🙋‍♂️ About Me

I am currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence, Zhengzhou University (郑州大学), under the supervision of Prof. Mingliang Xu (徐明亮) and Prof. Shupan Li (李书攀).

I am also privileged to receive remote academic guidance from Prof. Muhammad Haris Khan at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and Prof. Hao Dong (董浩) at the ELLIS Institute Finland and Tampere University.

My research interests primarily focus on Domain Generalization and Multimodal Learning.

I am always open to potential research collaborations and discussions, feel free to get in touch via email.

📧 Email: lihongzhao@gs.zzu.edu.cn

🔥 News

  • 2026.11:  🚀 One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) (IF 20.4, CCF-A).
  • 2026.10:  ✨ Selected for the 2026 CAST Young Science and Technology Talent Cultivation Program (Doctoral Student Special Plan), China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).
  • 2026.09:  🎉 One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2026 (CCF-A).
  • 2026.09:  🏆 I am honored to receive the National Scholarship 2026!
  • 2026.07:  🚀 One paper is accepted by International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) (5-year IF 20.0, CCF-A).
  • 2026.07:  🎉 One paper is accepted by ACM MM 2026 (CCF-A).
  • 2026.04:  🌟 One paper is accepted by CVPR 2026 (CCF-A) and selected as Highlight!
  • 2026.03:  🎊 Invited to serve as Area Chair for ICIC 2026 (CCF-C).
  • 2025.12:  🤝 Honored to host Prof. Chi Liu (刘驰) (BIT) during his visit to Zhengzhou. Deeply grateful for his generous academic guidance.
  • 2025.12:  🤝 Honored to host Prof. Weinan Zhang (张伟楠) (SJTU) during his visit to Zhengzhou. Deeply grateful for his inspiring academic guidance.
  • 2025.10:  🎉 One paper is accepted by AAAI 2026 (CCF-A) as an Oral presentation.
  • 2025.10:  ✨ Grant: Awarded as Principal Investigator for the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Provincial (Youth Student Project).
  • 2025.07:  🎉 One paper is accepted by ACM MM 2025 (CCF-A) as an Oral presentation.
  • 2025.05:  🚀 One paper is accepted by Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA) (IF 9.4).
  • 2025.03:  🚀 One paper is accepted by Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) (IF 8.0).
  • 2024.03:  🎉 One paper is accepted by ICME 2024 (CCF-B).

📝 Selected Publications

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2026.10 Selected for the CAST Young Science and Technology Talent Cultivation Program (Doctoral Student Special Plan), China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).
  • 2026.09 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China.
  • 2026.09 First-class Ph.D. Scholarship, Zhengzhou University.
  • 2025.10 Principal Investigator, the Natural Science Foundation of Henan Provincial (Youth Student Project).
  • 2025.09 First-class Ph.D. Scholarship, Zhengzhou University.
  • 2024.09 First-class Ph.D. Scholarship, Zhengzhou University.

📖 Educations

  • 2024.09 - Present: Zhengzhou University, Ph.D. in Software Engineering.
  • 2021.09 - 2024.06: Northwest University, M.S. in Computer Science and Technology.
  • 2017.09 - 2021.06: Henan University, B.E. in Software Engineering.

🏛️ Academic Services

  • Area Chair:
    • International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2026)
  • Conference Reviewer:
    • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
    • International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
    • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    • International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
  • Journal Reviewer:
    • International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
    • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
    • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)
    • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS)
    • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)
    • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
    • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)
    • Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS)
    • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIIM)
    • Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (BSPC)
    • Informatics in Medicine Unlocked (IMU)
    • Array
  • Conference Service: