
About Me
I am a first-year Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, supervised by Prof. Derek Hoiem.
I obtained my master's degree from the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Laurent Itti and Prof. Ram Nevatia. Before that, I got my B.S. degree from Fudan University.
My research interests mainly lie in computer vision, especially in:
Interactive AI: introduce human's prior knowledge to models to help it simulate human cognitive ability.
Explainable AI: give insights into how models perceive the world to enable a transparent latent space.
Robustness: real-world robust learning systems; robustness to image distortions and adversarial examples.
News
NEW [08/16/2022] Two papers accepted to WACV 2023.
[07/03/2022] Contributions of Shape, Texture, and Color in Visual Recognition accepted to ECCV 2022.
[04/13/2022] I will become a CS Ph.D. student at UIUC this fall.
[06/26/2021] Contrastive Learning for Domain Transfer in Cross-Corpus Emotion Recognition accepted to ACII 2021 as Oral.
Selected Publications (* Equal Contribution)

A Peek Into the Reasoning of Neural Networks: Interpreting with Structural Visual Concepts
Yunhao Ge, Yao Xiao, Zhi Xu, Meng Zheng, Srikrishna Karanam, Terrence Chen, Laurent Itti and Ziyan Wu.
IEEE/ CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
[Abstract] [Paper] [Code] [Website] [Video] [Poster] [Bibtex]Research Experiences
Computer Vision Group, UIUC, Champaign, IL
Research Assistant. August 2022 – Present
Advisor: Prof. Derek Hoiem
IRIS Computer Vision Lab, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Research Assistant. May 2021 – May 2022
Advisor: Prof. Ram Nevatia
iLab, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Research Assistant. August 2020 – December 2021
Advisor: Prof. Laurent Itti
Blog
A place to record my feelings, exploration, and growth. I intend to be casual here, so I decided to use Mandarin for some posts.
- NEW [06/07/2022] 100 Day Paper Challenge
100 Day Paper Challenge, read one paper per day.
- [04/27/2022] An Excerpt from Crafting Your Research Future
This is an excerpt from Crafting Your Research Future: A Guide to Successful Masters and PhD Degrees in Science Engineering.
Academic Services
Reviewer
Conference: CVPR (2023, 2022), ICLR 2023, WACV 2023, ECCV 2022, TCV@CVPR 2022, AIBSD@AAAI 2022.
Journal: IEEE Access.