- Secured Academy Research Fellow funding (622k euros), ranked 1st in AI panel, for 09.2025-08.2029
- Two papers (AffectGPT-Oral and OV-MER) accepted by ICML 2025
- Two papers (Deep Change Monitoring-Spotlight and Privacy-Preserved Re-Id) accepted by CVPR 2025
- Became one of the ELLIS members
- Paper FreeNet about Efficient Vision Architectures accepted by AAAI 2025
- Student Yuting Xie won the ITEE scholarship 2024
- One co-authored paper accepted by ECCV 2024
Research Experience
- Currently a Tenure-track Assistant Professor at CMVS, University of Oulu
- Co-founder of the AI startup Aitomore and an AI-based restaurant Aitofresh
- Conducted Postdoc research at CMVS, University of Oulu, with projects in Emotion AI (Academy Finland project) and trustworthy AI (Infotech project)
Education
- Ph.D.: University of Oulu, supervised by Academy Professor Guoying Zhao
- Master: University of Oulu
- B.E.: China University of Geosciences (China)
- Visited CEL, TUDelft, the Netherlands during Ph.D. study
Background
Research interests include Machine Learning, Human Behaviour Analysis, Emotion AI, and Adversarial Learning. Strongly believes in experiencing, learning, and growing on this planet, which fuels a huge passion for self-development.
Miscellany
Hobbies and interests include street dance (Breakin), snowboarding, basketball, Twitch streaming, reading, writing blogs, keeping daily diary, and Lonkero.