I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Washington, Seattle. My research focuses on quantum optics and nanophotonics. I work with Professor Kai-Mei Fu, studying defects in ZnO that are promising candidates for quantum computing and quantum information processing.

I spent a wonderful time working with Professor Haoliang Qian on several projects of nanophotonics and optical signal processing from May 2022 to Dec 2022.

My previous interests also include computer vision and robotics. I won 2nd place in the General Place Recognition Competition held by ICRA 2022 and CMU Robotics Institute in October 2022. I collaborated with Dr. Lun Luo on the localization problem in autonomous driving from June 2022 to March 2023.

I received the National Scholarship twice and am in the Zhejiang University Morningside Cultural China Scholars Program.

Publications

• S. Zheng*, Y. Li*, Z. Yu, B. Yu, S.-Y. Cao, L. Luo, and H.-L. Shen, “I2P-Rec: Recognizing Images on Large-Scale Point Cloud Maps through Bird’s-Eye View Projections,” 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oral Presentation [PDF]
• L. Luo, S. Zheng, Y. Li, Y. Fa, B. Yu, S. Cao, and H. Shen, “BEVPlace: Learning Lidar-Based Place Recognition Using Bird’s-Eye View Images,” 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) [PDF]

*Authors contributed equally to this work.

Demo of I2P-Rec

Miscellaneous

Outside of school and research, you’ll probably catch me reading or zooming around on an aimless walk. I am a fan of Dostoevsky and Wang Xiaobo. I am also very interested (but an amateur) in photography, cycling, and classical music. Peanut butter is my serious weakness.