

Zheren Fu
PhD student
School of Cyber Science and TechnologyUniversity of Science and Technology of China
A504, Xinzhi Building, Gaoxin Campus of USTC, Hefei, China
fzr@mail.ustc.edu.cn
[Google Scholar] [Linkedin] [Github]
Biography
I'm a final year Ph.D student in University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). And I'm studying in the National Engineering Laboratory for Brain-inspired Intelligence Technology and Application (NEL-BITA) and Laboratory for Future Networks (LFN) supervised by Professor Zhendong Mao. My research field includes Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Large Multi-modal Model, and Cross-modal Alignment.
Education
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 2020.9-2025.6
Ph.D's Degree, Cyberspace Security
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 2016.9-2020.6
Bachelor's Degree, Electronic Information Engineering
GPA: 3.81/4.3
Experiences
Multi-modal Algorithm Engineer (internship), 2024.5-Now
Alibaba Group, Beijing
I work in the Qwen Team of Tongyi Laboratory, and focus on the post-training for the Qwen-VL series.
Image Algorithm Engineer (internship), 2019.12-2020.10
Kuaishou Technology, Hangzhou
I work in the Search Technology Department, and focused on image retrieval with Prof. Lei Zhang.
Teaching Assistant, 2019.8-2020.1
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei
I took charge of the Basic Circuit Theory for EECS undergraduate students.
Publications
First Author
Zheren Fu, Lei Zhang, Hou Xia, Zhendong Mao*, Linguistic-Aware Patch Slimming Framework for Fine-grained Cross-Modal Alignment, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR, CCF-A), 2024 [PDF] [Link] [Code]
Zheren Fu, Zhendong Mao*, Yan Song, Yongdong Zhang, Learning Semantic Relationship among Instances for Image-Text Matching, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR, CCF-A), 2023 [PDF] [Link] [Code]
Zheren Fu, Zhendong Mao*, Bo Hu, Anan Liu, Yongdong Zhang, Intra-class Adaptive Augmentation with Neighbor Correction for Deep Metric Learning, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM, CCF-B), 2022 [PDF] [Link] [Code]
Zheren Fu, Zhendong Mao*, Chenggang Yan, Anan Liu, Hongtao Xie, Yongdong Zhang, Self-supervised Synthesis Ranking for Deep Metric Learning, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT, CCF-B), 2021 [PDF] [Link]
Zheren Fu#, Yan Li#, Zhendong Mao*, Quan Wang, Yongdong Zhang, Deep Metric Learning with Self-Supervised Ranking, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, CCF-A), 2021 [PDF] [Link]
Others
Licheng Zhang, Zhendong Mao*, Yixing Peng, Zheren Fu, Yongdong Zhang, Multi-Prototype Grouping for Continual Learning in Visual Question Answering, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP, CCF-B), 2025 [Link]
Honors & Awards
National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students, 2021
USTC Excellent Graduation Project, 2020
Services
Program Committee Member: CVPR(25, 24), ICCV(25), NeurIPS(25), AAAI(25, 24, 23), ACM-MM(25)
Invited Reviewer: T-PAMI, T-MM, T-CSVT
Patents
毛震东,张勇东,赵博文,付哲仁,基于图像情感倾向的多模态谣言检测方法,申请号:202010940956.5
张勇东,毛震东,邓旭冉,付哲仁,一种基于预训练语言模型的网络谣言检测方法,申请号:201911379298.0