Guorui Sang

Guorui Sang

PhD Student in Computer Science

Department of Computer Science • University of Illinois at Chicago

Machine LearningProbabilistic ModelsDiffusion Models

I am a PhD student in Computer Science with a focus on generative models, especially probabilistic methods like diffusion models

Research Interests

Machine Learning
Probabilistic Models
Diffusion Models

Publications

Recent research contributions and publications

2024

Conference Featured
2024

ConSinger: Efficient High-Fidelity Singing Voice Generation with Minimal Steps

Yulin Song*, Guorui Sang*, Jing Yu, Chuangbai Xiao

* Equal contribution

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

We present a novel approach to solving X problem in machine learning...

2023

Book
2023

《计算机考研精炼 1000 题》(Computer Science Graduate Examination: 1000 Exercises)

睿德, 非晚, 宇航, 栗子

Tsinghua University Press

Published under the pen name '宇航'

Featured Projects

Open-source projects and research implementations

Research on Robotic Arm Simulation Using Diffusion Probabilistic Fields

Featured

Aug 2025 - Present

  • Applied diffusion probabilistic fields to the generation of robotic arm trajectories.
  • Created energy terms in the sampling stage, and used Langevin dynamics to steer the generated trajectory towards physically plausible quaternions and velocities, further utilized a Hamiltonian Neural Network to guide the torques applied to each joint to ground-truth torques.
  • Demonstrated possibility of accelerating robotic simulation through GPU-based generative models and the ability to flexibly extend the length of the generated trajectory.
RoboticsDiffusion ModelsEnergy-based models

Research on Singing Voice Generation

Featured

Jul 2024 - Dec 2024

  • Developed ConSinger, a consistency model-based singing voice synthesis system.
  • Designed a novel scorer mechanism to identify optimal restoration points during training for efficient mel-spectrogram generation from music scores.
  • Improved the generation quality (+1.16 MOS) at a 10% reduction in the generation speed.
Singing Voice SynthesisDiffusion ModelsConsistency Models

Research on Pose Transfer Using Diffusion Models

Featured

Oct 2023 - Feb 2025

  • Designed a three-branch U-Net structure that incorporates conditional image features effectively.
  • Created a self-designed mixed classifier-free guidance to stably control the strength of different conditions.
  • Demonstrated faster convergence, reduced 10%-50% parameters than SOTA models back then, and achieved comparable SSIM and PSNR.
Conditional Image GenerationDiffusion Models

Experience

Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

Teaching Aug 2025 - Dec 2025
  • Leading labs for Matlab course for 30+ students
  • Held weekly office hours and graded exams and projects
  • Developed supplementary course materials

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL, USA

Aug 2025 - Present

Advisor: Professor Pedram Rooshenas

Focus: Generative models, Probabilistic Models, Diffusion Models

Conducting research on robust and interpretable machine learning systems.

M.S. in Computer Science

Beijing University of Technology

Beijing, China

Sep 2022 - Jul 2025 GPA: 3.94/4.0

Specialized in conditional image generation using diffusion models.

B.S. in Software Engineering

Hainan University

Haikou, Hainan, China

Sep 2017 - Jul 2021 GPA: 3.66/4.0

Mastered essential knowledge in computer science and software engineering.

Skills & Expertise

Programming Languages

PythonC/C++CSS/HTML

Machine Learning

PyTorchPyTorch-Lignthing

Tools & Platforms

GitLinuxJupyter

Areas of Expertise

Machine LearningDeep LearningComputer VisionGenerative ModelsDiffusion Models