Chengsong Zhang 张诚松

I obtained my MSCS degree from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in May 2025. I got my BSE, CSE degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and BSE, ECE degree from UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, both in August 2023.

I am generally interested in visual generation. I am currently working on Systems for Diffusion Transformers (DiT), focusing on building industry-level open-source visual generation systems that are efficient, scalable, and user-friendly. My goal is to make these advanced technologies accessible to a broader audience.

Previously, I was an open-source code contributor and an acedemic researcher. As an open-source contributor, my major contributions are Segment Anything and AnimateDiff extension for Stable Diffusion WebUI. As an academic researcher, I’m fortunate to have collaborated with Fan Lai on image generation systems; Daniel Kang on database management systems, and Mosharaf Chowdhury on federated learning systems.

During my spare time, I enjoy Japanese Anime, guitar fingerstyle and traveling in nature spots. You can get a full list of all the TV anime series I watched from bangumi (CN). I also hang around by bus, especially double-deck buses and rural buses. I occasionally feed butterflies, especially Kallima Inachus.