About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Associate at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), working with Prof. Fahad Shahbaz Khan and Prof. Rao Muhammad Anwer.

I received my Ph.D. in Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, advised by Prof. Jian Yang (IAPR Fellow) and Prof. Zhenyong Fu. Previously, I was a Research Assistant at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, advised by Prof. Chang Wen Chen (IEEE Fellow; SPIE Fellow; MAE).

My research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computer Vision (CV), with special interest in:

  • Multimodal Understanding: Exploring Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) that integrate image, language, and 3D information for generalizable understanding, building on prior work in zero-shot learning.
  • Spatial Intelligence: Developing the ability to understand spatial structures and relationships, reason across perspectives, and maintain a coherent understanding of the physical world.
  • Embodied Intelligence: Exploring World Models (WM) / World Action Models (WAM) to predict how environments evolve and how actions shape them, supporting planning and interaction in the physical world.

Together, these directions connect multimodal understanding with spatial intelligence to support perception, planning, and action in the physical world.

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Recent News

I am presenting Ground3D-LMM at the 2nd Visual Intelligence International Postdoctoral and Doctoral Academic Frontier Symposium on October 17. Announcement ↗

Large Kernel Network for Efficient Image Restoration is published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP). Paper ↗

New preprint: AgroGround: Multi-Granularity Grounded Recognition in Agriculture. Preprint ↗

Ground3D-LMM is published at ECCV 2026. I am a corresponding author. Paper ↗

New preprint: Gaussian-JEPA: Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning for 3D Gaussian Splats. Preprint ↗

Thinking Beyond Labels is published at CVPR 2026. Paper ↗

I was invited to serve as a discussant at the 21st CSIG Student Member Sharing Forum. Announcement ↗

New preprint: Audit After Segmentation: Reference-Free Mask Quality Assessment for Language-Referred Audio-Visual Segmentation. Preprint ↗

Bring Your Dreams to Life is published at AAAI 2026. Paper ↗

MIRA is published at ACM Multimedia 2025. Paper ↗

All in One is published at ICCV 2025. Paper ↗

Research Output

Published Papers

Preprints

Talks & Events

Speaker

Ground3D-LMM: Fine-Grained 3D Grounding and Spatial Reasoning for the Physical World

2nd Visual Intelligence International Postdoctoral and Doctoral Academic Frontier Symposium

Announcement ↗
Invited discussant

21st CSIG Student Member Sharing Forum

Chinese Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG)

Announcement ↗
Speaker

Unified 3D Point Cloud Segmentation by Integrating Visual and Language Knowledge

Chuangye Heima (Dark Horse) · AI Scientist Talk Series, Vol. 25

Poster ↗

Experience

Postdoctoral Associate

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Abu Dhabi, UAE. Advisors: Prof. Fahad Shahbaz Khan and Prof. Rao Muhammad Anwer.

Research Assistant

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong SAR, China. Advised by Prof. Chang Wen Chen.

Education

Ph.D. in Engineering

Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. Advisors: Prof. Jian Yang and Prof. Zhenyong Fu.

B.Eng. in Engineering

Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant MBZUAI

CV8503 Advanced Topics in Large Multimodal Models
AI701 Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

Prepared laboratory materials, taught lab sessions, graded assignments, and discussed course projects with students.

Guest Lecturer MBZUAI

CV805 Lifelong Learning

Delivered a lecture on open-vocabulary learning.

Awards & Honors

  • 2024
    Outstanding Graduate of Jiangsu Province
  • 2023
    Merit Student of Jiangsu Province
  • 2022
    National Scholarship Top 2%, China
  • 2022
    Principal’s Medal of NJUST Awarded to 10 postgraduate students annually
  • 2021
    Huawei Scholarship
  • 2021–2023
    Excellent Ph.D. Students Sponsorship Program, NJUST
  • 2018–2024
    First-Class Scholarship, NJUST Awarded multiple times during doctoral studies

Academic Service

Journal Reviewer

IEEE TPAMI · IJCV · IEEE TIP · Neurocomputing · Computer Vision and Image Understanding · Neural Processing Letters

Conference Reviewer

CVPR · NeurIPS · ICML · ICLR · AAAI · ICCV · ECCV · ACM MM · ICME · ICIG · ACM Multimedia Asia

Discussions & Collaborations

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