CV

You can download my cv here: Xiaomeng’s Curriculum Vitae.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Northeastern University2024-2029 (Expected)

• M.S in Computer Application Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)2021-2024

• B.S. in Computer Engineering (with Honors), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)2017-2021

• B.E. in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU)2017-2021

Selected Publications

• Xiaomeng Yang∗, Lei Lu∗, Qihui Fan, Changdi Yang, Juyi Lin, Yanzhi Wang, Xuan Zhang, Shangqian Gao. ALTER: All-in-One Layer Pruning and Temporal Expert Routing for Efficient Diffusion Generation. In NeurIPS, 2025. [Paper] [Code]
• Xiaomeng Yang, Zhi Qiao, Yu Zhou. IPAD: Iterative, Parallel, and Diffusion-based Network for Scene Text Recognition. Accepted by IJCV, 2025. [Paper] [Code]
• Xiaomeng Yang, Zhi Qiao, Jin Wei, Dongbao Yang, Yu Zhou. Masked and Permuted Implicit Context Learning for Scene Text Recognition. In IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
• Xiaomeng Yang, Dongbao Yang, Zhi Qiao, Yu Zhou. Accurate and Robust Scene Text Recognition via Adversarial Training. Accepted by ICASSP, 2024. [Paper] [Code]

Reseach Experience

• Diffusion Models Acceleration Based on Dynamic Model Sparsity

  • NEU | Research Assistant, Advisor: Prof. Yanzhi WangNov. 2024 – May. 2025

• AI for Analog Circuit Evaluation

  • NEU | Research Assistant, Advisor: Prof. Xuan ZhangNov. 2024 – Apr. 2025

• Linguistic Information Enhanced Scene Text Recognition

  • UCAS | Research Assistant, Advisor: Prof. Yu ZhouJun. 2022 – Apr. 2024

  • Tomorrow Advancing Life | Research Internship, Advisor: Zhi QiaoJun. 2022 – Apr. 2024

• Adversarial Training for Scene Text Recognition

  • UCAS | Summer Internship, Advisor: Prof. Yu ZhouMar. 2023 – Aug. 2023

• Involving OCR into the Flow of TextVQA

  • UCAS | Research Assistant, Advisor: Prof. Yu ZhouOct. 2020 – Sep. 2022

• Cost-Efficient Scene Text Detection

  • UCAS | Summer Internship, Advisor: Prof. Yu ZhouMar. 2021 – Jun. 2021

• Educational Data Mining

  • ZJU | SRTP Program, Advisor: Prof. Liangjing YangOct. 2019 – Aug. 2020

• Waterway Segmentation and Transfer Learning of Building Segmentation

  • UIUC | Individual Study, Advisor: Prof. Volodymyr KindratenkoSep. 2019 – Dec. 2019

Skills

• Language skill: English: Advanced, Chinese: Native
• Programming languages: Python, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS
• Other Library and Tools: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Numpy, Scipy, Linux, Git, Arduino, Unity3D