Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
ShengYun (Anthony) Peng
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Jan. 2022 — present
M.S. in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Jan. 2021 — Dec. 2022
B.Eng. in Civil Engineering
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Outstanding Graduates Award of Shanghai
Sept. 2015 — June 2020
Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology (CSST) Program
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
July 2019 — Sept. 2019
Industry Experience
Nvidia, Santa Clara, CA
May 2026 — present
Meta, New York, NY
May 2025 — Dec. 2025
Meta, Menlo Park, CA
May 2024 — Dec. 2024
IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY
Feb. 2024 — May 2024
Intel, Hillsboro, OR
May 2022 — Aug. 2022
Awards and Honors
Oral Paper Award
UNDREAM is an oral presentation at PAKDD 2026
2026
Oral Paper Award
UniTable is an oral presentation at NeurIPS 2024 Workshop
2024
Oral Paper Award
Self-supervised table structure recognition is an oral presentation at AAAI 2024 Workshop
2024
Oral Paper Award
Transformer for table structure recognition is an oral presentation at NeurIPS 2023 Workshop
2023
BMVC 2023 Best Poster Award
Only five of the accepted papers are selected for the award
2023
Outstanding Gradutes in Shanghai
For top 5% undergraduates graduating in 2020.
2020
National Scholarship
Stipend awarded to top 2% undergraduates in all China's universities.
2017 — 2018
Tongji University Excellent Student
For top 5% undergraduates in Tongji University.
2017 — 2018
First Prize of Tongji University Scholarship of Excellence
For outstanding undergraduates in Tongji University.
2016 — 2017
Publications
PAKDD. 2026.
In submission. 2026.
EMNLP. 2025.
NeurIPS. 2025.
AAAI Demo. 2025.
ICCV. 2025.
ACL. 2025.
NeurIPS. 2024.
NeurIPS TRL Workshop. 2024.
AAAI SDU Workshop. 2024.
NeurIPS TRL Workshop. 2023.
ICLR Tiny Papers Track. 2024.
BMVC. 2023.
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS). 2023.
ECCV AROW Workshop. 2022.
CVPR Demo. 2022.
Smart Structures and Systems. 2021.
Signal Processing, Image Communication. 2020.
Signal, Image and Video Processing. 2019.
IEEE Access. 2019.
22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION). 2019.
Teaching
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Data and Visual Analytics (CSE 6242),
Instructor:
Duen Horng Chau & Mahdi Roozbahani
Organized project teams, graded projects, and held weekly office hours for an online graduate course with 1k+ students enrolled.
Spring 2025
Grants and Funding
Attack and Defense on Object Detector
Co-authored research proposal from Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
PIs:
Duen Horng Chau,
Wenke Lee
2024 — 2026
Document Understanding
Co-authored research proposal from Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Inc.
2022 — 2023
Talks
Safety Alignment of Generative Foundation Models
Georgia Tech Thesis Proposal
Nov. 2025
IBM Research
Nov. 2025
Microsoft Research
Mar. 2026
Capital One Research
Mar. 2026
Tesla AI
Mar. 2026
Georgia Tech HotCSE Event
Apr. 2026
UniTable: Towards a Unified Table Foundation Model
ADP AI Community of Practice Meetup
Mar. 2024
Self-supervised Pre-training for Table Structure Recognition Transformer
AAAI 2024 Scientific Document Understanding Workshop
Feb. 2024
High-Performance Transformers for Table Structure Recognition Need Early Convolutions
NeurIPS 2023 2nd Table Representation Workshop
Dec. 2023
Robust Principles
DARPA GARD PI Meeting (Evaluation 7)
Oct. 2023
Exploration of Robust Model Architectures
DARPA GARD PI Meeting (Evaluation 6)
May 2023
In Search of Robust Architectures against Adversarial Attacks
Intel Labs (Internship Report)
Aug. 2022
A New Siamese-based Tracking for Structural Health Monitoring
International Workshop on Data Science in Civil Engineering
June 2019
Service
Program Commitee
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
(SDM)
2024
Reviewer
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP)
2026
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL)
2025
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
(TIP)
2025
Multimedia Systems
2025
Scientific Reports
2023
ICCV Workshop
2023
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
2023
ICML Workshop
2023
Signal Processing: Image Communication
2022
SN Applied Sciences
2022
Pattern Recognition
2020
IEEE Access
2020
Mentoring
MS in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Aug. 2025 — Dec. 2025
MS in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: CS PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology
Apr. 2023 — Dec. 2025
BS in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: ML PhD at Carnegie Mellon University
Aug. 2022 — May 2023
M.S. in Analytics - Data Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
May 2022 — May 2023
M.S. in Computational Data Analytics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: AI Research Tech - Senior Associate at JPMorgan Chase
Oct. 2021 — May 2022