About me

I am an incoming Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech, advised by Prof. Shengwei An. Currently, I am a research intern at Stepfun Stepfun, focusing on RL post-training. Previously, I was a research assistant at AGI Lab, Westlake University, advised by Prof. Chi Zhang and Beier Zhu. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from the School of Mathematical Sciences, OUC Ocean University of China. During my undergraduate studies, I conducted research under the supervision of Prof. Xueying Zeng and Furong Li.

My research interests include Generative Models, Trustworthy AI, and Post-Training.

You can find my CV here: Chenru Wang’s Curriculum Vitae.

News

Pinned [2026] I am looking for 2027 Summer internship opportunities!

[Feb 2026] One paper accepted to CVPR 2026!

[Jan 2026] One paper accepted to ICLR 2026!

[May 2025] One paper accepted to Medical Engineering & Physics.

[Nov 2025] Started remote research at Virginia Tech with Prof. Shengwei An.

[Jul 2025] Joined AGI Lab at Westlake University as a research assistant.

[Jun 2025] Graduated from Ocean University of China with Outstanding Graduate honor.

Selected Publications

Free Lunch for Stabilizing Rectified Flow Inversion

Chenru Wang, Beier Zhu, Chi Zhang

ICLR 2026

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IMS3: Breaking Distributional Aggregation in Diffusion-Based Dataset Distillation

Chenru Wang, Yunyi Chen, Zijun Yang, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Chi Zhang

CVPR 2026

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See full publication list here.

Experience

Stepfun (Research Intern)

RL Post-Training Mar. 2026 – Present

AGI Lab, Westlake University (Advisor: Chi Zhang and Beier Zhu)

Research on Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion models and Flow models Aug. 2025 – Present
Research on Dataset Distillation and Dataset Generation (Co-author) Jul. 2025 – Present
Research on Inversion and Editing Techniques in Generative Models Apr. 2025 – Aug. 2025

Ocean University of China (Advisor: Xueying Zeng)

Research on Detection of Coronary Artery Stenosis Nov. 2022 – Apr. 2024