I am a PhD student at the University of Trento in the ELLIS PhD Program, supervised by Prof. Nicu Sebe in MHUG, and co-supervised by Prof. Max Welling in AMLab. Before PhD, I worked with Prof. Alan Yuille in CCVL at Johns Hopkins University.

Selected Publications

Evaluating Newtonian Mechanics in Video Generative Models with Real Physical Systems
Antonios Tragoudaras^*, Chenyu Zhang^*, Daniil Cherniavskii^*, Antonios Vozikis^†, Thijmen Nijdam^†, Derck W. E. Prinzhorn, Mark Bodracska, Nicu Sebe, Andrii Zadaianchuk^‡, Stratis Gavves^‡
ICML 2026

Householder Projector for Unsupervised Latent Semantics Discovery of GANs and Diffusion
Jichao Zhang^*, Chenyu Zhang^*, Wei Wang, Nicu Sebe, and Yue Song
Under review

SwapMix: Diagnosing and Regularizing the Over-Reliance on Visual Context in Visual Question Answering
Vipul Gupta, Adam Kortylewski, Zhuowan Li, Chenyu Zhang, Yingwei Li, Alan Yuille
CVPR 2022

^* equal contribution (first authors). ^† equal contribution (second authors). ^‡ equal advising.

Academic Services

Reviewer for CVPR (2023–2025), ICCV (2023–2025), ECCV (2024), and ACCV (2024).

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Trento, ELLIS PhD Program, Nov. 2023 – Nov. 2027 (estimated)
• Exchange student, University of Amsterdam, ELLIS PhD Program
• M.S.E. in Robotics, Johns Hopkins University, Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2022

Selected Honors

• LCSR Distinguished Scholarship, Johns Hopkins University
• First Prize of CUPT (China Undergraduate Physics Tournament), North China Division, as captain of Team Ⅱ