Chenrui Ma
zzz8fa [at] virginia.edu
chenrum [at] uci.edu

Chenrui Ma

Ph.D. Student @ UVA · MSCS @ UCI

I will be joining the University of Virginia as a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, where I will be affiliated with the RAISE Lab and advised by Prof. Ferdinando Fioretto. Currently, I am a Master's student at the University of California, Irvine, working as a Research Assistant in the Trustworthy ML/AI Group advised by Prof. Yanning Shen. I am also a student collaborator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

I received my bachelor's degree from Central South University (中南大学). During my senior year, I studied as an exchange student at the University of California, Irvine, where I completed my undergraduate thesis and graduate-level coursework. My Chinese name is 马晨睿.

Open to research internships, visiting opportunities, and collaborations. If my work aligns with your interests or you just want to say Hi, I'd be delighted to connect:)

Experience


Research Assistant
RAISE Lab @ UVA
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Teaching Assistant
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA
Assisted the professor with teaching and grading, and organized course discussions.
Student Collaborator
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Remote
Research Assistant
Trustworthy ML/AI Group @ UCI
Irvine, California, USA
Advised by Prof. Yanning Shen.

Education


Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA · Expected 2030
M.S. in Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA · Expected 2026
Exchange Student in Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
UCI 3+2 Engineering program
B.S. in Computer Science
Central South University
Changsha, Hunan, China


Research Interest




News


2026
2025


Selected Publications (see full list here; * indicates equal contribution)

Drift Flow Matching overview
Chenrui Ma, Xi Xiao, Lin Zhao, Tianyang Wang, Ferdinando Fioretto, Yanning Shen
Drift Flow Matching
arXiv [Paper]
Bridging one-step drift models and iterative flow matching for adaptive quality-efficiency sampling

Transition Flow Matching overview
Chenrui Ma
Transition Flow Matching
arXiv [Paper]
Direct transition-flow learning for one-step or arbitrary-time generation

CAD-VAE overview
Chenrui Ma, Xi Xiao, Tianyang Wang, Xiao Wang, Yanning Shen
CAD-VAE: Leveraging Correlation-Aware Latents for Comprehensive Fair Disentanglement
AAAI 2026 Main Track [Paper] [Code]
Correlation-aware latent modeling for comprehensive fair disentanglement

Stochastic Interpolants overview
Chenrui Ma, Xi Xiao, Tianyang Wang, Xiao Wang, Yanning Shen
Stochastic Interpolants via Conditional Dependent Coupling
arXiv [Paper] [Code]
A coarse-to-fine image generation framework parameterized by a single generative model

Learning Straight Flows overview
Chenrui Ma, Xi Xiao, Tianyang Wang, Xiao Wang, Yanning Shen
Learning Straight Flows: Variational Flow Matching for Efficient Generation
CVPR 2026 Main Conference [Paper] [Code]
Variational flow matching with latent generation overview and straightness loss for efficient one-step generation

StructLoRA overview
Xi Xiao*, Chenrui Ma*, Yunbei Zhang*, Chen Liu, Zhuxuanzi Wang, Yanshu Li, Lin Zhao, Guosheng Hu, Tianyang Wang, Hao Xu
Not All Directions Matter: Toward Structured and Task-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation
ACL 2026 Main Conference [Paper]
Structured task-aware adaptation that filters task-irrelevant update directions without adding inference cost

PROBE overview
Xi Xiao, Zhuxuanzi Wang, Mingqiao Mo, Chen Liu, Chenrui Ma, Yanshu Li, Smita Krishnaswamy, Xiao Wang, Tianyang Wang
Self-Supervised Visual Prompting for Cross-Domain Road Damage Detection
WACV 2026 [Paper] [Code]
Self-supervised defect-aware prompts for cross-domain pavement defect detection



Awards & Honors




Professional Services


Academic Service

Conference reviewer for CVPR 2026 and AAAI 2026.

Teaching Service

Teaching Assistant for UCI EECS 298: Networked System, Spring 2026.




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