About me
Hi there, I am Yuchen Zhou (周昱臣)!
I am currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, supervised by Prof. Chao Gou and Prof. Guang Tan. I am also a student member of both IEEE and ACM. Previously, I was a research intern at ByteDance, mentored by Dr. Jiuqi Han and Dr. Ali Israr. I received honored B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2021, and was a short-term visiting student at Peking University.
📣 I am currently on the job market for Fall 2026 positions. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my research and want to discuss relevant research topic or potential collaborations! :)
🔍 Research Interests
My research aims to enable AI agents to understand the multi-modal world in a human-like manner, fostering the development of efficient and user-friendly human-machine interaction systems, such as autonomous driving and robotics. I draw inspiration from human cognitive processes, knowledge, and gaze pattern to guide AI models in performing downstream tasks. My recent interests include but are not limited to multi-modal understanding and multi-modal foundation models.
🌟 News
- Jun 2025 $~~$ One paper is accepted by ICCV 2025.
- Apr 2025 $~~$ One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
- Mar 2025 $~~$ One paper is accepted by ICME 2025.
- Mar 2025 $~~$ I give a talk about Cognitively-Inspired Interaction Understanding in CSIG Sharing Forum.
- Jan 2025 $~~$ I am supported by the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program-Doctoral Student Special Plan by CAST ( 首批中国科协青年人才托举工程-博士生专项).
- Dec 2024 $~~$ I receive the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students.
- Sep 2024 $~~$ I receive the Principal’s Special Scholarship of SYSU again this year. (Top 1)
- Sep 2024 $~~$ One paper is accepted by IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine.
- Jun 2024 $~~$ I attend CVPR 2024 in Seattle, US, and give a spotlight talk along with presenting a poster. We publicly release Interactive Gaze (IG), the first large-scale interaction-centric gaze fixation dataset.
- May 2024 $~~$ I attend VALSE 2024 in Chongqing, China, and present a poster.
- Mar 2024 $~~$ One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
- Mar 2024 $~~$ One paper is accepted by ICME 2024.
- Feb 2024 $~~$ One paper is accepted by CVPR 2024.
- Dec 2023 $~~$ Two papers are accepted by ICASSP 2024.
- Nov 2023 $~~$ We are the winner of ROAD-R challenge in Neurips 2023.
- Oct 2023 $~~$ One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement.
- Sep 2023 $~~$ I receive the Principal’s Special Scholarship of SYSU. (Top 1)
- Aug 2023 $~~$ One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
- Jul 2023 $~~$ One paper is accepted by ACMMM 2023.
- Jul 2023 $~~$ One Chinese invention patent is granted.
- Jul 2023 $~~$ One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- Dec 2022 $~~$ I end my internship at ByteDance, a wonderful journey.
- Nov 2022 $~~$ I receive the National Scholarship for Postgraduates.
- Sep 2022 $~~$ I add ByteDance as an algorithm researcher intern.
- Aug 2022 $~~$ I attend VALSE 2022 in Tianjin, China.
- Jun 2022 $~~$ I am the winner of HOMAGE Competition@ ActivityNet Challenge in CVPR 2022.
- Jun 2022 $~~$ One paper is accepted by IJCAI2022 Workshop.
- May 2022 $~~$ One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
- Dec 2021 $~~$ My undergraduate’s thesis is selected as an outstanding undergraduate thesis of Beijing.
- Oct 2021 $~~$ One paper is accepted by The Journal of Supercomputing.
- Aug 2021 $~~$ I win the national First prize (the Runner-up in military chess group) in University Computer Games Championship 2021.
- Jun 2021 $~~$ I graduate from USTB with bachelor’s degree and am selected as the outstanding graduate of Beijing.
- May 2021 $~~$ I win the national Second prize in RoboCup China Open 2021.
- Dec 2020 $~~$ I receive the National Scholarship for undergraduate students.
📫 Contact me
Email: zhouych37@mail2.sysu.edu.cn, zhouyuchen99@163.com
Wechat: zhouyuchen2017