Jian ZHAO 赵健

Leader of Evolutionary Vision+x Oriented Learning (EVOL) Lab & Principal Research Scientist @ TeleAI of China Telecom (中国电信人工智能研究院)
Researcher & Ph.D. Supervisor @ School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics (iOPEN) ｜ Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi'an Shanxi, P.R. China
Office: 11 Dongzhimen South Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China 100027
Phone: (86) 15313525501
Email: zhaoj90 (at) chinatelecom (dot) cn OR jian_zhao (at) nwpu (dot) edu (dot) cn OR zhaojian90 (at) u (dot) nus (dot) edu
Prospective Students : Contact me.


Research Interests

  • AI Governance: Intrinsic Security, Derivative Security, Ethical Security, etc.

More details can be found here.

News

  • [ PAPER ]
    08 Nov 2025, Two papes are accepted to AAAI 2026, congrats to Wei Cai, Yuhu Shang, Ziyan Shi, Yusheng Zhao, Yuchen Yuan, and Tianle Zhang!
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    08 Nov 2025, Will give a talk "AI Safety and Governance" on the 3rd Capital Market Innovation Development Forum — Sub-Forum on Listed Companies' Innovation Development and New-Quality Productivity Enhancement.
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    25 Oct 2025, Will co-organize the AI for Future Industrial Development and Innovation Workshop with the 27th Youth Annual Conference of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.
  • [ AWARD ]
    17 Oct 2025, Achieved the Grand Prize in the "Challenge Cup" National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works by Race, congrats to Yujia Liu, Jingqian Zhang, Yue Shi, Shuo Zhang, Linjin Wang, and Boyun Shi!
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    17 Oct 2025, Will give a talk "AI Safety and Governance" on the ML-Summit 2025.
  • [ AWARD ]
    16 Oct 2025, Achieved the CCF Outstanding Paper Award & the Best Student Paper Award in PRCV 2025, congrats to Tianbao Zhang, Yuer Li, Zheng Zhu, Ping Hu, and Zhaoxin Fan!
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    01 Oct 2025, Will serve as the guest editor for Pattern Recognition special issue on Spatial Embodied Intelligence of Unmanned Systems in Open Urban Environments.
  • [ AWARD ]
    23 Sep 2025, Achieved the 1st-Place Awards in Track 4: Cross-Modal Drone Navigation of the RoboSense Challenge with IROS 2025, congrats to Linfeng Li, Zepeng Yang, Tianle Zhang, and Yuchen Yuan!
  • [ AWARD ]
    20 Sep 2025, been named to the "World Top 2% Scientists List" (Single-Year Impact, 2025/2024/2023).
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    19 Sep 2025, Will give a talk "AI Safety and Governance" on the Young Elite Scientist Workshop of the CSIG Young Scientist Conference 2025.
  • [ PAPER ]
    23 Aug 2025, Three papes are accepted to PRCV 2025, congrats to Tianbao Zhang, Junjie Cao, and Binquan Tan!
  • [ PAPER ]
    24 Jul 2025, One pape is accepted to CVIU, congrats to Fan Zhang!
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    25 Jun 2025, Will serve as the guest editor for Mathematics special issue on Mathematical Foundations and Approaches to AI Governance in Computer Vision.
  • [ PAPER ]
    11 Jul 2025, One pape is accepted to ECAI 2025, congrats to Shilong Wang!
  • [ PAPER ]
    05 Jul 2025, Two papers (one demo track) are accepted to ACM MM 2025, congrats to Runqi Wang, and Wei Cai!
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    28 Jun 2025, Will give a talk "Anti-UAV: Intelligent Sensing of Low, Slow, and Small Targets in Complex Scenarios" on the 1st CSIG Workshop on Frontier Technologies and Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
  • [ PAPER ]
    09 Jun 2025, One paper is accepted to PR, congrats to Jiazheng Xing, and Chao Xu!
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    07 Jun 2025, Will co-organize the Multimodal Cognitive Computing Workshop with VALSE 2025.
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    07 Jun 2025, Will give a talk "Anti-UAV: Intelligent Sensing of Low, Slow, and Small Targets in Complex Scenarios" on the Low-altitude Intelligent Sensing and Understanding Workshop with VALSE 2025.
  • [ PAPER ]
    03 Jun 2025, One paper is accepted to PR, congrats to Xiaoguang Tu!
  • [ PAPER ]
    28 May 2025, One paper is accepted to PR, congrats to Chao Xu!
  • [ AWARD ]
    22 May 2025, Achieved the 1st-Place Awards in Track 1: Image Detection and Localization & Track 2: Audio-Visual Detection and Localization of the Workshop on Deepfake Detection, Localization, and Interpretability with IJCAI 2025, congrats to Jiaming Chu, Yuchu Jiang, Xin Zhang, Yuer Li, Xinru Wang, and Mingxing Yuan!
  • [ PAPER ]
    27 Feb 2025, Four papers are accepted to CVPR 2025, congrats to Likai Tian, Shuo Wang, Tao Wang, and Yifan Wang!
  • [ PAPER ]
    25 Feb 2025, One paper is accepted to Neurocomputing, congrats to Yuhan Kang!
  • [ PAPER ]
    08 Feb 2025, One paper is accepted to IJCV, congrats to Chao Xu!
  • [ PAPER ]
    07 Jan 2025, One paper is accepted to Sensors, congrats to Pengju Li!

Selected Honors & Awards

Academic Services & Activities

Academic Services

Co-Ph.D. Supervisor
  • Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, Fudan University
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China
  • School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University
  • Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Deputy Director
  • Enterprise Liaison and Standardization Working Committee, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG)
Member of the Board of Directors
  • Beijing Society of Image and Graphics (BSIG)
Editorial Board Member
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Electronics and Signal Processing [Certificate]
  • Artificial Intelligence Advances [Certificate]
  • IET Computer Vision [Certificate]
    • Beijing Industrial Science & Technology Liaison Officer
  • Beijing Association for Science and Technology [Certificate]
    • Guest Editor
  • Pattern Recognition special issue on Spatial Embodied Intelligence of Unmanned Systems in Open Urban Environments [WeChat News1 News2 News3 News4 News5]
  • Mathematics special issue on Mathematical Foundations and Approaches to AI Governance in Computer Vision [WeChat News] [Certificate]
  • Pattern Recognition Letters special issue on Recent Advances in Deep Learning Model Security [WeChat News1 News2 News3]
  • Electronics special issue on Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval: Trends and Challenges
    • Senior Area Chair
  • Vision and Learning Seminar (VALSE)
    • Session Chair
  • ACM MM 2021
  • ECCV 2020 China Pre-Conference
    • Area Chair
  • The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CICAI) 2022-2023
    • Presentation Chair
  • The 2nd China Embodied AI Conference (CEAI) 2025 [Certificate]
  • The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CICAI) 2021
    • Workshop Chair
  • VALSE 2025
  • The Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition (CCBR) 2024 [Official Notification]
    • Senior PC Member
  • The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2025 [Certificate]
    • Member of Expert Arbitration
  • The China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition - Industrial Agent Track [2025]
  • The "Challenge Cup" National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works by Race [2023] [2024]
  • The China Artificial Intelligence Competition (Invitation)
  • Science and Technology Talent Award, China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) [2024-2029]
  • Science and Technology Award, Chinese Institute of Electronic (CIE)
  • Science and Technology Award, China Telecom
    • Senior Member
  • China Computer Federation (CCF)
  • Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
  • China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG)
    • Technical Consultant
  • Synced [2022-Now]
  • Baidu Institute of AI [2020-2022]
  • OPPO Institute [2021-2022]
  • PENSEES [2020-2021]
    • Executive Committee Member
  • Technical Committee on Computer Vision, China Computer Federation (CCF-CV) [2024-2028]
    • Committee Member
  • Beijing Artificial Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee [Official News]
  • Technical Committee on Embodied AI, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI-EAI)
  • Technical Committee on Big Visual Data, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG-BVD)
  • Technical Committee on Multimedia Division, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG-MM)
  • Committee for Elite Young Professionals, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG)
  • Committee for Elite Young Professionals, Beijing Society of Image and Graphics (BSIG)
    • Developer Expert
  • PaddlePaddle, Baidu
    • Member
  • IEEE, CCF, CAAI, CSIG, CSIG-BVD, CSIG-MM, BSIG

    • Invited Reviewer

    Journal

  • T-PAMI, IJCV, T-MM, T-IFS, T-CSVT, Neurocomputing, T-ITS, T-CDS, T-AFFC, T-HMS, KNOSYS, IET Computer Vision, CSSP, JVCI, GVC, IMAVIS, ESWA, INFFUS, CVIU

    Conference

  • NeurIPS (one of the top 30% highest-scoring reviewers of NeurIPS 2018), CVPR, ICCV, ACM MM, AAAI, ICLR, ICML, ICME, ACCV, UAI, FG, CICAI, ICASSP
    • Chair
  • The 4th Anti-UAV Workshop & Challenge with CVPR 2025 [VINT News]
  • The Evolutionary Vision+X Oriented Learning Workshop with CCDM 2024 [Official News] [Certificate]
  • The 1st SkatingVerse Workshop & Challenge with FG 2024 [BSIG News] [Synced News]
  • The 3rd Anti-UAV Workshop & Challenge with CVPR 2023 [Poster] [WeChat News1 News2] [ModelScope News] [CSDN News]
  • The 2nd Anti-UAV Workshop & Challenge with ICCV 2021
  • The "Knowledge and Semantic Hybrid Driven Visual Understanding" Workshop with VALSE 2021
  • The 1st Anti-UAV Workshop & Challenge with CVPR 2020
  • The Challenge on Unconstrained Face Recognition, Suspicious Object Recognition, and Special Behavior Recognition
    • Co-Chair
  • The AI for Future Industrial Development and Innovation Workshop with the 27th Youth Annual Conference of the Chinese Institute of Electronics
  • The Multimodal Cognitive Computing Workshop with VALSE 2025
  • The Resource-Limited Infrared Small Target Detection (LimitIRSTD) Challenge with ICPR 2024 [BSIG News]
  • The Multimodal Large Model Workshop with CCBR 2024
  • The Wide Infrared Small Target Detection (WideIRSTD) Challenge with PRCV 2024 [BSIG News]
  • The LLM & AGI Workshop with CAIIAC 2024 [Official Summary]
  • The Visual Target Perception: Present and Future Workshop with CAIIAM 2023
  • The Explainable Deep Learning Algorithms and Vision Applications Workshop with VALSE 2022
  • The Knowledge and Semantics Driven Visual Understanding Workshop with VALSE 2021
  • The RLQ-TOD Workshop and Challenge with ECCV 2020
  • The L.I.P Workshop and MHP Challenge with CVPR 2018

    Academic Activities

    • I was invited by the 3rd Capital Market Innovation Development Forum — Sub-Forum on Listed Companies' Innovation Development and New-Quality Productivity Enhancement to deliver a talk "AI Safety and Governance" on 08th November 2025.
    • I was invited by the Young Elite Scientist Workshop of the CSIG Young Scientist Conference to deliver a talk "AI Safety and Governance" on 19th September 2025.
    • I was invited by the 1st CSIG Workshop on Frontier Technologies and Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence to deliver a talk "Anti-UAV: Intelligent Sensing of Low, Slow, and Small Targets in Complex Scenarios" on 28th June 2025.
    • I was invited by the Low-altitude Intelligent Sensing and Understanding Workshop with VALSE 2025 to deliver a talk "Anti-UAV: Intelligent Sensing of Low, Slow, and Small Targets in Complex Scenarios" on 07th June 2025.
    • I was invited by the Shui-Mu AI Workshop 2025 to deliver a talk "AI Safety and Governance" at Tsinghua University on 17th May 2025.
    • Testing report on safety and security of DeepSeek-V3/R1 and OpenAI o1 [CSIG News] [BSIG News]
    • Understanding and thinking about DeepSeek, interviewed by CSIG on 08th Feb 2025.
    • I was invited by the Intelligent Digital Human Workshop with CCBR 2024 to deliver a talk "Unconstrained Perception and Understanding: From Visual Vertical Domain Modeling to Multimodal Unification and Multi-Task Collaboration" on 24th Nov 2024.
    • I was invited by the Tutorial on the Application of AIGC in Biometric Identification and Security with PRCV 2024 to deliver a talk "Unconstrained Perception and Understanding: From Visual Vertical Domain Modeling to Multimodal Unification and Multi-Task Collaboration" on 18th Oct 2024.
    • We released our recent achievements on AI for Tour (TeleTrip) on 23rd Sep 2024. [CSIG News] [BSIG News] [Synced News] [Jiangmen News] [Sichuan Observation News] [People's Daily News]
    • Tsinghua Jittor officially merged Anti-UAV to better facilitate more cutting-edge researches and applications on small object detection and tracking in complex scenes. [BSIG News]
    • I was invited by the 2024 Ningxia Youth Expert Academic Exchange Conference on Artificial Intelligence to deliver a talk "Unconstrained Perception and Understanding: From Visual Vertical Domain Modeling to Multimodal Unification and Multi-Task Collaboration" on 07th Sep 2024.
    • I was invited by the Workshop of Red Teaming Multi-Modal Large Language Model Security Challenge with CCDM 2024 to deliver a talk "Unconstrained Perception and Understanding: From Visual Vertical Domain Modeling to Multimodal Unification and Multi-Task Collaboration" on 29th Jul 2024.
    • Officially interviewed by Committee for Elite Young Professionals, CSIG on 22 Jul 2024.
    • I was invited by the AI Art & Design Workshop with ChinaMM 2024 to deliver a talk "AI4Beauty: Innovation and Empowerment in the Era of LLMs" on 26th Jul 2024.
    • I was invited by the 7th CSIG Outstanding PhD Forum to deliver a talk "Unconstrained Perception and Understanding: From Visual Vertical Domain Modeling to Multimodal Unification and Multi-Task Collaboration" on 18th Jul 2024.
    • I delivered a talk "Multi-Modal AI Agent" on the TeleAI & EE of Tsinghua Meet-Up on 08th Jul 2024.
    • I was invited by BAAI Conference 2024 to deliver a talk "Unconstrained Perception and Understanding: From Visual Vertical Domain Modeling to Multimodal Unification and Multi-Task Collaboration" on 15th Jun 2024.
    • Officially interviewed by CSIG on 02 Apr 2024.
    • I was invited by Ningxia "Data from the East Computed by the West" Young Scientist Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Breakthroughs to deliver a talk "Towards Unconstrained Intelligent Perception and Deep Understanding on Images/Videos" on 28th Oct 2023.
    • I was invited by CAAI to deliver a talk "Towards Unconstrained Human-centric Intelligent Perception and Deep Understanding" on 29th Oct 2022.
    • I was invited by BSIG to deliver a talk "Towards Unconstrained Human-centric Intelligent Perception and Deep Understanding" on 9th Sep 2022.
    • I was invited by Tsinghua AIR Webinar to deliver a talk "Towards Unconstrained Image/Video Deep Understanding" on 19th Jul 2022.
    • I was invited by CSIG Webinar to deliver a talk "Towards Unconstrained Image/Video Deep Understanding" on 28th Jun 2022.
    • Officially interviewed by CSIG on 24 May 2022.
    • Officially interviewed by Beijing Association for Science and Technology, due to a series of contributions on "Unconstrained Image/Video Deep Understanding". [BAST Official Interview1 Interview2 Interview3]
    • Baidu PaddlePaddle officially merged face.evoLVe to better facilitate more cutting-edge researches and applications on facial analytics and human-centric multi-media understanding.
    • I have co-organized a VALSE Tutorial with Assoc. Prof. Xingxing Wei on the topic of "Deep Synthesis and Identification in Adversarial Environments" on 8th Sep 2021.
    • I have co-organized a VALSE Webinar with Dr. Wenguan Wang and Prof. Zheng Wang on the topic of "Human-Centric Vision Techniques" on 13th Jan 2021.
    • I was invited by Qihoo 360 to attend the "2020 Shanghai Digital Innovation Conference" on 5th Dec 2020 as a panel guest of "Opportunities and Challenges Brought by Artificial Intelligence to Cyberspace" session.
    • I have co-organized a VALSE Webinar with Prof. Chang Xu on the topic of "Visual Generation and Synthesis" on 23th Sep 2020.
    • I was invited by Jiang Men to attend the "将门ECCV 2020鲜声夺人云际会" on 30th Aug 2020 as a panel guest of "奔涌吧后浪：从PhD到助理教授身份转变" session.
    • I was invited by Prof. Jimin Xiao at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Xi'an China to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing" on 31st Jul 2020.
    • I have co-organized a VALSE Webinar with Prof. Shiguang Shan on the topic of "Face-based Human Understanding: beyond Face Recognition" on 25th Mar 2020.
    • I was invited by Prof. Congyan Lang at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing China to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing" on 24th Oct 2019.
    • I was invited by Dr. Jingtuo Liu at Baidu, Beijing China to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing" on 5th Sep 2019.
    • I was invited by Prof. Ran He at Center for Research on Intelligent Perception and Computing, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing" on 29th Aug 2019.
    • I was invited by Huawei Noah's Ark Lab to deliver a talk "Understanding Humans in Visual Scenes" on 13th Jun 2019.
    • I was invited by Peng Cheng Laboratory (PCL) to attend the 2019 Overseas Young Scientist Workshop at Shenzhen China during 30th Mar 2019 to 1st Apr 2019 and deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing".
    • I delivered a spotlight talk "Understanding Humans in Crowded Scenes: Deep Nested Adversarial Learning and A New Benchmark for Multi-Human Parsing" on VALSE 2019.
    • I was invited by CoLab, School of Computer, Beihang University to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing" on 23rd Mar 2019.
    • I was invited by Tencent Deep Sea AI Lab to deliver a talk "Margin-based Representation Learning, Residual Knowledge Distillation and Prior-Aided Super Resolution" on 1st Mar 2019.
    • I was invited by UBTECH to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Understanding" on 8th Jan 2019.
    • I was invited by OmniVision to deliver a talk "Facial Analytics" on 16th Nov 2018.
    • I was invited by Jiang Men to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Understanding" on 30th Aug 2018. [Poster] [Summary]
    • I was invited by VALSE Webinar to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Understanding" on 22nd Aug 2018. [Summary]
    • I represented the Learning & Vision (LV) Group of NUS to "Launch of NUS new Vision, Mission and Values" at University Culture Center on 15th Aug 2018, and presented the recent achievements on Facial Analytics to NUS President Prof. Tan Eng Chye. [NUS Instagram] [NUS News] [Gallery]

    • Modified: 08 Nov 2025