Yuanhao Zhai

Yuanhao Zhai

PhD Student in Computer Vision

State University of New York at Buffalo

Biography

I am currently a third-year PhD student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I am advised by Prof. Junsong Yuan and Prof. David Doermann. Prior to this, I received my B.Eng in Computer Science from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2020. During my undergraduate study at XJTU, I was fortunate to be advised by Ziyi Liu and Prof. Le Wang at the Institue of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

The best way to reach me is through my email: yuanhaozhai [AT] gmail [DOT] com. My Chinese name is 翟元浩 (pronunciation).

Interests
  • Video Understanding/Synthesis
  • Human Action Analysis/Synthesis
  • Weakly-Supervised Learning
  • Media Forensics
Education
  • PhD in Computer Vision, 2021 - Present

    State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

  • B.Eng in Computer Science, 2016 - 2020

    Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

  • Exchange Student, 2019

    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

News

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Microsoft
Research Intern
Feb 2024 – Present Remote
 
 
 
 
 
Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University at Buffalo
Research Assistant
Aug 2021 – Present Buffalo, NY, USA
Research focuses on image manipulation detection and Deepfakes detection. Mentors: Prof. Junsong Yuan and Prof. David Doermann.
 
 
 
 
 
Microsoft
Research Intern
May 2023 – Aug 2023 Remote
Research focuses on human-centric dual-modal diffusion models. Mentors: Kevin Lin, Lindsey Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Jianfeng Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Zicheng Liu and Lijuan Wang.
 
 
 
 
 
Wormpex AI Research
Research Intern
May 2022 – Aug 2022 Bellevue, WA, USA
Research focuses on human action analysis and open-set recognition. Mentors: Ziyi Liu, Zhenyu Wu, Yi Wu, Chunluan Zhou and Gang Hua.
 
 
 
 
 
Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Research Intern
Feb 2018 – Jun 2021 Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Research focuses on action recognition, temporal action localization and weakly-supervised learning. Mentors: Ziyi Liu and Prof. Le Wang.