Kaifeng (Alex) Zhang

I am a Assistant Researcher at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, headed by Andrew Chi-Chih Yao.

I am now closely working with Professor Yang Gao at Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Science (IIIS) at Tsinghua University.

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Research Highlights

My research interests lie in the general area of machine learning, computer vision and robotics.
Selected Publications

Representative papers are highlighted.

"Acceptance builds resume, while rejection makes man". --- Dimitris Papadias 🧔🏻



Auto-Encoding Adversarial Imitation Learning
Kaifeng Zhang, Rui Zhao, Ziming Zhang & Yang Gao
AAMAS‘2024
arXiv / code

Summary:
(1) To the best of our knowledge, we propose the first formulation of auto-encoder based reward signal for adversarial imitation learning.
(2) Our auto-encoding AIL provides a denser reward signal to the agent policy.

Experience

Intelligent Automotive Driving BU, Huawei Co, Ltd
Engineer, Jul. 2020 to Jul. 2021
Topic: (1) Intelligent Self-Calibration for Cars with Generative Modelingp; (2) Parking Slots Detection with Surrounding Camera Views

Rhino Bird Elite Program, AI Lab, Tencent
Research Intern
Topic: Supervised Pose Estimation and 3D Mesh Recovery from 2D Images

AI Lab, NetEase Games
Research Intern
Topic: (1) Develop Machine Players for NiShuiHan (MMORPG) Game to Improve the Interests of the Gamers; (2) Imitation Learning on Atari 2600 Games (Pixel based Imitation)

Patents

A Generative Adversarial Nets based Intelligent Self Calibration Method for EPS System in Cars
Kaifeng Zhang
PCT Patent PCT/CN2021/093935
Work Done at Huawei.

Academic Services

Reviewer: ICML'2022-2024, NeurIPS'2022-2023, ICLR'2024


Honors & Awards

Outstanding Graduate Award at Provincial Level, 2017

Third Prize in RoboMaster Robotics Regional Competition, 2016

Second Provincial Prize in China Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), 2015

First Prize in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest (CMC), 2014

Merit or Pacemaker Award for Undergraduate Students x 3, 2014, 2015, 2016


Scholarships

Academic Scholarship for Graduate Students in Nanjing University × 2, 2018, 2019

YingCai Scholarship for Graduate Students, 2018

Merit Scholarship for Graduate Students in Nanjing University, 2017

Grade 89 Alumni Scholarship (top 5 in school of information science), 2015

Academic Scholarship for Undergraduate Students × 6 (Every Semester), 2014, 2015, 2016



Education
nju Computer Science, Nanjing University
🧑🏻‍🎓 Master of Science, Sep. 2017 to Jul. 2020
👨🏻‍🏫 Advisor: Professor Yang Yu
swjtu Computer Science, Southwest Jiaotong University
🧑🏻‍🎓 Bachelor of Science, Sep. 2013 to Jul. 2017
🥇 Rank: 1/105 in Computer Science Department
Misc

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