Hi! I'm Jinfan Zhou.

PhD student in Computer Science at University of Chicago.
Specialized in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning.

Jinfan Zhou

About Me

I'm Jinfan Zhou, a PhD student at University of Chicago advised by Prof. Rana Hanocka. My research lies at the intersection of 3D computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning. I work on 3D shape understanding and generative models. In particular, I study how to distill robust features from 2D for multiple downstream tasks, and study generative models for both images and 3D shape generation.

I earned my Master's degree in Robotics from University of Michigan. I was fortunate to work with Prof. Jeong Joon Park and Prof. Qing Qu during my master's studies. I also earned my Bachelor's degree in Automation from Shandong University, advised by Prof. Wei Zhang. In addition, I worked under the supervision of Prof. Evangelos Mazomenos at University College London.

Publications & Preprint

MeshFM teaser

MeshFM: 2D Features Are All You Need for 3D Shape Understanding

Jinfan Zhou*, Richard Liu*, Itai Lang, Rana Hanocka

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026

Reproducibility in diffusion models teaser

The Emergence of Reproducibility and Consistency in Diffusion Models

Huijie Zhang*, Jinfan Zhou*, Yifu Lu, Minzhe Guo, Liyue Shen, Qing Qu

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024

Best Paper Award, NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Diffusion Models

Shifted-windows transformers teaser

Shifted-windows Transformers for the Detection of Cerebral Aneurysms in Microsurgery

Jinfan Zhou*, William Muirhead*, Simon C. Williams, Danail Stoyanov, Hani J. Marcus, Evangelos B. Mazomenos

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS) 2023

Best Paper Award Nominee, IPCAI 2023

AI-assisted surgical scene recognition teaser

Artificial Intelligence Assisted Surgical Scene Recognition: A Comparative Study Amongst Healthcare Professionals

Simon C. Williams*, Jinfan Zhou*, William R. Muirhead, et al.

Annals of Surgery

TriFlow teaser

Taming Feed-forward Reconstruction Models as Latent Encoders for 3D Generative Models

Suttisak Wizadwongsa*, Jinfan Zhou*, Edward Li, Jeong Joon Park

arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.00651

* Equal contribution. See the full list on Google Scholar.

Work Experience

Thrixel Inc. June 2026 – Present

Research Engineer Intern

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