About Me

• Ph.D. in Computer and Information Engineering, Inha University, South Korea, 2013

• Professor, Supervisor for Ph.D. and Master students

• National Patent Information Practice Expert, 2015

• Young Sci-Tech Talent of Chongqing, 2014

• Best Mentor, DeeCamp Global AI Training Camp, 2018

Prospective Student Recruitment for 2026
Plan to recruit 2 Ph.D. students and 6 Master students in Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence. 

The proposed research directions include:

• Computer Vision

• Big Data Analytics with Spark/Flink

• Multi-agent & Multimodal Large Models

Research Resources & Support

• Each graduate student will be provided with a high-performance GPU card (H800, A100, or V100) for research.

• Competitive stipends and research funding based on project participation.

• Abundant team-building activities.

Recent Achievements

1. Yining Feng, Kai Chen, Guohong Liang, Ziyang Wang, Hongyu Shi – First Place (Third Prize) in the First Full-Modal Pedestrian Re-ID Challenge, PRCV 2025

2. Xin Zeng, Lianyu Qin, Bingbing Pang – Second Prize, National Finals of the 7th Global Campus AI Algorithm Elite Competition (Smart Fulfillment Planning based on AI), 2025

3. Xin Zeng（25级研究生），OS Track of the Travel Planning Competition in IJCAI 2025，4th Place Award.

4. Xin Zeng（25级研究生），DSL Track of the Travel Planning Competition in IJCAI 2025，5th Place Award.

5. X. Zhang, S.L. Wu, S.J. Chen and Z.Y. Zhang*, Learning to Discern Fine-Grained Cues across Domains: Generalizing ReID via Multi-Level Feature Propagation, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications(TOMM), Mar. 2026（SCI二区，CCF-B）[Paper]

6. Z.Y. Zhang, N. Chen, Y.S. Liu, Q.H. Zhang and X. Zhang*, Adversarial Data Augmentation for Single Domain Generalization via Lyapunov Exponent-Guided Optimization, ICCV 2025（CCF-A）[Github][Paper]

7. X. Zhang, Z.G. Wu, Q.H. Zhang and Z.Y. Zhang*, Parallel branches-based second-order transformer for robust group re-identification with layout-guided occlusion mitigation, Expert Systems with Applications, Jun. 2025（SCI一区Top，CCF-C） [Github][Paper]

8. D. Dai, X. Zhang*, A Keypoint-Guided Feature Partition Network for Occluded Person Re-Identification, CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Oct. 2025（SCI一区Top, CAAI-B）[Paper]

9. 🏆 C.Q. Zuo, X. Zhang*, L. Yan and Z.Y. Zhang, GUGEN: Global User Graph Enhanced Network For Next POI Recommendation, IEEE TMC, Dec. 2024 (SCI一区Top, CCF-A）[Github][Paper]

10. 🏆 C.Q. Zuo, X. Zhang*, G. Zhao and L. Yan, PCR: A Parallel Convolution Residual Network For Traffic Flow Prediction, IEEE TETCI, Jan. 2025 (SCI二区）[Github][Paper]

11. 🔥&🏆 X. Zhang*, S.J. Wen, L. Yan, J.F. Feng and Y. Xia, A Hybrid-convolution Spatial-temporal Recurrent Network for Traffic Flow Prediction, The Computer Journal, Jan. 2024 (SCI四区，CCF-B） [Github][Paper]

Alumni

1. Current Students： 1 PhD. Candidates & 22 M.S. Candidates

2. Graduated Students: 43 graduated students (4 pursuing Ph.D. abroad, 2 pursuing Ph.D. domestically, and 37 employed)