CV
Curriculum vitae for Jianchong Chen.
Contact Information
| Name | Jianchong Chen |
| Professional Title | MSECE Student |
| jc131@illinois.edu | |
| Location | Urbana, Illinois |
| Website | https://jccooper1.github.io |
Professional Summary
Jianchong Chen is an MSECE student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, having completed his undergraduate studies in the joint Computer Engineering program between Zhejiang University and UIUC. He is a Research Assistant in the Signals and Inference Research Group, where he is very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Romit Roy Choudhury. His research focuses on generative modeling.
Experience
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2024 - present Urbana, IL, US
Research Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Assistant in the Signals and Inference Research Group (SiNRG), advised by Prof. Romit Roy Choudhury.
- Working on diffusion models, flow matching, NeRFs, text-to-image models, and their applications.
Education
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2026 - present Urbana, IL, US
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (MSECE)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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2022 - 2026 Hangzhou, China
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2022 - 2026 Urbana, IL, US
Publications
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2026 TILT: Improving Compositional Generation in Diffusion Models with a Model-Intrinsic Reward
Under review
Training-free compositional text-to-image generation via test-time alignment to a model-intrinsic reward.
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2026 Steer Away From Mode Collisions: Improving Composition In Diffusion Models
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)
Work on improving concept composition in diffusion-based text-to-image generation.
Skills
Machine Learning: diffusion models, flow matching, generative modeling, text-to-image models
Tools: PyTorch
Interests
Research: generative models