Katherine Xu

CS PhD Student • University of Pennsylvania

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I am a CS PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania (2023-) advised by Professor Jianbo Shi. I work on improving creativity and controllability for multimodal foundation models, with a focus on visual generation and understanding. My research is supported by the NDSEG Fellowship. I have also had the pleasure of interning at Meta Superintelligence Labs and Adobe.

I received my bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science (Course 6-3) from MIT, where I conducted research at MIT CSAIL, MIT Quest for Intelligence, and MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative.

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Awards

2024
NDSEG Fellowship (4.9% acceptance rate)

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CIS 6800 Advanced Topics in Machine Perception (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)