About Me

Hi, I am Yuanming Shao. I am a second-year master’s student at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Computer and Information Science (CIS) Department, where I am fortunate to work with Ryan Marcus and Zack Ives. Before this, I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from ShanghaiTech University.

You can find me at linkedin or email me shaoym@seas.upenn.edu.

I’m always happy to chat — feel free to drop me an email about research or anything else on your mind. I’ve been lucky to be surrounded by wonderful friends, collaborators, and mentors, and I try to keep an optimistic outlook on life. And if you ever just need someone to talk to, feel free to reach out.

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in efficient and interpretable machine learning, deep generative models, machine learning systems, and the design of agentic harnesses.

Publications

Data Canvas: A Provenance-Guided Harness for Agentic Data Engineering.
COLM’26
Zixuan Yi, Yuanming Shao, Shaun Wallace, Zachary Ives, Ryan Marcus

IGAMT: Privacy-Preserving Electronic Health Record Synthesization with Heterogeneity and Irregularity.
AAAI’24
Wenjie Wang, Pengfei Tang, Jian Lou, Yuanming Shao, Lance Waller, Yi-an Ko, Li Xiong [code] [paper] [poster]

We present IGAMT, the Imitative Generative Adversarial Mixed-embedding Transformer to generate differentially private EHR with sophisticated characteristics.

Teaching Experience

CIS 4190/5190 Applied Machine Learning, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

CS 182 Introduction to Machine Learning, ShanghaiTech University
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2023