Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia

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ECE, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC, Canada

xzhan567@student.ubc.ca

I am a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, advised by Prof. Xiaoxiao Li. My current research focuses on efficient machine learning, RL post-training for reasoning models, and scalable training systems. Before joining UBC, I worked on 3D scene editing, low-light enhancement, and multi-view learning at the University of Ottawa and Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen.

I am always happy to connect about research collaborations in efficient AI, reasoning, and vision-language systems. Feel free to reach out by email.

selected publications

  1. arXiv
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    Self-Evolving Agents via Likelihood-Guided Tool-Space Optimization
    Xuanqi Zhang, Ruinan Jin, Running Yang, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.34151, 2026
  2. NeurIPS
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    Mitigating Memorization Where It Happens
    Xuanqi Zhang, Haoyang Shang, and Xiaoxiao Li
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026
  3. TIP
    Unfolding High-order Correlations for Interpretable Multi-contrast MRI Super-resolution
    Qiangqiang Shen, Xuanqi Zhang, Peilin Chen, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2026
  4. CVPRW
    Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge Results - PBVS 2025
    Rafael E. Rivadeneira, Angel D. Sappa, Riad Hammoud, and 10 more authors
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2025
  5. arXiv
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    LLEMamba: Low-Light Enhancement via Relighting-Guided Mamba with Deep Unfolding Network
    Xuanqi Zhang, Haijin Zeng, Jinwang Pan, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01028, 2024
  6. TKDD
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    Multi-View Ensemble Clustering via Low-Rank and Sparse Decomposition: from Matrix to Tensor
    Xuanqi Zhang, Qiangqiang Shen, Yongyong Chen, and 3 more authors
    ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2023

honors & awards

2026 NeurIPS 2026 Travel Award
2025–2029 Four-Year Fellowship, University of British Columbia (110,000 CAD)
2023–2024 Special Merit Scholarship, University of Ottawa (7,500 CAD)
2023 Best Bachelor's Thesis, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (1/323)
2019 Scholarship of Excellent Freshman, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (10,000 RMB)

service

Conference Reviewer NeurIPS 2026, ICME 2025
Journal Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks