Zheng Zhu is currently the Co-founder and Chief Scientist at GigaAI. During 2019-2021, he was a post-doc fellow at Tsinghua University. Before that, he received Ph.D. degree from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019. During 2016-2019, he was research interns at SenseTime, Horizon Robotics, and DeepGlint. He has co-authored more than 70 top journal and conference papers mainly on computer vision and robotics problems, such as world model, AIGC, autonomous driving, face recognition, and visual tracking. He has more than 18,000 Google Scholar citations to his work, including SiamRPN (3,600+ citations), DaSiamRPN (1,800+ citations) and BEVDet (1,000+ citations). His work DaSiamRPN is included in famous OpenCV Library. He was recognised as one of the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide by Stanford University (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). He won the Best Student Paper Award and CCF Outstanding Paper Award in PRCV 2025 (CCF-C Conference). He ranked the 1st on NIST-FRVT Masked Face Recognition, won the COCO Keypoint Detection Challenge in ECCV 2020 and Visual Object Tracking (VOT) Real-Time Challenge in ECCV 2018. He was the Area Chair of ICLR 2026 and Senior Program Committee of AAAI 2026.


中文简介：朱政，极佳科技联合创始人、首席科学家，智源青年学者，主导和深度参与融资超10亿元，公司估值超50亿元。2019年博士毕业于中国科学院自动化研究所；2019年至2021年在清华大学自动化系从事博士后研究。在TPAMI、 CVPR、ICCV、 ECCV、NeurIPS 等顶级期刊和会议上发表论文70余篇，文章总引用18000余次 (Google Citations)，连续4年入选全球前2%顶尖科学家榜单。获得2025年吴文俊人工智能科技奖自然科学一等奖、PRCV2025最佳学生论文奖、CCF杰出论文奖。领导了GigaBrain和GigaWorld系列工作的研发，代表作SiamRPN和DaSiamRPN是深度学习时代最具影响力的目标跟踪算法之一，开辟了区域候选孪生网络目标跟踪的研究方向，分别被引用3600余次和1800余次，并被集成进OpenCV；BEVDet是BEV感知领域的代表性算法，被多家车企和自动驾驶公司3D感知方案所采用，累计被引用1000余次；WebFace260M是全球最大的人脸识别数据集，被500余家科研机构申请使用，DriveDreamer世界模型入选ECCV最具影响力论文榜单。曾获NIST-FRVT、COCO、VOT等顶级视觉竞赛冠军，并在KITTI、nuScenes等榜单长期排名第一。多次在CVPR、ICCV上组织Workshop和比赛，多次担任ICLR、AAAI的领域主席。


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·2026-02-28 Two paper accepted by CVPR 2026.

·2026-02-10 Selected as BAAI Young Scholar.

·2026-01-30 Two paper accepted by ICLR 2026.

·2025-10-16 We won the CCF Outstanding Paper Award.

·2025-10-16 We won the Best Student Paper Award in PRCV 2025 (CCF-C Conference).

·2025-09-20 Two paper accepted by NeurIPS 2025.

·2025-08-20 Will be Area Chair of ICLR 2026.

·2025-07-30 Will be Senior Program Committee of AAAI 2026.

·2025-07-10 Two paper accepted by ICCV 2025.

·2025-02-28 Four paper accepted by CVPR 2025.

·2025-02-22 One paper accepted by T-PAMI.

·2024-12-10 Two paper accepted by AAAI 2025.

·2024-10-01 Our DriveDreamer ranks 15 in Most Influential ECCV'24 Papers.

·2024-07-01 Three paper accepted by ECCV 2024.

·2024-03-01 One paper accepted by T-PAMI.

·2024-02-01 One paper accepted by CVPR 2024.

·2024-02-01 Two paper accepted by AAAI 2024.

·2023-08-01 One paper accepted by T-PAMI.

·2023-07-01 Seven paper accepted by ICCV 2023.

·2023-07-01 One paper accepted by ICLR 2023.

·2023-07-01 Two paper accepted by ICRA 2023.

·2023-07-01 Two paper accepted by AAAI 2023.

·2023-04-01 One paper accepted by T-PAMI.

·2023-02-01 Three paper accepted by CVPR 2023.

·2022-09-30 One paper accepted by NeurIPS 2022.

·2022-07-05 Two paper accepted by ECCV 2022.

·2022-06-15 Will be Area Chair of International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2023.

·2022-04-20 One paper accepted by T-PAMI.

·2022-03-03 Seven paper accepted by CVPR 2022.

·2021-09-30 One paper accepted by NeurIPS 2021.

·2021-08-19 The reports of WebFace260M track and InsightFace track in ICCV-21 MFR Challenge are available.

·2021-07-25 One paper accepted by ICCV 2021.

·2021-06-07 WebFace260M track of MFR Challenge in ICCV 2021 is open for submission. link

·2021-04-10 We will organize the Masked Face Recognition Challenge & Workshop (MFR) in ICCV 2021.

·2021-03-19 We rank the 1st among 513 entries on the NIST-FRVT Masked Face Recognition. (name: xforwardai-002)

·2021-03-04 Two paper accepted by CVPR 2021.

·2020-10-15 Our DaSiamRPN is included in OpenCV ! (Version: 3.5+, link: OpenCV)

·2020-10-09 We rank the 3rd among 430 entries on the NIST-FRVT ! (name: xforwardai-001)

·2020-08-23 We win the COCO Keypoint Detection Challenge in ECCV COCO-LVIS 2020 Workshop !

·2020-02-24 One paper accepted by CVPR 2020.

·2019-12-13 Start Postdoc career at i-VisionGroup in Tsinghua University.

·2019-05-30 Finish my Ph.D Defense !

·2019-02-26 One paper accepted by CVPR 2019.

·2018-09-14 We win the VOT2018 Real-time Challenge in ECCV VOT2018 Workshop (ranks 1st among 72 teams) [winner slides]

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·2018-09-14 We ranks 2nd in the VOT2018 Long-term Challenge at ECCV VOT2018 Workshop. [paper] [code]

·2018-07-03 One paper accepted by ECCV 2018 as poster.

·2018-02-20 Two papers accepted by CVPR 2018, one spotlight and one poster.