Yifan Xu

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Hi! It’s Yifan. I’m currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Prof. Danny Z. Chen. My research focuses on Biomedical Imaging.

Before joining Notre Dame, I received my Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Information Management at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I worked under the guidance of Prof. James M. Rehg and Prof. Haohan Wang. My research journey began during my undergraduate studies at ShanghaiTech University, where I earned a B.Eng. in Computer Science. There, I had the opportunity to work in the AMNR Lab with Prof. Song Liu.

Besides, I’m keen on rowing and was a member of the university rowing team. Our team won the third prize in the 2022 Head of Shanghai River Regatta.

news

Sep 25, 2025 Joined Rehg Lab under supervision of Prof. James M. Rehg.
Jan 15, 2025 Joined multi-agent research group under supervision of Prof. Haohan Wang.
Aug 22, 2024 Glad to join School of Information Science and start my journey of M.S. Information Management at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

selected publications

  1. Pick Your Textual Gradients
    Yifan Xu, Yixuan Li, Xinzhuo Li, and 2 more authors
    In Submitted, 2025
    under review
  2. SafeCRS: Personalized Safety Alignment for LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems
    H. Hao, Yifan Xu, X. Li, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2026
    DOI
  3. NanoNeRF: Robot-assisted Nanoscale 360° reconstruction with neural radiance field under scanning electron microscope
    Xiang Fu, Yifan Xu, Shudong Wang, and 5 more authors
    In 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
    DOI
  4. A review of deep-learning-based super-resolution: From methods to applications
    Hu Su, Ying Li, Yifan Xu, and 2 more authors
    Pattern Recognition, 2025
    DOI