Linrong (Chris) Cai

linrong.cai@princeton.edu

I'm Linrong (Chris) Cai, a M.S.E. student in Computer Science at Princeton University. Previously a Math and CS undergraduate at University of Wisconsin Madison. My current research focuses on reasoning in vision-language models, working with Professor Zhuang Liu at Princeton.

I have done research with Professor Jelena Diakonikolas and Professor Frederic Sala. I am fortunate to be mentored by Gabe Sarch at Princeton, Dyah Adila, Nicholas Roberts, and Nikos Zarifis at UW-Madison.

Miscellaneous · GitHub

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Publications

Stronger Than You Think: Benchmarking Weak Supervision on Realistic Tasks   (NeurIPS 2024 D&B)
Linrong Cai*, Tianyi Zhang*, Nicholas Roberts, Jeffrey Li, Neel Guha, and Frederic Sala
Zero-Shot Robustification of Zero-Shot Models   (ICLR 2024)
Dyah Adila*, Changho Shin*, Linrong Cai, and Frederic Sala

Research

Research with Professor Zhuang Liu Fall 2025 – present

Reasoning Vision-Language Models.

Research with Professor Jelena Diakonikolas Summer 2024 – Spring 2025

Learning with Distribution Mixtures and Noise.

Research with Professor Frederic Sala Summer 2022 – Fall 2024

Weak Supervision, Alignment, and Robustification.

Madison Experimental Mathematics Lab — advised by Professor Caglar Uyanik Spring 2022

Studied the probability that two random elements of SL2(Z) generate a free group.

Education

Courses taken

Princeton University (M.S.E. in Computer Science)
Fall 2025 – Spring 2027

GPA 4.000/4.000

University of Wisconsin Madison (B.S. in Math & CS)
Fall 2021 – Spring 2025

GPA 3.974/4.000

Tianjin No. 1 High School (Experimental Class)
Fall 2018 – Spring 2021

Service

At Princeton

COS 240 Preceptor — Professor Ran Raz Spring 2026
COS 240 Preceptor — Professor Zeev Dvir Fall 2025

At Madison

Math Tutor — University Housing Fall 2024, Spring 2025
CS 541 (DS Theory & Algorithms) Grader — Professor Jelena Diakonikolas Spring 2024
MATH 475 (Combinatorics) Grader Fall 2023, Spring 2024
CS 540 (Intro to AI) Peer Mentor Fall 2023, Spring 2024
MATH 435 (Cryptography) Grader — Professor Eric Bach Fall 2022

Others

Reviewer: NeurIPS 2025

Miscellaneous

Office Hours

Monday 5pm to 7pm · Tuesday 4pm to 6pm · FC 010

Website design adapted from Professor Tej Chajed.