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
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Biography
I'm a final year Ph.D student in University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China. 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 Tongyi Laboratory. Now I focus on the supervised fine-tuning and preference alignment technology for large multi-modal models.
Image Algorithm Engineer (internship), 2019.12-2020.10
Kuaishou Technology, Hangzhou
I joined the Search Technology Department (STD), and focused on the development and research of (commodity) image retrieval algorithm. I have published a top conference paper as the first author during the internship, with the guidance of my mentor Dr. Lei Zhang.
Teaching Assistant, 2019.8-2020.1
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei
I took charge of the course of Basic Circuit Theory, which is for junior undergraduate students of the electric and information profession. Here is the Course Website.
Publications
(* represents the corresponding 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]
Honors & Awards
Student Funding Program of Cyberspace Security College, 2024
DAS-Security Scholarship, 2023
National Scholarship for Master Students, 2021
USTC Cyberspace Special Scholarship, 2020
USTC Excellent Graduation Project, 2020
USTC Outstanding Students Scholarship (Silver), 2019
CAS SIMIT Scholarship, 2018
USTC Outstanding Students Scholarship (Bronze), 2017
Services
Program Committee Member: CVPR(25, 24), AAAI(25, 24, 23)
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