Welcome to my academic homepage! I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. as a jointly trained doctoral student at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen and Great Bay University, since September 2024.

Research Interests: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), Vision-Language-Action (VLA).

Paper Submissions: Multiple papers submitted to top-tier conferences and journals including CVPR, TIP, ICML, AAAI, etc.

🔥 News

  • 2026.05:  🎉🎉 One paper accepted by TIP 2026
  • 2026.01:  🎉🎉 One paper accepted by ICLR 2026
  • 2025.11:  🎉🎉 One paper accepted by AAAI 2026 as Oral
  • 2025.07:  🎉🎉 Two papers accepted by ACM MM 2025
  • 2024.09:  Started my Ph.D. at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen&&Great Bay University
  • 2024.04:  🎉🎉 One paper accepted by IEEE TITS
  • 2023.09:  🎉🎉 One paper accepted by IVC
  • 2023.03:  Started internship at SenseTime as an Algorithm Intern

📝 Publications

TIP 2026
UniEmo

UniEmo: Unifying emotional understanding and generation with learnable expert queries

Yijie Zhu, Lingsen Zhang, Zitong Yu, Rui Shao, Tao Tan, Liqiang Nie

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (CCF A Journal)

ICLR 2026
CoEmoGen

CoEmoGen: Towards Semantically-Coherent and Scalable Emotional Image Content Generation

Kaishen Yuan, Yuting Zhang, Shang Gao, Yijie Zhu, Wenshuo Chen, Yutao Yue

ICLR (CCF A Conference)

AAAI 2026, Oral
H-GAR

H-GAR: A Hierarchical Interaction Framework via Goal-Driven Observation-Action Refinement for Robotic Manipulation

Yijie Zhu, Rui Shao, Ziyang Liu, Jie He, Jizhihui Liu, Jiuru Wang, Zitong Yu

AAAI Oral (CCF A Conference)

ACM MM 2025
EmoSym

EmoSym: A Symbiotic Framework for Unified Emotional Understanding and Generation via Latent Reasoning

Yijie Zhu, Yibo Lyu, Zitong Yu, Rui Shao, Kaiyang Zhou, Liqiang Nie

ACM MM (CCF A Conference)

ACM MM 2025
Puma

Puma: Layer-pruned language model for efficient unified multimodal retrieval with modality-adaptive learning

Yibo Lyu, Rui Shao, Gongwei Chen, Yijie Zhu, Weili Guan, Liqiang Nie

ACM MM (CCF A Conference)

TITS 2024
MENet

MENet: Multi-modal mapping enhancement network for 3D object detection in autonomous driving

Moyun Liu, Youping Chen, Jingming Xie†, Yijie Zhu†, Yang Zhang, Lei Yao, Zhenshan Bing, Genghang Zhuang, Kai Huang, Joey Tianyi Zhou

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (CCF B Journal)

IVC 2023
BF3D

BF3D: Bi-directional fusion 3D detector with semantic sampling and geometric mapping

Yijie Zhu, Jingming Xie, Moyun Liu, Lei Yao, Youping Chen

Image and Vision Computing (CCF C Journal)

📄 Preprints

arXiv
DeltaVLA

DeltaVLA: Prior-Guided Vision-Language-Action Models via World Knowledge Variation

Yijie Zhu, Jie He, Rui Shao, Kaishen Yuan, Tao Tan, Xiaochen Yuan, Zitong Yu

🎓 Educations

  • Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen & Great Bay University, Sep 2024 – Present
    Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Technology

  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Sep 2021 – Jun 2024
    Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering

  • Donghua University, Sep 2017 – Jun 2021
    Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering

💼 Internships

  • SenseTime, Feb 2023 – Aug 2023 Algorithm Intern

  • Shanghai Hehe Information Technology Co., Ltd., Jul 2022 – Sep 2022 Algorithm Intern

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Graduate, Donghua University
  • Outstanding Graduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

👨‍🎓 Academic Service

  • Reviewer

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

ACM Multimedia (ACM MM)

Pattern Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems