About me

I am currently working as an Algorithm Expert at Alibaba’s Amap in Beijing, China. Prior to this role, I completed my Master of Science degree in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL), UK, where I was supervised by Dr. Laura Toni. Before pursuing my master’s, I earned my B.E. degree in the School of Software Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China, under the guidance of Dr. Shunli Zhang.

Education

• University College London Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
  Integrated Machine Learning System
  Master of Science
  Sep. 2020 - Sep. 2021

• Beijing Jiaotong University School of Software Engineering
  Software Engineering
  Bachelor of Engineering
  Sep. 2016 - Jun. 2020

Professional Experience

• Alibaba AMAP Algorithm Expert
  May. 2022 - now
  Research on vision-language-model, digital human, digital twin, navigation.

• King’s College London Research Assistant
  Feb. 2021 - Dec. 2021
  Project: Remote sensing and machine learning to detect global dams and associated reservoirs
  Working with Dr. Miaojing Shi, Dr. Arnout van Soesbergen and Dr. Mark Mulligan.

• Baidu Paddlepaddle Developer Expert
  Awarded in Aug. 2020
  Published two technical articles(1)(2) on PaddlePaddle WeChat official account.
  Contribute code to PaddlePaddle open-source community.

• Tsinghua University Research Assistant
  Oct. 2019 - May. 2020
  Research on Temporal Action Detection algorithms and Gait Recognition algorithms.

News

• [Apr. 2025] One paper is accepted for highlight presentation by CVPR 2025.
• [Mar. 2025] Promoted to become an algorithm expert at Alibaba.
• [Mar. 2024] Promoted to become a senior algorithm engineer at Alibaba.
• [May. 2022] I start working as an algorithm engineer at Alibaba.
• [Apr. 2022] One paper is accepted for publication by IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (TGRS).
• [Mar. 2022] One paper is accepted for publication by Energy Reports.
• [Dec. 2021] I receive Msc degree from University College London.
• [Sep. 2021] One paper is accepted for oral presentation and publication by ICPE 2021
• [Mar. 2021] I receive several job offers from Alibaba, Baidu, Bytedance, Huawei, Momenta, etc.
• [Feb. 2021] I start working as a Research Assistant in the Department of Informatics, King’s College London.
• [Dec. 2020] My graduation thesis of bachelor degree is awarded as ‘Excellent Graduation Thesis in Beijing’.
• [Aug. 2020] I am awarded as PPDE (PaddlePaddle Developer Expert) by Baidu.
• [Jun. 2020] I receive B.E. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University.

Publications

• Chu Z, Xiong F, Liu M, et al. HumanRig: Learning Automatic Rigging for Humanoid Character in a Large Scale Dataset[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02317, 2024. [paper]
• Zedong C, Van Soesbergen A, Shi M, Mulligan M. Dam reservoir extraction from remote sensing imagery using tailored metric learning strategies. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING. 2022 Apr 25.
• Chen J, Chu Z, Zhao R, et al. Output prediction of alpha-type Stirling engines using gradient boosted regression trees and corresponding heat recovery system optimization based on improved NSGA-II[J]. Energy Reports, 2022, 8: 835-846. [paper]
• Lin, Beibei, Shunli Zhang, Xin Yu, Zedong Chu, and Haikun Zhang. “Learning Effective Representations from Global and Local Features for Cross-View Gait Recognition.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01461 (2020). [paper]

Honor and Awards

• [May. 2019] The Second-class Prize of the 10th China College Students Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
• [Apr. 2019] The National Innovation Training Programme of College Students.
• [Apr. 2019] the 18th place in the IBM Watson Assistant Competition.
• [Nov. 2018] The Bronze Medal of the 43rd ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia Regional Contest.
• [May. 2018] The Third-class Prize of the 9th China College Students Service Outsourcing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
• [Dec. 2016] The First-class Prize of Programming Competition BJTU.