About Me

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.

📚 Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Purdue University, West Lafayette (Aug 2026 - Exp. May 2031)

  • M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Aug 2024 - May 2026)

  • B.E. in Digital Media Technology Communication University of China (Sept 2020 - June 2024)

🔬 Experience

Deep Learning Group, Department of Computer Science Engineering

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Research Intern (June 2025 - May 2026)
Advisor: Prof. Honglak Lee

Mobility Transformation Lab

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Research Intern (Feb 2025 - May 2026)
Advisor: Prof. Henry Liu

Algorithm Intern

DeTool Technology Co., Ltd. Ningbo, China (July 2023 – Aug 2023)

State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication

Communication University of China, Beijing | Research Assistant (Nov 2022 – Dec 2024)
Advisor: Prof. Qi Mao

📝 Publications

  1. Stable Diffusion is a Natural Cross-Modal Decoder for Layered AI-Generated Image Compression.
    Ruijie Chen, Qi Mao, Zhengxue Cheng.
    Accepted by Data Compression Conference (DCC), 2025.
  2. Scalable Face Image Coding via StyleGAN Prior: Towards Compression for Human-Machine Collaborative Vision.
    Qi Mao, Chongyu Wang, Meng Wang, Shiqi Wang, Ruijie Chen, Libiao Jin, Siwei Ma.
    Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2024.