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zwangmw@cse.ust.hk

Resumé (CV)

Zedong (Jacky) is a first-year CSE PhD student at HKUST, advised by Prof. Dan Xu. Prior to this, he was a visiting student at Westlake University, advised by Chair Prof. Stan Z. Li (IEEE/IAPR Fellow). He received his bachelor’s degree in Electronic Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where he was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Xinggang Wang.

His research aims to build scalable multi-task AI systems that perceive and interact with the world as holistically, efficiently, and actively as humans do. Previously, he worked on (i) multi-task learning and generation: Rep-MTL (ICCV’25 Highlight), MergeVQ (CVPR’25). (ii) visual representation learning: MogaNet (ICLR’24), OpenMixup. He is also fascinated by leveraging AI tools to accelerate scientific discovery in domains like biology and human diseases.

He has been recognized as Outstanding Reviewer at several leading venues, including NLDL’26, BMVC’25, ICLR’25 (2.6%), UniReps’25, ECCV’24 (2.7%), ACM MM’24, and BMVC’24.

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News

Nov 11, 2025 I was recognized as Outstanding Reviewer at BMVC 2025 (rate: 21.3%, 247/1,161).
Nov 11, 2025 I was recognized as Outstanding Reviewer at NLDL 2026 (1 of 22 awardees).
Oct 14, 2025 I received the Best Reviewer Award at UniReps 2025 (one of the two awardees).
Jul 24, 2025 One paper on multi-task learning, Rep-MTL, got accepted at ICCV 2025 and was selected as Highlight presentation (rate: 2.3%).
May 20, 2025 I was recognized as Notable Reviewer at ICLR 2025 (rate: 2.6%, 473/18,323).
May 16, 2025 One paper on (M)LLM optimizers, SGG, got accepted at ACL 2025 (main).
Apr 04, 2025 One co-authored paper on visual generation, MergeVQ, got accepted at CVPR 2025.
Mar 01, 2025 My suggestion to introduce distinct Borderline Accept/Reject (BA/BR) ratings for initial reviews was acknowledged by ICCV 2025 Program Chairs, and was officially adopted and implemented at ICCV 2025. Happy to contribute to the community!
Nov 04, 2024 I was recognized as Outstanding Reviewer at ACM MM 2024 (rate: 139/x).
Nov 04, 2024 I was recognized as Outstanding Reviewer at BMVC 2024 (rate: 19.3%, 166/860).
Sep 24, 2024 I was recognized as Outstanding Reviewer at ECCV 2024 (rate: 2.7%, 198/7,293).

Selected Publications

  1. ICCV25 Highlight
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    Rep-MTL: Unleashing the Power of Representation-level Task Saliency for Multi-Task Learning
    Zedong Wang, Siyuan Li, and Dan Xu
    ICCV (Highlight, Top 2.3%), 2025
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  2. ICLR24_MogaNet.png
    MogaNet: Multi-order Gated Aggregation Network
    Siyuan Li*, Zedong Wang*, Zicheng Liu, and 6 more authors
    ICLR, 2024
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    MergeVQ: A Unified Framework for Visual Generation and Representation with Disentangled Token Merging and Quantization
    Siyuan Li, Luyuan Zhang, Zedong Wang, and 8 more authors
    CVPR, 2025
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    Taming LLMs by Scaling Learning Rates with Gradient Grouping
    Siyuan Li*, Juanxi Tian*, Zedong Wang*, and 4 more authors
    ACL (Main), 2025
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    Short-Long Convolutions Help Hardware-Efficient Linear Attention to Focus on Long Sequences
    Zicheng Liu, Siyuan Li , Li Wang, and 3 more authors
    ICML, 2024
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    OpenMixup: Open Mixup Toolbox and Benchmark for Visual Representation Learning
    Siyuan Li*, Zedong Wang*, Zicheng Liu, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.04851, 2022
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    OpenSTL: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Spatio-Temporal Predictive Learning
    Cheng Tan, Siyuan Li, Zhangyang Gao, and 5 more authors
    NeurIPS, 2023
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Services

Conference Reviewer / PC Member:

  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024 (TinyPapers), 2025, 2026
  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024, 2025
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024, 2025
  • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025, 2026
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2024
  • IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026
  • BMVA The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2024, 2025
  • IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2024
  • Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL), 2026

Journal Reviewer:

  • Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

Membership:

  • The British Machine Vision Association (BMVA), Student Member, 2025-present
  • The Computer Vision Foundation (CVF), Member, 2025-present
  • China Computer Federation (CCF), Student Member, 2024-2026
  • China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), Student Member, 2023-2024

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