Has led several major projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Excellent Young Scientists Fund, the Ministry of Science and Technology's Innovation 2030 Major Project on New Generation Artificial Intelligence, the National Natural Science Foundation of China's General and Youth Projects, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's 'Hong Kong Scholar', the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Support Special Project, and the Beijing and Shanghai Natural Science Foundation General Projects. He has published over 130 academic papers in top international journals and conferences, with more than 100 as first or corresponding author in CCF A-class or CAS Zone 1 journals. His proposed regularization theory and methods from vectors to tensors have gained recognition from many peers, with Google citations exceeding 16,000. The image restoration algorithm he proposed won two championships in the Image Dehazing and Demosaicking tracks of the IEEE CVPR NTIRE 2020 challenge. He has served as an Associate Editor of the top journal IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Area Chair/Senior PC for IJCAI2019-2022, Area Chair for CIKM2019, and Area Chair for AAAI2025. His research achievements have been recognized with the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award (Second Prize), the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Grand Prize (Tenth Winner), the Fujian Province Natural Science Award (Second Prize), and the Automation Society Natural Science Award (Second Prize).
Research Experience
Served as an assistant researcher (2013) and associate researcher (2016) at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2014, he was awarded the title of 'Hong Kong Scholar' by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Postdoctoral Management Committee, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Polytechnic University for two years.
Education
Received a Master's degree in Engineering from Xiamen University in 2010 and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013.
Background
Currently a professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, full-time mentor at Shanghai Chuangzhi College, doctoral supervisor, National Outstanding Youth, Minjiang Distinguished Professor, and Chongqing Outstanding Youth. His main research areas include computer vision and machine learning, with current research focusing on simulation/decision-making for autonomous driving, continual learning for large models, and self-evolving agents.
Miscellany
Recruiting doctoral students, with 2-3 positions available in 2026. Interested candidates can submit their resumes. Research interests include continuous intelligence. Students interested in Foundation Model, Self-Evo Agent, autonomous driving, and Embodied AI are welcome to contact yxie@cs.ecnu.edu.cn.