Mellon M. Zhang

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

I am a current MS student at Georgia Tech and a graduate research assistant in the Gigascale Reliable Energy-Efficient Nanosystem (GREEN) Lab, advised by Professor Saibal Mukhopadhyay. I will be starting my PhD in Machine Learning in Fall 2025. I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2023 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

My research interests can be described succinctly as designing robust and reliable robotics algorithms for the dynamic real world. To this end, I currently work on spatiotemporal streaming and memory-augmented perception, and causal reasoning for vision-language-action models. In my undergrad years, I explored dense associative memories for robust image classification as part of a summer undergraduate research fellowship experience at Georgia Tech. I was also a research assistant and Rose Hills Fellow in the UC Berkeley Knight Lab, working with Professor Robert Knight on circuit-tracing large language foundation models from a neuroscience perspective.

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Apr 28, 2025

Our work on Polar Hierarchical Mamba: Towards Streaming LiDAR Object Detection with Point Clouds as Egocentric Sequences was accepted to the 4DV: Modeling the Dynamic World workshop @ CVPR 2025.

Aug 1, 2023

I started my MS at Georgia Tech.

May 13, 2023

I graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Computer Science.

Mar 30, 2022

I was awarded a Berkeley SURF Rose Hills Fellowship.

Aug 26, 2021

I received the 2nd prize at the Georgia Tech Summer Research Symposium.

May 24, 2021

I began my SURE fellowship at Georgia Tech.