zwangmw@cse.ust.hk
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I am currently a CSE PhD student at HKUST, advised by Prof. Dan Xu. Prior to this, I was a visiting student at Westlake University under Chair Prof. Stan Z. Li (IEEE/IAPR Fellow). 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 overarching goal is to build scalable multimodal machines that can understand, reason, and interact with the world as holistically and efficiently as humans do. To achieve this, I worked on (i) multi-task learning: Rep-MTL (ICCV’25 Highlight, top 2.3%), (ii) multi-modal understanding and generation: CARE-Edit (CVPR’26). (iii) efficient model architectures and optimizers: MogaNet (ICLR’24), SGG (ACL’25).
I am honored to be a recipient of outstanding reviewer award 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. Glad to have worked on this with Yucheng Wang. [Hugging Face] [Wechat] [Video] |
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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%). [Hugging Face] |
| 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
| Jul 2022 - Apr 2024 | Westlake AI Lab, working on visual representation learning and AI4Science. |
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| 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
I am happy to connect, exchange ideas, or explore potential collaborations. I am also looking for internships and full-time opportunities. Please feel free to drop me an email (zedong.wang@connect.ust.hk).