zwangmw@cse.ust.hk
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I am currently a second-year CSE PhD student at HKUST, advised by Prof. Dan Xu. Prior to this, I was a visiting student at Westlake University, advised by Chair Prof. Stan Z. Li. I completed my B.Eng in Electronic Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Xinggang Wang.
My research goal is to build scalable multi-modal multi-task AI systems that perceive and interact with the world as holistically, efficiently, and actively as humans do. To achieve this, I worked on (i) multi-task multi-modal learning: Rep-MTL (ICCV’25 Highlight, top 2.3%), (ii) image generation and editing: MergeVQ (CVPR’25), CARE-Edit (CVPR’26). (iii) efficient model architectures and MLLM training: MogaNet (ICLR’24), SGG (ACL’25).
I has been recognized as outstanding reviewer at multiple venues, including BMVC’25, ICLR’25 (top 2.6%), UniReps’25, ECCV’24 (top 2.7%), MM’24, and BMVC’24.
News
| Feb 21, 2026 | One paper on image editing, CARE-Edit, got accepted at CVPR 2026. Happy to collaborate with Yucheng Wang. |
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| 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 optimizer, SGG, got accepted at ACL 2025 (main). |
| Apr 04, 2025 | One paper on image 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’25 PCs, and was officially adopted and implemented at ICCV 2025. |
| 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). |
Internship
| Apr 2024 - Feb 2025 | ZEEKR ZID Group, working on efficient multi-task learning in autonomous driving. |
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| Jul 2022 - Apr 2024 | Westlake AI Lab, working on visual representation learning and AI4Science. |
| Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 | SIAT-MMLab, working on semantic segmentation and text spotting. |
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, 2026
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025, 2026
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024, 2026
- 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, 2026
- IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2024
- Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL), 2026
Journal Reviewer:
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
- 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
Teaching Assistant:
- COMP 5212 Machine Learning, Fall 2025, Instructor: Prof. Yi R. (May) Fung
Contacts
Welcome opportunities to exchange ideas or collaborate. I am also looking for internship/job opportunities. Please drop me emails (zedong.wang@connect.ust.hk).