Bo Zhang
Scholar

Bo Zhang

Google Scholar ID: PefHCMUAAAAJ
Zhejiang University, ZJU100 Young Professor | Prev DeepSeek, Microsoft Research
Multimodal language modelsComputational photographyComputer visionGenerative models
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
7,776
 
H-index
27
 
i10-index
33
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
28
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published several significant projects including DeepSeek-VL (a prestigious multimodal language model), DeepSeek LLM (a prestigious open-source large language model), DreamCraft3D (hierarchical 3D generation with bootstrapped diffusion prior), etc. Additionally, the work “Bringing Old Photos Back to Life” was listed as one of the top 30 AI advancements in 2020 by the renowned AI media louisbouchard.ai.
Research Experience
  • Currently a ZJU 100 Young Professor (Ph.D. supervisor) at Zhejiang University. Previously served as a senior researcher at Visual Computing Group of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and AI research scientist at DeepSeek.
Education
  • Received Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2019; received Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2013.
Background
  • Research interests include 2D/3D content creation, virtual human modeling, multimodal models, and embodied intelligence. Contributions to the field of content generation include the high-quality image translation CoCosNet series (with CoCosNet v2 being a CVPR 2021 Best Paper nominee), the industry’s first text-to-image generation diffusion model VQ-Diffusion, the first high-quality 3D diffusion generation model Rodin, the 3D generation technology DreamCraft 3D, and the well-known open-source multimodal large model DeepSeek-VL.
Miscellany
  • Open to welcoming self-motivated PhD candidates, Master’s and Bachelor’s students, postdocs, and research assistants. Also looking for research collaboration with industry and research labs.