Yifan Zhang
Associate Professor
Beijing, China
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Top SchoolYifan Zhang is an Associate Professor at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a focus on computer vision, machine learning, and multimedia. He builds probabilistic models that combine prior knowledge and data to interpret human behavior and complex visual scenes, with recent work in activity and face recognition as well as video/image annotation. His background includes a postdoc at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and internships at I²R, and he has collaborated with industry research labs such as Microsoft Research Asia and Alibaba DAMO Academy. Based in Beijing, he blends academic rigor with practical research experience, often emphasizing structured probabilistic approaches that reveal latent semantics beyond standard deep-learning pipelines.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Southeast UniversityPh.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Github Skills (54)
representation-learning10
pytorch10
evaluation10
incremental-learning10
meta-learning10
machine-learning10
causality10
multimodal10
prompt10
generative10
information-theory10
deep-learning10
clip10
robustness10
generative-model10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yfzhang114/yfZhang114.github.io
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:155 pushes in 4 years 6 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
yfzhang114/Environment-Label-Smoothing
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 4 months
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