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Prof. Kaiyang Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, specializing in machine learning and computer vision. He has published over 30 technical papers in leading venues, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, as well as in top journals like IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIP, and IJCV. His work has been cited over 18,000 times. He is currently an associate editor for the International Journal of Computer Vision and regularly serves as an area chair for prestigious conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS, and ICLR. Before joining HKBU, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, working with Prof. Ziwei Liu and Prof. Chen Change Loy. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Surrey, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Tao Xiang.

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To prospective students: Our lab is working on multimodal AI (VLMs, LLMs, reasoning, agents, GenAI). If you are interested in joining us (PhD/MPhil/RA/intern), please drop me an email with your CV. Due to the high volume of inquiries, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

News

• [2025-09] Our edited book Large Vision-Language Models is online.
• [2025-08] Invited to serve as area chair of CVPR 2026 and ICLR 2026.
• [2025-07] Invited to serve as area chair of AAAI 2026.

Latest Research

• HumbleBench: Measuring Epistemic Humility in Multimodal LLMs
• Grounded Chain-of-Thought Makes Multimodal LLMs More Data-Efficient
• Fine-Tuning 13B LLM or Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Within a Single 24GB GPU
• Watermarking Autoregressive Image Generation Models
• Mitigating Shortcuts in Visual Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning