Our Team
Meet the researchers and students behind our innovations.
Faculty
Zhihai He
Professor He is a Chair Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology, IEEE Fellow (2015). Prior to returning to China full-time in June 2021, he served as a Chair Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Missouri, USA. His research interests Generative visual AI, inference and control optimization for multimodal large models, health guardian robots, AI agents. From 2019 to 2025, he has been consecutively listed on Stanford University's World's Top 2% Scientists Lifetime Scientific Impact Rankings. He possesses extensive experience in the industrialization of scientific research achievements in the fields of industrial AI inspection and AI-based home-based healthcare and elderly care. As the principal investigator, he has undertaken key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Tianyuan Mathematical and Intelligence + Cross-disciplinary Key Special Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has been honored with awards such as the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT) international journal and the Wu Wenjun AI Technological Invention Award from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.
PhD Students
Weiming Chen
Weiming Chen received the B.Eng. degree in mechanical design manufacture and automation, and the M.Sc. degree in electronic science and technology from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 2019, and 2023. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics from Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision, multi modality, AIGC, text-to-image synthesis, diffusion model, object detection, and remote sensing.
Junyang Ji
Junyang Ji is a master of Tsinghua University in Electronic and Information Engineering (2023) and now is preparing to pursue a joint Ph.D. program between Tsinghua University and Southern University of Science and Technology from 2024.
Master Students
Fan Du
Fan Du , Master of Department of Electronics of Southern University of Science and Technology.
Yongyong Gao
Yongyong Gao, master student of Department of Electronics of Southern University of Science and Technology, specializes in Multimodal Large Language Model, Large Language Model and Emobied AI.
Zhiwei Hu
Hu Zhiwei, a master's student in the Department of Electronics at Southern University of Science and Technology, and a bachelor's degree in Information Engineering at Guangdong University of Technology. My main research directions are generative AI, computer vision, etc.
Yanji Huang
Yanji Huang, master student of Department of Electronics at Southern University of Science and Technology, specializes in Autonomous Embodied Intelligence, Real-time Multimodal Avatar, and Digital Signal Compression and Encoding.
Bowen Liao
Bowen Liao, master student of Department of Electronics of Southern University of Science and Technology, specializes in Computer Vision and Machine Learning.
Kaize Luo
Kaize Luo, master student of Department of Electronics of Southern University of Science and Technology, specializes in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Multimodal Model and Embodied Intelligence.
Bingyan Wu
Bingyan Wu, master student of Department of Electronics of Southern University of Science and Technology.
Ke Yang
Ke Yang , Master of Department of Electronics of Southern University of Science and Technology, Undergraduate Graduate of the Department of Computer Science and Technology,of Hunan University of Technology and Business , with a research focus on Machine Learning, Computer Vision.
Zihao Zhou
Zihao Zhou, master student of Department of Electronics of Southern University of Science and Technology, specializes in Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Embodied AI.
Yangyang Sun
Yangyang Sun is a master's student in Electronic Science and Technology in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at SUSTech. His research focuses on spatial reasoning and embodied intelligence.
Jiaqi Lian
Jiaqi Lian is a master's student in Electronic Information at SUSTech. He received his bachelor's degree in Electronic Science and Technology from South China Agricultural University. His research interests include computer vision, multimodal large models, and embodied intelligence.
Zixuan Lv
Zixuan Lv is a master's student in Electronic Science and Technology in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at SUSTech. His main research interest is embodied intelligence.
Chenghu Qiu
Chenghu Qiu is a master's student in Electronic Information at SUSTech. He received his bachelor's degree in Intelligent Science and Technology from Shanghai University. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision, multimodal learning, and embodied intelligence.
Zihao Huang
Zihao Huang is a master's student in Electronic Information at SUSTech. He received his bachelor's degree in Internet of Things Engineering from Fuzhou University. His research interests include machine learning and embodied intelligence.
Undergraduate Students
Zhihan Zhu
Zhihan Zhu, undergraduate student of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of Southern University of Science and Technology. Currently engaged in studies and research related to machine learning and diffusion model.
Guanlin Chen
Guanlin Chen is an undergraduate student in Information Engineering in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at SUSTech.
Visiting Students
Youming Li
Youming Li, master student of Department of Biomedical Engineering of Central South University.
Siqi Wu
Siqi Wu, graduate student in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Missouri.
Alumni & Former Members
Yi Zhang
Assistant Professor, School of Computer and Software, Shenzhen University