Academic Service
I founded the AI4CHL / CV4CHL workshop series to bring pediatrics into the mainstream ML conversation.
Workshops & conference organization
I also built the LLVM-AD community on multimodal LLMs for autonomous driving from the ground up — rallying my collaborators in Tencent to produce the first survey of the field — and students I mentored in this community have gone on to research scientist positions at Waymo, Bosch Research, and other institutions.
Founder & Chair
- General ChairCVPR 2026 — 2nd Workshop on Computer Vision for Children and Pediatrics (CV4CHL)
- General ChairICLR 2025 — 1st Workshop on AI for Children and Pediatrics (AI4CHL)
- FounderWACV 2024 — 1st Workshop on Large Language and Vision Models for Autonomous Driving (LLVM-AD)
- Research Roundtable ChairMachine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H) 2024
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 LLVM-AD
- ITSC 2024 — 2nd Workshop on LLVM-AD
Area Chair
Invited talks
- Jun 2026Video-based Disease Progression Simulation — CHIL 2026 Best Paper Talk
- Jun 2026Gaze Target Estimation Anywhere with Concepts — NVIDIA CVPR Booth Spotlight Talk
- Jun 2026Gaze Target Estimation Anywhere with Concepts — CVPR 2026 GAZE Workshop
- Jun 2026Chair Talk: Decoding Children's Gait Behavior from Video — CVPR 2026 CV4CHL Workshop
- Jan 2026Toward Social AI Agent: From Social Perception to Theory of Mind — Microsoft Research Asia
- Jan 2026Toward Social AI Agent: From Social Perception to Theory of Mind — Hefei University of Technology
- Nov 2025Toward Human Deictic Gesture Target Estimation — NVIDIA
Reviewing
Conferences
AAAI · IJCAI
CVPR · ICCV · ECCV · ACCV · BMVC
NeurIPS · ICML · ICASSP · ICPR · IJCNN · ECML-PKDD
CHIL · MICCAI · ISBI
Journals
Nature Scientific Data
IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging
IEEE Trans. on Image Processing
IEEE Trans. on Multimedia
IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing
IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing
IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Internet Computing
Neural Networks
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Intl. Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
JMIR Cancer
Mentorship
Core Team Members at UIUC
- Yifan Shen — UIUC PhD student, advised by Prof. Ismini Lourentzou & Prof. James M. Rehg
- Houze Yang — UIUC PhD student, advised by Prof. Inki Kim
- Yuanzhe Liu — UIUC PhD student, advised by Prof. Ismini Lourentzou
Students & Mentees at 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 → Georgia Tech MSCS
Community
- Microlearning Series — Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
- Author Mentorship Program — Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H)
Fellowships & awards
- 2026CHIL Best Paper Award (1 in 142 submissions)
- 2025CIFAR Next Generation Trainee Fellowship
- 2025NeurIPS Top Reviewer
- 2023AAAI Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence Award
- 2015Silver Medal, 24th China National Biology Olympiad