Education & Experience
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
University of Bristol
July 2025 - Present
Machine Learning and Computer Vision at the University of Bristol.
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Edinburgh, UK
August 2022 - October 2023
Working with Dr. Hakan Bilen.
PhD Student
University of Edinburgh, UK
September 2018 – August 2022
Supervised by Dr. Hakan Bilen and Prof. Timothy Hospedales.
Thesis: Learning Universal Representations Across Tasks and Domains.
Examiner: Dr. Amir Zamir, Dr. Laura Sevilla.
Thesis: Learning Universal Representations Across Tasks and Domains.
Examiner: Dr. Amir Zamir, Dr. Laura Sevilla.
Visiting Student
Queen Mary University of London, UK
October 2017 – March 2018
Supervised by Prof. Sean Gong and Prof. Wei-Shi Zheng.
M.Sc. in Electronics and Information Technology
Sun Yat-sen University
June 2015 – July 2018
One of the top ten universities in China.
Thesis: Important People Detection and Cross-Camera Pedestrian Tracking.
Supervised by: Prof. Wei-Shi Zheng.
Thesis: Important People Detection and Cross-Camera Pedestrian Tracking.
Supervised by: Prof. Wei-Shi Zheng.
B.Sc. in Intelligence Science and Technology
Sun Yat-sen University
September 2011 – June 2015, GPA 3.8/4.0
Thesis: Tracking Multiple Targets in Group Activity Scene.
Supervised by: Prof. Wei-Shi Zheng.
Supervised by: Prof. Wei-Shi Zheng.
Services & Organization
Area Chair
ICLR'26
Paper Review
Conference: ICCV'21'23, CVPR'22'23'24, ECCV'22'24, NeurIPS'22'23, ICML'23'24, ICLR'24
Journal/Transaction: TPAMI, IJCV, TMLR, Machine Learning, TMM
Workshop: WIMF'22
Journal/Transaction: TPAMI, IJCV, TMLR, Machine Learning, TMM
Workshop: WIMF'22
Workshop Organization
Selected Awards
- The BMVA Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize Runner-Up
- CVPR 2022 Best Paper Finalist (33/8161)
- Top Reviewer at NeurIPS'23'24
- IGS PhD scholarship at University of Edinburgh
- Academic Excellence Award at Sun Yat-Sen University (2011-2018)
- Best Paper Award at ICIG 2017
- First and Second Prize at Chinese RoboCup Competition (2013-2014)
Teaching
Teaching Assistant at the University of Edinburgh
- Image and Vision Computing (IVC), 2018-19
- Machine Learning Practical (MLP), 2018-19
- Machine Learning Practical (MLP), 2019-20
- Machine Learning Practical (MLP), 2020-21