Kaiyang Zhou

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong Baptist University
Email: kyzhou [at] hkbu.edu.hk

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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, and top journals like IEEE TPAMI and IJCV. His work has received over 15,000 citations. He serves as an Associate Editor of IJCV, the flagship journal in computer vision, and regularly takes on roles such as Area Chair for major conferences like CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS, and ICLR. He is also the creator of influential AI software packages such as Torchreid (the No.1 popular person re-identification software on GitHub, 4.6k+ stars), Dassl (a multifunctional machine learning framework, 1.3k+ stars), and CoOp (a prompt learning toolbox for vision-language models, 2k+ stars). 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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Recent Research

• 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