
COSMIO: A Benchmark for Cross-Survey Modality Imputation
Dichang Zhang, Yixuan Shao, Jiali Cui, Haotian Yin, Yuanpeng Liu, Jiaqi Deng, Xiang Gao, Zhiqiang Lao, Heather Yu, Simon Birrer, Dimitris Samaras
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026. Accepted for publication.
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A General-Purpose VLM Can Teach an Astronomy Foundation Model to Better Recognize Galaxy Morphology
Dichang Zhang, Jiaqi Deng, Yixuan Shao, Yuanpeng Liu, Jiali Cui, Zhiqiang Lao, Heather Yu, Liang Peng, Simon Birrer, Dimitris Samaras
arXiv:2608.02300 [cs.CV], 2026.
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AS-Bridge: A Bidirectional Generative Framework Bridging Next-Generation Astronomical Surveys
Dichang Zhang, Yixuan Shao, Simon Birrer, Dimitris Samaras
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2026.
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Fast and Accurate Emulation of the SDO/HMI Stokes Inversion with Uncertainty Quantification
Richard E. L. Higgins, David F. Fouhey, Dichang Zhang, Spiro K. Antiochos, Graham Barnes, J. Todd Hoeksema, K. D. Leka, Yang Liu, Peter W. Schuck, Tamas I. Gombosi
The Astrophysical Journal, 2021.
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Diffeomorphism-Informed 3D Gaussian Splattings via Screen-Space Optimal Transport (OT)
Xiang Gao, Xiaoping Zhu, Xinmu Wang, Yuanpeng Liu, Haotian Yin, Dichang Zhang, Yazheng Chen, Yue Wang, Yubin Zhou, Yu Guo, Wei Chen, David Gu, Xinyu Song, Heather Yu
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026. Accepted for publication.
Deep Learning-Based Rail Surface Condition Evaluation
Shilin Hu, Ke Ma, Sagnik Das, Dichang Zhang, Dimitris Samaras
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2025.
Adaptive Multitask Neural Network for High-Fidelity Wake Flow Modeling of Wind Farms
Dichang Zhang, Christian Santoni, Zexia Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, Ali Khosronejad
Energies, 2025.
Toward Ultra-Efficient High-Fidelity Predictions of Wind Turbine Wakes: Augmenting the Accuracy of Engineering Models via LES-Trained Machine Learning
Christian Santoni, Dichang Zhang, Zexia Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Ali Khosronejad
Physics of Fluids, 2024.
Transfer Learning in Multi-Fidelity Surrogate Modeling: A Wind Farm Case
Dichang Zhang, Zexia Zhang, Christian Santoni, Ali Khosronejad, Dimitris Samaras
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshops, 2024.
Construction of Multifunctional Boron Nitride Nanosheet Towards Reducing Toxic Volatiles (CO and HCN) Generation and Fire Hazard of Thermoplastic Polyurethane
Junling Wang, Dichang Zhang, Yan Zhang, Wei Cai, Congxue Yao, Yuan Hu, Weizhao Hu
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 362:482–494, 2019.
Scalable One-Step Synthesis of Hydroxylated Boron Nitride Nanosheets for Obtaining Multifunctional Polyvinyl Alcohol Nanocomposite Films: Multi-Azimuth Properties Improvement
Wei Cai, Dichang Zhang, Bo Wang, Yuxuan Shi, Ying Pan, Jin Wang, Wen Hu, Yuan Hu
Composites Science and Technology, 2018.
Construction of Hierarchical Natural Fabric Surface Structure Based on Two-Dimensional Boron Nitride Nanosheets and Its Application for Preparing Biobased Toughened Unsaturated Polyester Resin Composites
Feng Chu, Dichang Zhang, Yifan Hou, Shiyu Qiu, Jin Wang, Wen Hu, Lei Song
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018.