Zheren Fu

Postdoctoral Researcher

School of Cyber Science and Technology
University of Science and Technology of China

Gaoxin Campus of USTC, Hefei, China
fzr AT ustc.edu.cn

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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

Internship

  • Multi-modal Algorithm Engineer, 2024.5-2025.6
    Alibaba Group, Beijing
    I work in the Qwen Team, and focus on the post-training for the Qwen-VL series.

  • Image Algorithm Engineer, 2019.12-2020.10
    Kuaishou Technology, Hangzhou
    I work in the Search Technology Department, and focused on the image retrieval.

Selected Publications

  • Zheren Fu, Zhendong Mao*, Lei Zhang, Yongdong Zhang, Boosting Faithful Multi-Modal LLMs via Complementary Visual Grounding, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP, CCF-A), 2025 [Link]

  • 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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [Link]

  • Qwen Team (as the Core Contributors), Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report, Arxiv, 2025.02 [Link] [Code]

  • Qwen Team (as the Contributors), Qwen3 Technical Report, Arxiv, 2025.05 [Link] [Code]

  • Qwen Team (as the Contributors), Qwen2.5 Technical Report, Arxiv, 2024.12 [Link] [Code]

Honors & Awards

  • USTC Outstanding Graduates, 2025

  • National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students, 2021

  • USTC Excellent Graduation Project, 2020

Services

  • Program Committee Member: CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACM-MM

  • Invited Reviewer: T-PAMI, T-MM, T-CSVT