotong University and my MS from Rutgers University.

I am always happy to chat and collaborate. We have a reading group on deep learning for inverse problems. I also interned at Bloomberg in summer 2025, working on a GUI LLM agent project.

Email: mengyu.zhao [at] rutgers [dot] edu

selected publications

  1. arXiv
    Saturation in Snapshot Compressive Imaging
    Mengyu Zhao, and Shirin Jalali
    Submitted, 2025
    arXiv
  2. SIIMS
    Theoretical Characterization of Effect of Masks in Snapshot Compressive Imaging
    Mengyu Zhao, and Shirin Jalali
    SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2025
    arXiv
  3. NeurIPS
    Untrained Neural Nets for Snapshot Compressive Imaging: Theory and Algorithms
    Mengyu Zhao, Xi Chen, Xin Yuan, and Shirin Jalali
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
    arXiv Code
  4. Allerton
    Theoretical Analysis of Binary Masks in Snapshot Compressive Imaging Systems
    Mengyu Zhao, and Shirin Jalali
    2023 59th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), 2023
    arXiv