Hi! I'm Jucheng (Jack) Shen, a senior at Rice University majoring in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Economics. I'm interested in robotics, reinforcement learning, and diffusion models.

I'm working with Jiachen Yao and Robert Joseph under Prof. Anima Anandkumar at Caltech.

Previously, I collaborated with Barbara Su under Prof. Anastasios Kyrillidis at Rice, worked with Boya Zeng under Prof. Zhuang Liu at Princeton, with Yeonju Ro under Prof. Atlas Wang at UT Austin, with Dr. Souvik Kundu at Intel Labs, and with Fanjiang Ye under Prof. Yuke Wang at Rice.

Selected Publications

One Model, Two Roles: Emergent Specialization in a Shared Recurrent Transformer

Jucheng Shen*, Barbara Su*, Anastasios Kyrillidis

NeurIPS 2026 | paper | code | project page

Improving the Throughput of Diffusion-based Large Language Models via a Training-Free Confidence-Aware Calibration

Jucheng Shen, Gaurav Sarkar, Yeonju Ro, Sharath Nittur Sridhar, Zhangyang Wang, Aditya Akella, Souvik Kundu

Findings of ACL 2026 | paper | code

Beyond Static Cutoffs: One-Shot Dynamic Thresholding for Diffusion Language Models

Jucheng Shen, Yeonju Ro

NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop | paper | code

i1: A Simple and Fully Open Recipe for Strong Text-to-Image Models

Boya Zeng, Tianze Luo, Shu Pu, Jucheng Shen, Taiming Lu, Gabriel Herbert Sarch, Zhuang Liu

NeurIPS 2026 BeNTo Workshop | paper | code | data | project page