Ji-Zhe Zhou

Ji-Zhe ZHOU (周吉喆)

Tenure Associate Professor

School of Computer Science
Sichuan University

Other Used Names
Kat-Chit Chow
🏆 Sichuan Province Thousand Talents 📋 Associate Editor, IEEE TETCI

👤 About Me

I am a tenure associate professor at the School of Computer Science, Sichuan University (Dec 2025 - present). I obtained my B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. (early graduation) from the University of Macau, where I was supervised by Prof. Chi-Man Pun (Listed World's Top 2% Scientists). I was also a research intern at CSE, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Jun 2016 - Jun 2018).

My research interests include Multimedia Forensics / Fake Image Detection, Causal Inference through Multimodal Large Language Models, Multimedia Interpretation and Contents Generation, and 3D Vision & Perception. I am the leader and supervisor of multiple influential works, including IML-ViT, IMDL-BenCo, SparseViT, and ForensicHub.

中文简介:周吉喆,四川大学计算机学院特聘副教授(2025年12月至今)、TETCI副主编、四川省千人。博士毕业于澳门大学(提前毕业),师从潘治文教授(全球前2%顶尖科学家)。研究方向包括多媒体取证、伪造图像检测、多模态大语言模型因果推理、多媒体内容生成与理解、三维视觉与感知等。主导开发了IML-ViT、IMDL-BenCo、SparseViT、ForensicHub等有影响力的开源项目。

📢 Recruitment

I am looking for self-motivated M.Sc. and Ph.D. students with solid background in Self-supervised Learning / Content Security / 3D Vision. Please contact me via jzzhou@scu.edu.cn

🌐 1 quota for 26 fall international M.Sc student majoring in Software Engineering (accepting applications by 30th April, 2026).

🔥 News

PUBLICATION
[2026.02] OpenMMSec - SICA: First FIDL model with monolithic architecture. [PDF] [Code⭐]
SERVICE
[2026.01] Promoted as Associate Editor for IEEE TETCI
SERVICE
[2026.01] PC Member for MM 2026
SERVICE
[2026.01] PC Member for ICML 2026
SERVICE
[2026.01] PC Member for ECCV 2026
PUBLICATION
[2026.01] IEEE TMM - PASK accepted
PUBLICATION
[2025.12] AAAI 2026 - FGM-HD accepted
PUBLICATION
[2025.11] IEEE TDSC - Defensive Adversarial CAPTCHA accepted
PUBLICATION
[2025.10] IEEE TDSC - IO-RAE accepted
SERVICE
[2025.09] PC Member for ICLR 2026
SERVICE
[2025.07] PC Member for AAAI 2026
PUBLICATION
[2025.05] NeurIPS 2025 - ForensicsHub. [PDF] [Code⭐]
SERVICE
[2025.04] PC Member for NeurIPS 2025
PUBLICATION
[2025.03] CVPR 2025 - Style Quantization
PUBLICATION
[2024.12] AAAI 2025 - Mesorch accepted. [Code⭐]
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[2024.12] AAAI 2025 - Sparse-ViT accepted. [Code⭐]
AWARD
[2024.11] 🏆 2nd Prize in Alibaba Tianchi AI Challenge Track 1 (2/1574)
AWARD
[2024.11] 🏆 9th Prize in Alibaba Tianchi AI Challenge Track 2 (9/1162)
PUBLICATION
[2024.09] NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight) - IMDL-BenCo. [Code⭐]
AWARD
[2024.09] 🏆 1st Prize in Tencent AI Arena Competition (1/2000+)
PUBLICATION
[2024.07] ACM MM 2024 (Oral) - Neural Boneprint accepted
PUBLICATION
[2024.07] ACM MM 2024 (Oral) - DPPS accepted
PUBLICATION
[2024.06] PrivacyGuard framework

📖 Education & Experience

2021
Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science, University of Macau (Early Graduation)
Supervisor: Prof. Chi-Man Pun (World's Top 2% Scientists)
2018
M.Sc. in Software Engineering, University of Macau
2013
B.Sc. in Software Engineering, University of Macau

Working Experience

  • Dec 2025 - Present: Tenure Associate Professor, Sichuan University
  • Dec 2021 - Dec 2025: Associate Researcher, Sichuan University
  • Jun 2016 - Jun 2018: Research Intern, CUHK

💬 Invited Talks

"A Song of Ice and Fire: Image Tampering Techniques in the Age of Large Generative Models"
PRML 2023, Urumqi, China [Video]
"如何为直播中的人脸自动打码"
Academic Salon, Sichuan University 2021 [Link]
"Multi-Object Online-Tracking"
UMLC2019, Jeju, Korea

📝 Professional Services

📋 Editorial Roles & Area Chair

  • Associate Editor, IEEE TETCI (2026-)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Sichuan University
  • Area Chair, PRCV 2025, ICME 2026, ICMR 2026
  • Publicity Chair, CSAI 2023

⭐ Senior PC & Membership

  • Senior PC Member, IJCAI 2025 & 2026
  • Technical Committee, CSIG Information Forensics
  • Competition Organizer, 2025 Global AI A&D Challenge

👥 PC Member - CCF-A

  • CVPR 2024-2026, ICML 2024-2026, NeurIPS 2024-2025
  • ICLR 2025-2026, ICCV 2023/2025, ECCV 2024, AAAI 2024-2026

👥 PC Member - Other

  • ACM MM 2023-2026, IJCAI 2025-2026
  • ICME 2026, ICMR 2026, PRCV 2025

🧑‍🎓 Supervised Students (2022-now)

🎓 Graduated Students

@Yu Tong 佟禹 NOW Lecturer, Shantou University
Research: LLM Inference
硕士毕业入职汕头大学担任讲师,发表CCF-A类论文多篇,曾获澳门特区政府研究生奖学金。
@Jian Zhang 张健 NOW 宁德时代
Research: Defect Detection
硕士毕业入职宁德时代,从事工业缺陷检测算法研发,曾获澳门特区政府研究生奖学金。
@Ruiyang Ni 倪瑞洋 NOW 中国电信
Research: Graph Inference
硕士毕业入职中国电信,曾获澳门特区政府研究生奖学金。
@Xiaochen Ma 马晓晨 NOW Ph.D. at HKUST
Research: IML
硕士毕业,现于香港科技大学攻读博士学位,曾获澳门特区政府研究生奖学金。
@Xinyu Yang 杨欣宇 NOW Ph.D. at Tsinghua
Research: IML
硕士毕业,现于清华大学攻读博士学位,曾获澳门特区政府研究生奖学金。
@Pengsen Liu 刘鹏森 NOW Ph.D. at Nanjing University
Research: Game AI
硕士毕业,现于南京大学攻读博士学位,曾获澳门特区政府研究生奖学金。
@Bingkui Tong 童炳魁 NOW Ph.D. at MBZUAI
Research: Graph Inference
硕士毕业,现于MBZUAI攻读博士学位,曾获澳门特区政府研究生奖学金。
@Zhuohang Jiang 蒋卓航 NOW Ph.D. at PolyU
Research: Multimodal LLM
硕士毕业,现于香港理工大学攻读博士学位,曾获澳门特区政府研究生奖学金。
@Zeyu Lei 雷泽宇 NOW Master at USC
Research: Multimodal LLM
本科毕业,现于美国南加州大学攻读硕士学位,曾获澳门特区政府研究生奖学金。
@Songyu Ye 叶松雨 NOW Master at USC
Research: Medical Information
本科毕业,现于美国南加州大学攻读硕士学位,曾获澳门特区政府研究生奖学金。

📚 Current Students

@Bo Du 杜博 Intern @ Ant Group
Research: FID
@Xuekang Zhu 朱学康 Intern @ Ant Group
Research: IML
@Lei Su 粟磊 Intern @ Tencent Hunyuan
Research: Anti-AIGI
@Yunfei Wang 王韵菲
Research: IML
@Zhe Yang 杨哲
Research: FID
@Kaiwen Feng 冯凯文
Research: IML
@Liting Zhou 周莉婷
Research: Anti-AIGI
@Haowei Zhang 张皓为 Intern @ Tencent Hunyuan
Research: AIGI
@Yuanpei Zhao 赵元培 Intern @ Tencent Hunyuan
Research: AIGI
@Xiwen Wang 王汐文 (Ph.D.)
Research: Large 3D Models
@Yusheng He 何雨声 (Ph.D.)
Research: Multimodal LLM
@Chaoqun Niu 牛超群 (Ph.D.) Visiting @ NUS
Research: AIGI
@Jian Wang 王坚 (Ph.D.)
Research: AIGI
@Mingxi Guo 郭明熹 (Ph.D.) Joint PhD @ Macau
Research: Anti-AIGI
@Xiangyu Chen 陈相羽 (Ph.D.) CNNC-NPIC
Research: Defect Detection

Last updated: March 2026