Zhenghao Chen
Faculty Member at University of Newcastle
Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolZhenghao Chen is a Lecturer and research-active faculty member at the University of Newcastle specializing in visual generative AI, with 11 years of experience bridging cutting-edge research and industrial deployment. He holds a PhD from the University of Sydney and has driven multimodal foundation-model and agentic AI projects at Microsoft, TikTok and Disney that produced patents and production-grade systems used globally. His publication record spans CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, ECCV and top journals (T-PAMI, T-MI), and he has received major recognitions including the Google Australia Prize and ACM SIGMM Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. Beyond core research, he co-leads AI-for-Science initiatives applying generative models to digital health and atmospheric science, and has translated lab innovations into real-world content-moderation and multimedia-compression products. Not obvious from titles alone, he repeatedly pairs theory with systems engineering—e.g., developing Video-LLM methods and deployed "GenShield" pipelines—making his work both academically influential and operationally impactful.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (19)
efficientnet7
resnet6
re-identification6
pytorch4
deep-learning4
object-detection4
python3
tensorflow3
computer-vision3
faster-rcnn3
machine-learning3
transfer-learning2
jekyll2
mask-rcnn2
lossless-image-compression1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chriszhenghaochen/DNN-Study-and-Application
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
chriszhenghaochen/ST_Loss
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:55 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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