Jinghui Zhang/张景辉

Jinghui Zhang

Hello! I am Jinghui Zhang (张景辉), a first-year Ph.D. student in NLP department at MBZUAI, fortunately advised by Prof. Xiuying Chen. I received my B.Eng. degree from School of Information Science & Engineering, Shandong University in 2025, where I have been a member of AITechLab led by Prof. Pengwei Wang.

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Contact: jinghui.zhang (at) mbzuai (dot) ac (dot) ae

Education

	Ph.D Student in Natural Language Processing NLP Department, MBZUAI	Aug. 2025 - Present Abu Dhabi, UAE
	B.Eng., EECS School of Information Science & Technology, Shandong University	Sept. 2021 - June 2025 Qingdao, China

Experience

NLP Department, MBZUAI Research Intern, Supervisor: Prof. Xiuying Chen	Sept. 2024 - July 2025
AITechLab, Shandong University Research Assistant, Supervisor: Prof. Pengwei Wang	Dec. 2023 - June 2025
AI Department, Westlake University Research Intern, with Dr. Zelin Zang, Supervisor: Prof. Stan ZQ. Li	Oct. 2024 - Feb. 2025

Research

I am particularly interested in Human-centered NLP and Interpretability, and I'd be happy to discuss various topics not limited to these areas!

From Individuals to Crowds: Dual-Level Public Response Prediction in Social Media
Jinghui Zhang, Kaiyang Wan, Longwei Xu, Ao Li, Zongfang Liu, Xiuying Chen^†
ACM MM 2025

EmoVerse: Exploring Multimodal Large Language Models for Sentiment and Emotion Understanding
Ao Li^*, Longwei Xu^*, Chen Ling, Jinghui Zhang, Pengwei Wang^†
neurocomputing

Modeling Variants of Prompts for Vision-Language Models
Ao Li^*, Zongfang Liu^*, Xinhua Li, Jinghui Zhang, Pengwei Wang^†, Hu Wang^†
Under Review

* Equal contribution, † Corresponding author

Service

Conference Reviewer: ARR Feb 2025, ARR May 2025, AAAI 2026

Honors & Awards

ACM Student Travel Grant, ACM MM 2025	Sept. 2025
Distinguished Undergraduate Thesis, Shandong University	June 2025
Second Prize, Shandong Province College Student Mathematics Competition	Dec. 2022
First Prize, MathorCup Mathematical Modeling Challenge Competition	Apr. 2024
Academic Scholarship, Shandong University	Sept. 2022 & 2023 & 2024

Miscellanea

Here are some pics of places I love: my gallery. I probably won't update it often cuz I just post new stuff on a whim when I'm free...

As a cat person I can't help but share my feline friends :D

Hi 2025
Night at Qingdao, where the city lights embraced the ocean breeze

Two Brothers
Captured a sweet moment of inseparable companions