I am a final year PhD at CMU, advised by Jun-Yan Zhu . These days, I am also working closely with Richard Zhang , Alexei (Alyosha) Efros , Aaron Hertzmann , and David Bau . I am generally interested in image synthesis and understanding deep neural networks. During undergrad, I worked at BAIR with Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang , Andrew Owens and Alexei (Alyosha) Efros . In the past, I have worked on image forensics, and condensed matter physics. My research is supported by Google PhD Fellowship , Snap Research Fellowship , and Uber Presidential Fellowship.
I am on the job market in Spring 2026.
Publications
NP-Edit: Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs
Nupur Kumari ,
Sheng-Yu Wang ,
Nanxuan Zhao ,
Yotam Nitzan ,
Yuheng Li ,
Krishna Kumar Singh ,
Richard Zhang ,
Eli Shechtman ,
Jun-Yan Zhu ,
Xun Huang .
Tech Report, 2025.
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Fast Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models
Sheng-Yu Wang ,
Aaron Hertzmann ,
Alexei A. Efros ,
Richard Zhang ,
Jun-Yan Zhu .
In NeurIPS, 2025.
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Identifying Prompted Artist Names from Generated Images
Grase Su ,
Sheng-Yu Wang ,
Aaron Hertzmann ,
Eli Shechtman ,
Jun-Yan Zhu ,
Richard Zhang .
Tech Report, 2025.
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Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models by Unlearning Synthesized Images
Sheng-Yu Wang ,
Aaron Hertzmann ,
Alexei A. Efros , Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang .
In NeurIPS, 2024.
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Customizing Text-to-Image Models with a Single Image Pair
Maxwell Jones , Sheng-Yu Wang , Nupur Kumari , David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu .
In SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024.
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Evaluating Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models
Sheng-Yu Wang , Alexei A. Efros , Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang .
In ICCV, 2023.
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Ablating Concepts in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Nupur Kumari , Bingliang Zhang , Sheng-Yu Wang , Eli Shechtman , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu .
In ICCV, 2023.
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Content-Based Search for Deep Generative Models
Daohan Lu* , Sheng-Yu Wang* , Nupur Kumari* , Rohan Agarwal* , Mia Tang , David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu .
In SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023.
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Rewriting Geometric Rules of a GAN
Sheng-Yu Wang , David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu .
In SIGGRAPH, 2022.
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Sketch Your Own GAN
Sheng-Yu Wang , David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu .
In ICCV, 2021.
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CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot...for now
Sheng-Yu Wang , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang , Andrew Owens , Alexei A. Efros .
In CVPR, 2020 (oral presentation).
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Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop
Sheng-Yu Wang , Oliver Wang , Andrew Owens , Richard Zhang , Alexei A. Efros .
In ICCV, 2019.
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Reversible writing of high mobility and high carrier density doping patterns in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures
Wu Shi, Salman Khan, Lili Jiang, Sheng-Yu Wang , Hsin-Zon Tsai, Dillon Wong, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Fen Wang, Michael Crommie, Alex Zettl.
Nature Electronics.
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Many thanks to Richard Zhang for sharing his website template!