Yangfan Deng
Logo First Year Ph.D. Student at the University of Maryland, College Park
Logo Machine Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, Topological Data Analysis

I am looking for a 2026 Summer Intern Position!

I am greaty intereted in intergrating Machine Learning and Mathematics to solve engineering challenges!

I'm currently a first year Ph.D. student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. My advisor is Professor Min Wu, specializing in XXXX. I earned my M.S. degree from the University of Pittsburgh with the major in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I served as a RA in Professor Zhi-Hong Mao's intelligent control lab. He led by example and taught me how to become not only a good researcher but also a good person. I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Mathematical Sciences at the Ocean University of China. During my undergraduate, I was a RA in Professor Yong Zhao's computer vision and graphics lab.


 Education

  • University of Maryland, College Park
    University of Maryland, College Park
    2025 - present
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Ph.D. Student
  • University of Pittsburgh
    University of Pittsburgh
    2023-2025
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Master Degree (Research Track)
  • Ocean University of China
    Ocean University of China
    2018-2022
    School of Mathematical Science
    Bachelor Degree (Top 10%)

 Honors & Awards

  • Won the Dean's Fellowship from UMD
    2025
  • Won the National Second Prize in CUMCM
    2021
  • Won the Second Prize in Shandong Province in CUMCM
    2020
  • Won the First-Class Academic Scholarship (GPA Top 5%)
    2019
  • Won the Third Prize in CNUMC
    2019

  Experiences

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Research Assistant
Comcast Multimedia Signal Processing Laboratory
College Park, US, 2025-present
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Research Assistant
Intelligent Control Lab
Pittsburgh, US, 2023-2025
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AI Research Intern
Department of Systems Supply Chain
Shenzhen, CHN, 2021 Summer
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Research Assistant
Computer Vision and Graphics Lab
Qingdao, CHN, 2021-2023
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Intern Assistant of Project Manager
Department of Internet
Wuhan, CHN, 2019 Winter

  News

2025
Apr 01
📢I am truly honored to join Professor Min Wu's group to be a Ph.D. student, specializing in XXXXXX.🌟
Mar 27
💡I am invited to be a reviewer at AIP Advances (Impact factor: 1.4)!🌟
2024
Oct 27
🌟Ariel Yin's paper titled "Design concept of a wearable device for sleep related brain wave detection and stimulation" is accepted by ICDSCA 2024, which I served as a co-author! Congratulations!🎉
Aug 27
May 24
✅I fanalized the manuscript titled "Robust Loss Functions for Object Grasping under Limited Ground Truth" which is under the review.🤖
Apr 11
🚀My conference paper titled "UMAP for Dimensionality Reduction in Sleep Stage Classification Using EEG Data" is accepted by EMBC 2024Wonderful news!🎉
2023
May 11
🌟Junjie Huang's conference paper titled "Smile Recognition Based on Comprehensive Dataset Construction and BayesianNeural Architecture Search" is accepted by ICIGP 2023, which I served as a co-author! Congratulations!🎉
2022
Nov 01
🚀My conference paper titled "A Lightweight Object Grasping Network using GhostNet" is accepted by FGIP 2022! Wonderful news!🎉