About Me

Hi! I am a Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University, advised by Prof. Xueru Zhang. My research interests lie in socially responsible generative AI. Prior to joining OSU, I received my M.S. in Computer Science and Technology from Sun Yat-sen University in 2023, where I worked with Prof. Wuhui Chen on scalable blockchain systems. I received my B.S. in Software Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2020.

Selected Publications

• Zhongteng Cai, Yaxuan Wang, Yang Liu, Xueru Zhang. ‘‘Stabilizing self-consuming diffusion models with latent space filtering.’’ The 40th Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2026).

• Zhongteng Cai, Mohammad Mahdi Khalili, Xueru Zhang. ‘‘Demographic-Agnostic Fairness without Harm.’’ The 8th AAAI Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) (2025).

• Zhongteng Cai, Xueru Zhang, Mohammad Mahdi Khalili. ‘‘Privacy-aware Randomized Quantization via Linear Programming.’’ The 40th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) (2024).

• Zhongteng Cai, Junyuan Liang, Wuhui Chen, Zicong Hong, Hong-Ning Dai, Jianting Zhang, Zibin Zheng. ‘‘Benzene: Scaling Blockchain with Cooperation-Based Sharding.’’ IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) (2023).