Yijun Shen (沈逸骏)

Yijun Shen (沈逸骏)

East China Normal University

Yijun Shen (沈逸骏) is a first-year master’s student in Computer Science at East China Normal University (ECNU), where he is fortunate to be advised by Prof. Kai Zhang. Prior to ECNU, he completed his B.Eng. degree at Hohai University in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Fan Liu, and gained industry experience as an Algorithm Intern at Spring Airlines. Yijun hails from Shanghai (上海); outside of research, he is a badminton player and enjoys Souls-like games (such as Naraka: Bladepoint).

🔍Research Topics

  • World Model
  • LLM Planning

🔥 News

  • 2025.08:   “Chain-of-Talkers (CoTalk): Fast Human Annotation of Dense Image Captions,” was accepted to EMNLP 2025 🎉🎉
  • 2025.03:   “The Intelligent Audit Platform,” successfully completed its pilot phase and was officially deployed at the finance department of Spring Airlines. 🎉🎉
  • 2024.08:   As team leader, our project “E Mark: Intelligent Marking Platform” won the Second Prize in the National Computer Design Competition and the Third Prize in the National Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. 🎉🎉
  • 2024.06:   Having been awarded the “Ten Outstanding and One Hundred Excellent Students” title (Top 100 university-wide). 🎓🎓
  • 2023.09:   “State index for interpreting the state-dependent behavior of granular soil: A review,” was accepted to Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering (IF 9.7)! 🎉🎉

📖 Educations

  • 2025.09 - now, M.S. College of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, supervised by Prof. Kai Zhang.
  • 2021.08 - 2025.07, B.S. at College of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Hohai University, supervised by Prof. Fan Liu.

💻 Internships

  • 2024.10 - 2025.03, Algorithm Intern at Spring Airlines, under the supervision of Dr. Zhenya Lin.

📝 Selected Publications

* Equal Contribution

EMNLP 2025
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Chain-of-Talkers (CoTalk): Fast Human Annotation of Dense Image Captions

Yijun Shen*, Delong Chen*, Fan Liu*, Xingyu Wang, Chuanyi Zhang, Liang Yao, Yuhui Zheng.

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  • We propose an efficient image caption annotation method, which is a sequential cross modal input-output annotation framework, CoTalk

👥 Co-authors

Prof. Fan Liu, Delong Chen, Liang Yao, Xingyu Wang

🏆 Competitions

  • 2025, bronze medal, Kaggle —— CIBMTR - Equity in post-HCT Survival Predictions

  • 2024, Second Prize, Final of National Computer Design Competition | 中国大学生计算机设计大赛全国总决赛二等奖

  • 2024, Third Prize, Final of National Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition | 中国大学生服务外包创新创业大赛总决赛三等奖

  • 2023, Second Prize, Final of Global Campus Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Elite Competition | 全球校园人工智能算法精英大赛全国总决赛二等奖

  • 2023, Honorable Winner, The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) | 美国大学生数学建模大赛 Meritorious Winner

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2025, Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Hohai University | 河海大学优秀本科毕业论文

  • 2024, “Ten Outstanding and One Hundred Excellent Students” Award, Hohai University | 河海大学海韵风华十杰百佳”优秀学生

  • 2024, Outstanding Communist Youth League Cadre, Hohai University | 河海大学优秀共青团干部

  • 2022, 2023, Merit Student, Hohai University | 河海大学优秀学生标兵

  • 2023, 2025, Outstanding Student Leader, Hohai University | 河海大学优秀学生干部

  • 2021-2025, Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholarship, Hohai University | 河海大学优秀学生奖学金