Academic Service
Workshop Chair/Founder
CVPR 2026 2nd Workshop on Computer Vision for Children and Pediatrics (CV4CHL)
ICLR 2025 1st Workshop on AI for Children and Pediatrics (AI4CHL)
WACV 2024 1st Workshop on Large Language and Vision Models for Autonomous Driving (LLVM-AD)
Conference Organizer
Research Roundtable Chair - Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H) 2024
Workshop Co-organizer
ICCV 2025 Workshop on Distillation of Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving (WDFM-AD)
CVPR 2025 Workshop on Distillation of Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving (WDFM-AD)
WACV 2025 3rd Workshop on Large Language and Vision Models for Autonomous Driving (LLVM-AD)
ITSC 2024 2nd Workshop on Large Language and Vision Models for Autonomous Driving (LLVM-AD)
Conference Area Chair
Workshop Area Chair
CVPR 2026 2nd Workshop on Multi-Modal Reasoning for Agentic Intelligence (MMRAgI)
ICLR 2026 The First Workshop on Efficient Spatial Reasoning
Conference Reviewer
AI Conferences: AAAI (Main Track, Social Impact Track, IAAI), IJCAI
CV Conferences: ACCV, BMVC, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV
Healthcare Conferences: CHIL, ISBI, MICCAI
ML Conferences: ECML-PKDD, ICASSP, ICML, ICPR, IJCNN, NeurIPS (Main Track, D&B Track)
Journal Reviewer
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI)
IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
Nature Scientific Data
Frontiers in Psychiatry
JMIR Cancer
Invited Talk
Gaze Target Estimation Anywhere with Concepts (NVIDIA CVPR Booth Spotlight Talk, 06/05/2026)
Gaze Target Estimation Anywhere with Concepts (CVPR 2026 GAZE Workshop, 06/04/2026)
Chair Talk: Decoding Children’s Gait Behavior from Video (CVPR 2026 CV4CHL Workshop, 06/04/2026)
Toward Social AI Agent: From Social Perception to Theory of Mind (MSRA, 01/08/2026)
Toward Social AI Agent: From Social Perception to Theory of Mind (HFUT, 01/06/2026)
Toward Human Deictic Gesture Target Estimation (NVIDIA, 11/22/2025)
Students/Mentees in UIUC
Jiakai Chen (2026-, UIUC MCS)
Chen Fang (2026-, UIUC BS)
Fuyu Qiu (2025-, UIUC BS)
Boyi Li (2025-, ZJU/UIUC BS)
Pranav Virupaksha (2024-, UIUC BS -> Gatech MSCS)
Research Community Service
Microlearning Series of Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
Author Mentorship of Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H)
Fellowship & Awards & Achievements
CHIL 2026 Best Paper Award (1 in 140 Submissions)
2025-2026 CIFAR PhD Fellowship
AAAI 2023 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Award
Silver Medal of 24th China National Biology Olympiad (第二十四届中国生物学奥林匹克银牌)