Researcher

Hongyuan Zhu is the Unit Head and PI of Satellite Sensing at the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR I2R). He leads the Advanced Perception and Reasoning Lab, focusing on developing autonomous agents with super-large-scale multimodal sensing and reasoning capabilities for sustainability, climate/weather and defence solutions. He was selected as a Top 2% Scientist by Stanford in 2023~2025 and received the A*STAR Career Award in 2022. His team achieved first place in the Scene2Cap challenge ICCV23 and third place in the EPIC Text-Video Retrieval Challenge in CVPR22, as well as being the only Asian team to achieve 1st Prize Finalist in the KUKA Innovation Challenge 2021.

Zhu has been an associate editor of Visual Computer since 2020. He also served as the Senior Program Committee member of IJCAI, the Area Chair of ACM MM Asia, and the Guest Editor of IET Image Processing. Hs has published around 120 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, ACL and TPAMI.