2021 - 2023       Research Fellow, University of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

2023 – 2024     Manager of data science, American Express Innovation Lab, Singapore.

2024 - Present   Associate Professor, Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

2009 - 2013   Sun Yat-sen University, School of Information Science and Technology   BSc

2013 - 2020   Peking University, School of Electronics Engineering & Computer Science, PhD

Artificial Intelligence

Multi-Modal Data Fusion

Large Language Model and Information Retrieval

AI security

Online and Continual Learning

[1] Zhenyu Weng, Huiping Zhuang, Fulin Luo, Haizhou Li, Zhiping Lin, “Few-Shot Contrastive Transfer Learning With Pretrained Model for Masked Face Verification”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 26, pp. 3871-3883, 2024.

[2] Zhenyu Weng, Huiping Zhuang, Haizhou Li, Balakrishnan Ramalingam, Rajesh Elara Mohan, Zhiping Lin, “Online Multi-Face Tracking With Multi-Modality Cascaded Matching”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 33, pp. 2738-2752, 2023.

[3] Runhao Li, Zhenyu Weng, Huiping Zhuang, Zhiping Lin, “Neighborhood Learning from Noisy Labels for Cross-Modal Retrieval”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS), 2023.

[4] Hanwen Liu, Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, Yadong Mu, “Trapdoor normalization with irreversible ownership verification”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023.

[5] Huiping Zhuang, Zhenyu Weng, Run He, Zhiping Lin, Ziqian Zeng, “GKEAL: Gaussian Kernel Embedded Analytic Learning for Few-shot Class Incremental Task”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.

[6] Yue Zhang, Suchen Wang, Shichao Kan, Zhenyu Weng, Yigang Cen, Yap-peng Tan, “POAR: Towards Open Vocabulary Pedestrian Attribute Recognition”, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMM), 2023.

[7] Jie Ruan, Zhenyu Weng, Jian Zhang, Yuqing Wang, Longhui Yu, Qiankun Gao, Yuesheng Zhu, “Style Expansion Without Forgetting for Handwritten Character Recognition”, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2023.

[8] Zhaokun Zhou, Shuaijian Ji, Yuqing Wang, Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, “TRMER: Transformer-Based End to End Printed Mathematical Expression Recognition”, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2023.

[9] Zhenyu Weng, Zongliang Yue, Yuesheng Zhu, Jake Yue Chen, “DEMA: a distance-bounded energy-field minimization algorithm to model and layout bio-molecular networks with quantitative features”, Bioinformatics, Volume 38, Pages i359–i368, July 2022.

[10] Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, “Unsupervised Online Hashing with Multi-Bit Quantization”, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2022.

[11] Huiping Zhuang, Zhenyu Weng, Renchunzi Xie, Kar-Ann Toh, Zhiping Lin, “ACIL: Analytic Class-Incremental Learning with Absolute Memorization and Privacy Protection”, International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.

[12] Longhui Yu, Zhenyu Weng, Yuqing Wang, Yuesheng Zhu, “Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation for Incremental Implicitly-Refined Classification”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2022.

[13] Yuqing Wang, Zhenyu Weng, Zhaokun Zhou, Shuaijian Ji, Zhongjie Ye, Yuesheng Zhu, “Dual Branch Network Towards Accurate Printed Mathematical Expression Recognition”, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2022.

[14] Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, “Online Hashing with Bit Selection for Image Retrieval”, IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, vol. 23, pp. 1868-1881, 2021.

[15] Huiping Zhuang, Zhenyu Weng, Fulin Luo, Kar-Ann Toh, Haizhou Li, Zhiping Lin, “Accumulated Decoupled Learning with Gradient Staleness Mitigation for Convolutional Neural Networks”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021.

[16] Hanwen Liu, Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, “Watermarking Deep Neural Networks with Greedy Residuals”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021.

[17] Zhencheng Huang, Dehao Wu, Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, Zhiqiang Bai, “Sequence-Aware Graph Neural Network for Session-based Recommendation”, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2021.

[18] Chujun Qin, Zhilin Huang, Ruixin Liu, Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, “Bi-encoder Network with Structure-texture Consistency for Image Inpainting”, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2021.

[19] Zhilin Huang, Chujun Qin, Ruixin Liu, Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, “Semantic-Aware Context Aggregation for Image Inpainting”, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021.

[20] Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, “Concatenation Hashing: A Relative Position Preserving Method for Learning Binary Codes”, Pattern Recognition, 2020, 100:107151. (IF: 8.0)

[21] Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, “Online Hashing with Efficient Updating of Binary Codes”, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.

[22] Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, “Efficient Querying from Weighted Binary Codes”, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.

[23] Zhenyu Weng, Yuesheng Zhu, Zhiping Lin, Haizhou Li, “Real-Time Multiple Object Tracking with Discriminative Features”, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2020.