Zhenhong Sun
Ph.D. Candidate in Engineering, Australian National University
Email: zhenhongsunny@outlook.com
Research Profile
AI researcher and engineer working across MLLM Understanding and Diffusion Models, 3D Representation and Agentic World Generation, and Adaptive Reasoning and Self-Improving Agents. My work connects controllable media synthesis, editable 3D worlds, and feedback-driven decision making.
Education
Ph.D. Candidature in Engineering
Australian National University, Australia.
Research in multimodal generative AI, 3D world models, and adaptive agent systems.
Supervisors: Prof. Daoyi Dong, Dr. Dong Gong, and Prof. Yuerui Lu.
Master in Optical Engineering
Nanjing University, China.
Bachelor in Information Engineering
Nanjing University, China.
Research Internships
Vertex Lab, V2FUN 3D Startup
Shanghai, China (remote). Research on 3D foundation models and image-to-3D generation, including compact 3D mesh tokenization and reconstruction.
Tencent XR Vision Lab and LightSpeed Studio
Canberra, Australia. Research on controllable text-to-image generation, instance control, and attention modulation.
Employment History
Part-time Research Engineer
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia.
Generative AI, 3D world models, and AI for scientific systems.
Senior Algorithm Engineer
Damo Academy, Alibaba Group, China.
Machine Learning on Computer Vision.
Algorithm Engineer
Tuya Information Technology Co., Ltd, China.
Machine learning on Image/Video Compression.