Recent Talks

• [2025/5] Keynote talk at CVPR Workshop Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents 2025: Vision and Language Models for Decision-Making
• [2025/3] Invited talk at AAAI 2025: How Vision and Language Models Are Changing Decision-Making
• [2023/12] Invited Talk at NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Diffusion Models
• [2023/8] Invited Talk at Google
• [2023/8] Diffusion Models Course at SIGGRAPH
• [2023/5] Invited Talk at UC Berkeley
• [2023/4] Invited Talk at Nanyang Technological University
• [2023/2] Invited Talk at Columbia
• [2023/2] Invited Talk at UIUC
• [2023/2] Invited Talk at UT Austin
• [2022/12] Invited Talk at UC San Diego
• [2022/11] Invited Talk at Cornell Tech
• [2022/11] Invited Talk at UC Berkeley
• [2022/11] Invited Talk at Stanford
• [2022/11] Invited Talk at Northeastern

Datasets and Environments

• VirtualHome multi-agent embodied environment for household activities
• V-HICO dataset for video-based human-object interaction detection
• CUHK-SYSU dataset for person re-identification
• CUHK-PEDES dataset for natural language based person re-identification

Selected Publications [Full List] ( show by date / show by topic)
Research Topics: Generative Modeling / Robot Learning

Selected Honors

• CIFAR AI Chair, 2024 [Link]
• EECS Rising Stars, 2022 [Link]
• ICML Outstanding Reviewer, 2022 [Link]
• Qualcomm Fellowship Finalist, 2022 [Link]
• Facebook Research Fellowship, 2021 [Link]
• Adobe Research Fellowship, 2019 [Link]
• MIT Seneff-Zue CS Fellowship, 2018
• Outstanding Students Award, CUHK, 2018

Workshops / Tutorials Organizer

• Visual Generative Modeling: What’s After Diffusion? at CVPR 2025
• Continual Robot Learning from Humans at RSS 2025
• Knowledge in Generative Models at ECCV 2024
• Diffusion Models Course at SIGGRAPH 2023
• Social Intelligence in Humans and Robots at ICRA 2021, RSS 2022, RSS 2023
• MIT Visual Computing Workshop 2021
  
• Wider Face and Person Challenge at ICCV 2019