About Me

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, working under the supervision of Dr. Xiaoqian Jiang. Prior to this, I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where I had the honor of working with Dr. Qing Tian. My PhD research interests lie in Computer Vision, with a focus on AI efficiency (including knowledge distillation and pruning), autonomous driving perception, and AI safety. Recently, my work has expanded into Medical AI, large-scale vision models, multi-modal learning frameworks, and agentic AI systems, driven by the growing demand for scalable, generalizable, and trustworthy AI in complex real-world environments. I am also passionate about bridging the gap between academic research and real-world impact, and I am actively exploring entrepreneurial opportunities to translate AI innovations into practical solutions.

Research Interests

• Computer Vision: Object Detection and Tracking, Medical Image Analysis, Visual Generation, and Autonomous Driving Perception.
• Model Compression/Acceleration: Knowledge Distillation, Model Pruning and Acceleration, Lightweight Vision Models for Resource-Constrained Deployment.
• Agentic and Adaptive Learning Systems: Agentic Perception, Continual and Lifelong Learning, Decision-Aware and Task-Oriented Vision Models.
• AI Safety and Robustness: Adversarial Robustness, AI Alignment and Safety, Trustworthy and Reliable AI Systems, Safe Deployment of Agentic AI.

News

• [Apr. 2026] One paper has been accepted to ACL 2026 (Main Conference), see you in San Diego!.
• [Jan. 2026] One paper has been accepted to ICLR 2026.
• [Jan. 2026] One paper has been accepted to ICASSP 2026.
• [Jan. 2026] One paper is accepted to WWW 2026.
• [Nov. 2025] Two papers are accepted to WACV 2026.
• [May. 2025] One paper about Knowledge Distillation is accepted to ICCV 2025.
• [May. 2025] Our paper about Knowledge Graph learning is accepted to ECML-PKDD 2025.
• [May. 2025] I start my post-doc at UTHealth, Houston, with Dr. Jiang
• [May. 2025] I got my Ph.D. from University of Alabama at Birmingham!
• [Mar. 2025] Our paper about Object Tracking Distillation is accepted to IV 2025.
• [Oct. 2024] Our paper about Detector Robustness is accepted to WACV 2025 — 🔥 Oral Presentation
• [Sept. 2024] Our paper about Medical Image Segmentation is accepted to ICTAI 2024.
• [Jan. 2024] I transfer with my advisor (Dr. Tian) to University of Alabama at Birmingham as a computer science Ph.D student.
• [Oct. 2023] Our paper about Gradient Distillation is accepted to WACV 2024.
• [Sept. 2023] Our paper about HOI detection is accepted to ICDMW 2023.
• [Aug. 2022] Our paper about Multiple Teacher Distillation is accepted to T-IV 2022.
• [May. 2022] Our paper about Adaptive Instance Distillation is accepted to ICPR 2022.

Selected Publications

Services

Conference Reviewers

• IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026
• IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025

Journal Reviewers

• npj Digital Medicine
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)