About

Short biography

I was born in Tengchong (腾冲市), a beautiful city in southwest China. After graduating from The First Middle School of Tengchong in 2010, I spent ten years studying in Nanjing, China.

I received my B.Sc. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University in 2014. I received my PhD degree from the LAMDA group, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University in 2020, under the supervision of Professor Wu-Jun Li. PhD thesis: Discrete Hashing Learning [pdf].

I was an algorithm researcher at HuaWei from 2020 to 2024, as a member of Huawei’s top minds project. At Huawei, my work focused on multimodal search (Petal Search) and multimodal large language models (Pangu MLLM).

I am currently an Associate Professor at the School of Compute Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology.

Internship Experience

  1. ByteDance AI Lab (November, 2018~April,2019).

Work Experience

  1. Huawei. September, 2020~June,2024.
  2. Nanjing University of Science and Technology. July, 2024~Now.

Professional Service

  1. IEEE, Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, TPAMI. Journal Reviewer.
  2. IEEE, Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning System, TNNLS. Journal Reviewer.
  3. IEEE, Transactions on Image Processing, TIP. Journal Reviewer.
  4. IEEE, Transactions on Signal Processing, TSP. Journal Reviewer.
  5. IEEE, Transactions on Multimedia, TMM. Journal Reviewer.
  6. ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, CVPR, AAAI, ACCV. Conference Reviewer.
  7. AAAI-2019, AAAI-2020, AAAI-2025. PC member.

Awards

  1. Consumer Cloud Service President’s Award . Huawei (2021).

  2. Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of JSAI . JiangSu Association of Artificial Intelligence (Dec, 2021).

  3. Top Minds Project . Huawei (Step, 2020).

  4. National Graduate Scholarship for Ph.D. student . Nanjing University (Oct, 2018).

  5. National Graduate Scholarship for Master student . Nanjing University (Oct, 2015).

  6. Third place in the Spot Shooting Competition of NJUCS Fun Sports Day . Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University (2015).

  7. Excellent Project Completion in the National Undergraduate Innovation Program . Nanjing University (June, 2014.).