I am an Assistant Professor in the AI thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou campus). I lead the Precognition Lab. I am also an Affiliate Assistant Professor at HKUST computer science & engineering department. I obtained my Ph.D. in 2021 from Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Alexander Hauptmann. My lab is at capacity now. I will look for PhD. students from MPhils/Undergrads of the university. Please checkout our lab resources and this letter. 招生文: [知乎] [小红书]

Our research lab, the Precognition Lab (智能感知与预测实验室), is interested in building human-level Embodied AI systems that can effectively perceive, reason, and interact with the real-world for the good of humans. Here is an up-to-date research roadmap. Here are our on-going or finished research grants. Our lab's computing resources include 36 RTX 3090/4090/L40 GPUs and a cluster of 24 A6000 GPUs with a 100TB NAS. See this post. And we have multiple mobile platforms with robot arms and dex hands: If you want to meet, check out my public calendar first and propose a meeting via email.

• 04/2025 Serving as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025.
• 03/2025 获得“AI100 青年先锋”奖 by MIT Technology Review [麻省理工科技评论] [DeepTech] [小红书] [香港科技大学信息枢纽]
• 03/2025 Present a general Embodied AI introduction lecture for the university. 在校内举行了具身智能前沿应用讲座，给外行、非技术人员介绍具身智能的相关概念与前沿应用，反响不错 [宣传预告] [讲座录像] [讲座满意度]
• 02/2025 Two papers accepted at CVPR 2025. [Robot Manipulation] [3D Visual Grounding] [机器之心报道][知乎] [智猩猩直播]
• 01/2025 One paper accepted at ICRA 2025. [量子位报道] [Social Navigation] [知乎]
• 12/2024 梓帆、特立、佳明获得2024深圳智能机器人灵巧手大赛优胜奖 [深圳市人工智能与机器人研究院举办]
• 12/2024 迪聪获得广汽集团-港科大（广州）创新人才发展奖学金 (20万) [香港科技大学（广州）]
• 11/2024 Presented "Towards General Service Embodied AI" at ARTS 2024. [自主机器人技术研讨会]
• 11/2024 My first PhD student, Xiaoyu Zhu, has successfully defended her thesis and will graduate from CMU. Congrats to Xiaoyu! [Learning Generalizable Visual Representations Towards Novel Viewpoints, Scenes and Vocabularies]
• 10/2024 Presented "Towards General Service Embodied AI" at Huawei and CCF-YOCSEF seminar.
• 09/2024 Presented "Towards General Service Embodied AI" at CCF/CSIG GAMES Seminar. [第九届计算机图形学与混合现实研讨会]
• 09/2024 One paper accepted at CoRL 2024.
• 09/2024 One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024.
• 08/2024 One paper accepted at IROS 2024.
• 09/2024 被香港科技大学（广州）工会，评为笃志星（引领星）:D [学校新闻]
• 09/2024 Presented "Towards General Service Embodied AI" at CAA's Seminar. [CAA中国自动化学会云讲座]
• 08/2024 Presented "Towards General Service Embodied AI" at CAAI's Embodied AI Seminar. [CAAI中国人工智能学会具身智能青年学者研讨会第五期] [Video Recording]
• 07/2024 Presented "Towards General Service Embodied AI" at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. [WAIC] [联汇科技]
• 07/2024 Two papers accepted at ECCV 2024.
• 05/2024 1 paper accepted at NAACL 2024. 1 paper accepted at ACL 2024. Main conference.
• 04/2024 My PhD student Dicong Qiu is reported by the university media. [HKUST(GZ)] [INFO Hub] [AI Thrust]
• 02/2024 Serve as a panelist at the VALSE Embodied AI webinar. [VALSE] [bilibili]
• 02/2024 Co-organizing the The 6th workshop on Precognition: Seeing through the Future @CVPR 2024. [Call For Papers] [知乎] [小红书]
• 12/2023 Keynote speech at the CEII2023 Workshop [Schedule]
• 10/2023 Co-organizing the Open-world Visual Perception Workshop (“开放世界下的视觉感知和增强”主题论坛) @PRCV 2023 [Schedule]
• 09/2023 Hosting HKUST AI Seminar series. Many thanks to the incoming speakers from around the world! [Course Website]
• 08/2023 HKUST-GZ PhD Summer Camp has started! Welcome! [Project 1] [Project 2]
• 07/2023 Attended a series of talks and events. No more traveling till fall! [WAIC @Shanghai] [RUC Seminar @Beijing]
• 06/2023 The Precognition Workshop was successfully held at CVPR! Thanks to all the co-organizers and program committee members! [Workshop Site] [CVPR Workshop Recording]
• 02/2023 One paper accepted by CVPR 2023. Congrats to Xiaoyu!
• 02/2023 I'm teaching AIAA 5032 Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and AIAA 5036 Autonomous AI this semester at HKUST (Guangzhou).
• 01/2023 I am co-organizing the The 5th workshop on Precognition: Seeing through the Future @CVPR 2023. [Call For Papers] [知乎]
• 10/2022 Presented first-ever lecture at HKUST (Guangzhou). [AI Seminar]
• 10/2022 Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2022. [Multi-Action (Spotlight paper, 3.7% acceptance rate, 384/10411)] [Video Retrieval]
• 10/2022 Joined HKUST-GZ as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. Started an awesome list collection for TTAPs and PhD students.
• 09/2022 Invited to present at a young researcher forum by Prof. Xiaoou Tang and Shanghai AI Lab.
• 06/2022 Achieved second-place out of 150 teams on the public leaderboard of the Naturalist Driver Action Recognition Task - AI City Challenge @ CVPR 2022. [CVPRW Paper] [Presentation] [Code and Model]
• 10/2021 Published a research talk at TechBeat.net on Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction. [将门TechBeat] [B站]
• 08/2021 Received Doctoral Consortium Award at ICCV 2021, mentored by Prof. Alexandre Alahi.
• 08/2021 1 paper accepted by ICCV 2021.
• 08/2021 Our VERA system helps another major Washington Post news report. [link]
• 07/2021 Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis: From Recognition to Prediction: Analysis of Human Action and Trajectory Prediction in Video. [link]
• 04/2021 Featured in a front-page news report (04/15) by Washington Post using crowding counting technologies. [video] [知乎]
• 01/2021 Invited presentation at ICPR'20 pattern forecasting workshop. [link]
• 09/2020 We won the Automated Streams Analysis for Public Safety Challenge with a $30k prize.
• 08/2020 Our paper has been accepted by WACV 2021 (one strong-accept) and reported by CMU news:
• 08/2020 Analyzed videos for journalist from the Washington Post on a major news.
• 07/2020 Awarded "AI Rising Star" at the World AI Conference.
• 07/2020 SimAug paper accepted by ECCV 2020.
• 06/2020 Multiverse (CVPR 2020) code and dataset are released! [blog] [知乎] [code]
• 12/2019 Received Baidu Scholarship (10 recipients globally). Press Coverage: , , , ,
• 09/2019 Our Shooter Localization System won Best Demo award at CBMI2019. [Project Site]
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• 06/2019 Presented Future Prediction paper at CVPR 2019. It was reported by the media and it received 30k+ views in a week. [Tweets]
• 04/2019 Our CMU team's (INF & MUDSML) system achieved the best performance on the activity detection challenge (Cached) in surveillance videos hosted by NIST & IARPA. We have released our code and model for Object Detection & Tracking here.
• 12/2018 MemexQA paper accepted by TPAMI 2019.
• 06/2018 Presented MemexQA paper at CVPR 2018. [Spotlight Talk]
• 11/2016 Best performer in the NIST TRECVID 2016 Ad-hoc Video Search Challenge (no annotation track).

• “AI100 青年先锋”奖 by MIT Technology Review
  2025
• ICCV Doctoral Consortium Award
  2021
• Rising Star (云帆奖-明日之星), World AI Conference
  2020
• Baidu Scholarship (10 Ph.D. students worldwide)
  2019
• Winner, Automated Streams Analysis for Public Safety Challenge - $30k prize
  2020
• Best Demo Award at CBMI2019
  2019
• Yahoo! Fellowship
  2016 - 2018
• Winner, TRECVID ActEV Challenge
  2019
• Winner, TRECVID Ad-hoc Video Search Challenge, no annotation track
  2016
• CMU LTI Student Research Symposium Best Paper Honorable Mentions
  2018
• Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant - $6200
  2020

For more up-to-date media coverage, please visit my lab website.
• Washington Post. How Shireen Abu Akleh was killed (provided gunshot and shooter analysis), June 2022. [Link]
• Washington Post. Anatomy of a crackdown (provided gunshot and shooter analysis), August 25, 2021. [Link]
• Washington Post. 17 requests for backup in 78 minutes (provided crowd counting analysis), April 15, 2021. [Link]
• Carnegie Mellon University News. Amateur Drone Videos Could Aid in Natural Disaster Damage Assessment, August 28, 2020.
• AZO Robotics. New AI System Helps Detect Damage Caused to Buildings by Hurricanes, August 31, 2020.
• Washington Post. Lewd cheerleader videos, sexist rules: Ex-employees decry Washington’s NFL team workplace (featured in the video analytics), August 26, 2020. [Link]
• CBS. Researchers At Carnegie Mellon University Develop Video System To Locate Mass Shooters Using Smartphones, November 20, 2019.
• post-gazette. CMU develops video system that can locate mass shooter, November 20, 2019.
• GIZMODO. Smartphone Videos Can Now Be Analyzed and Used to Pinpoint the Location of a Shooter, November 21, 2019.
• DailyMail. Active shooters can be located within minutes by new software that analyzes smartphone video from the scene and can even identify the type of gun, November 20, 2019.
• Techspot. Researchers develop system that can pinpoint a shooter's location using smartphone videos, November 21, 2019.
• New York Times. Who Killed the Kiev Protesters? A 3-D Model Holds the Clues (featured in the video analytics), May 30, 2018.
• 读芯术. 卡内基梅隆大学梁俊卫：视频中行人的多种未来轨迹预测, August, 2020.
• Baidu. 乘风破浪的AI技术青年——首届WAIC云帆奖名单公布, July 11, 2020.
• China.com.cn. 人大高瓴人工智能学院“高屋建瓴-青年说”首期开讲, Jan 6, 2020.
• Baidu. AI界的中国力量！百度奖学金助力中国AI人才绽放光芒！, Jan 5, 2020.
• 量子位. 李飞飞团队造出”窥视未来”新AI:去哪干啥一起猜, 准确率压倒老前辈, received 30k+ views in a week, Feb 13, 2019.
• 机器之心. 遇见未来！李飞飞等提出端到端系统Next预测未来路径与活动, Feb 14, 2019.
• Aminer.cn, AI 2000 ranking (2019 - 2022).