Bocheng Zou

Hello! I'm Bocheng Zou (邹博诚), a 2nd year PhD student at UW-Madison.

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Education

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  University of Wisconsin-Madison 09/2025-05/2029 (Expected)

  Ph.D. in Computer Sciences

  Thesis Advisor: Yong Jae Lee
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  University of Wisconsin-Madison 09/2025-05/2026

  M.S. in Computer Sciences

  Thesis Advisor: Dan Negrut

  GPA: 4.0/4.0
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  University of Wisconsin-Madison 01/2024-05/2025

  B.S. in Computer Sciences (Honor)

  Thesis Advisor: Yong Jae Lee

  GPA: 4.0/4.0
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  University of California, Berkeley 01/2023-05/2023

  Visiting Student, Berkeley Global Access Program

  GPA: 4.0/4.0
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  Xi'an Jiaotong University 09/2021-12/2023

  B.S. in Computer Sciences (Honor) (Transferred Out)

  Honors Youth Program Student

  GPA: 3.91/4.3
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  High School Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University 09/2019-07/2021

  Two-year Preparatory Courses of Honors Youth Program

Experiences

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  Tesla Palo Alto, CA 05/2026-08/2026

  Robotics Intern

  Website
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  Simulation Based Engineering Lab Madison, WI 08/2025-05/2026

  Research Assistant

  Website

Selected Publications

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  Draw-and-Understand: Leveraging Visual Prompts to Enable MLLMs to Comprehend What You Want

  Keywords: Visual Prompt, Multimodal

  Weifeng Lin*, Xinyu Wei*, Ruichuan An, Peng Gao, Bocheng Zou, Yulin Luo, Siyuan Huang, Shanghang Zhang, Hongsheng Li

  ICLR 2025

  [arXiv] [Project Page] [Poster]
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  VGBench: Evaluating Large Language Models on Vector Graphics Understanding and Generation

  Keywords: Vector Graphics, Multimodal, Benchmark

  Bocheng Zou*, Mu Cai*, Jianrui Zhang, Yong Jae Lee

  EMNLP 2024

  [arXiv] [DOI] [Project Page]
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  LLM as Dataset Analyst: Subpopulation Structure Discovery with Large Language Model

  Keywords: Data-Centric AI, Multimodal

  Yulin Luo*, Ruichuan An*, Bocheng Zou, Yiming Tang, Jiaming Liu, Shanghang Zhang

  ECCV 2024

  [arXiv] [DOI] [Project Page] [Poster]

Selected Projects

• Project Chrono

  Led the Chrono Gymnasium project to enable using Project Chrono for RL training. Designed and implemented the Chrono FSI and Chrono VSG Python interface. Improved the Chrono Sensor's rendering capability on CRM Terrain.

  Start on: 2025-02-26

  [Homepage]

Services

• NeurIPS 2026 Reviewer
• ECCV 2026 Reviewer
• ICLR 2026 Reviewer
• ICLR 2025 Reviewer
• NeurIPS 2024 Ethics Reviewer
• AUR Maintainer for eclipse-platform
• CS Study Group Tutor for COMP SCI 300 Spring 2024 at UW-Madison