Hi! I'm Jucheng (Jack) Shen, a junior at Rice University majoring in Computer Science, Math, Econ. I'm interested in diffusion, LLM, and RL.

I'm working with Jiachen Yao and Robert Joseph under Prof. Anima Anandkumar at Caltech. I also work with Prof. Anastasios Kyrillidis at Rice.

Previously, I 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

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

arXiv 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: Simple and Open Recipes for Pre-training Strong Text-to-Image Models

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

coming soon