Wei Zhai

Wei Zhai (翟伟)

Associate Researcher
Department of Automation
University of Science and Technology of China
Email: wzhai056@ustc.edu.cn
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I am an Associate Researcher in the Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). I received my Ph.D. from USTC in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Zheng-Jun Zha and Prof. Yang Cao, and my B.S. degree from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2017. My research focuses on Embodied Perception and Interaction, Multimodal Reasoning and Generation, and Neuromorphic Vision. I was fortunate to receive the AAAI 2023 Distinguished Paper Award and the ACM MM 2025 MSMA Workshop Best Student Paper Award.

News

03/2026
1 papers accepted by T-PAMI.
02/2026
7 papers accepted by CVPR 2026. 1 Highlight
01/2026
3 papers accepted by ICLR 2026.
11/2025
1 paper accepted by AAAI 2025.
10/2025
1 paper accepted by T-NNLS.
09/2025
3 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025. 1 Spotlight
09/2025
1 paper accepted by ACM MM MSMA Workshop. Best Student Paper
06/2025
4 papers accepted by ICCV 2025.
06/2025
Won the 1st Place in Efficient Event-based Eye-Tracking Challenge.
06/2025
Won the 1st Place in Body Contact Estimation Challenge (RHOBIN2025 CVPR).
05/2025
1 paper accepted by SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences.
02/2025
5 papers accepted by CVPR 2025. 1 Oral
09/2024
1 paper accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
07/2024
1 paper accepted by ACM MM 2024.
07/2024
1 paper accepted by T-IP.
07/2024
1 paper accepted by ECCV 2024.
06/2024
Won the 2nd Place in 3D Contact Estimation Challenge (RHOBIN2024 CVPR).
04/2024
1 paper accepted by Optics Express.
04/2024
1 paper accepted by T-AI.
03/2024
Won the 2nd Place in Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge (NTIRE2024 CVPR).
03/2024
Won the 1st Place in Event-based Eye Tracking Task (AIS2024 CVPR).
02/2024
1 paper accepted by CVPR 2024.
12/2023
1 paper accepted by AAAI 2024.
11/2023
1 paper accepted by IJCV.
10/2023
1 paper accepted by T-PAMI.
09/2023
1 paper accepted by IJCV.
07/2023
1 paper accepted by T-NNLS.
07/2023
2 papers accepted by ICCV 2023.
03/2023
2 papers accepted by CVPR 2023.
01/2023
1 paper accepted by AAAI 2023. Distinguished Paper
09/2022
1 paper accepted by NeurIPS 2022.

Publications

Experience

Jul 2024 - Present
University of Science and Technology of China
Associate Researcher
Department of Automation
Jul 2022 - Jun 2024
University of Science and Technology of China
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Automation
Advisor: Prof. Zheng-Jun Zha and Prof. Yang Cao
Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
University of Science and Technology of China
Ph.D. in Cyberspace Security
School of Cyberspace Security
Advisor: Prof. Zheng-Jun Zha and Prof. Yang Cao
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
JD Explore Academy
Research Intern
Mentor: Prof. Dacheng Tao and Dr. Jing Zhang
Sep 2013 - Jun 2017
Southwest Jiaotong University
B.S. in Computer Science
Outstanding Graduate of Southwest Jiaotong University (2017)

Professional Activities

Conference Reviewer
  • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • ACM Multimedia (ACM MM)
  • International Joint Conferences on AI (IJCAI)
Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)
  • International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (T-NNLS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM)
  • IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT)
  • Pattern Recognition (PR)
  • ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Comm., and Appl. (ToMM)

Awards and Honors

2025
ACM MM MSMA Workshop Best Student Paper Best Paper
2025
1st Place, Body Contact Estimation Challenge (RHOBIN2025 CVPR Workshop) Champion
2025
1st Place, Efficient Event-based Eye-Tracking Challenge (CVPR Workshop) Champion
2024
1st Place, Event-based Eye Tracking Task (AIS2024 CVPR Workshop) Champion
2024
2nd Place, 3D Contact Estimation Challenge (RHOBIN2024 CVPR Workshop) Runner-up
2024
2nd Place, NTIRE 2024 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Runner-up
2023
AAAI Distinguished Paper Award Distinguished
2021
Outstanding Internship at JD Explore Academy
2019
National Scholarship (University of Science and Technology of China)
2017
Outstanding Graduate of Southwest Jiaotong University
2016
National Scholarship (Southwest Jiaotong University)

Teaching

Autumn 2024
Computer Vision, USTC
Autumn 2025
Computer Vision, USTC
Spring 2026
Deep Learning, USTC

Teaching Assistants

Autumn 2020
Computer Vision, USTC
Autumn 2019
Image Processing, USTC