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2026

2026-01-01 I will join Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ) as a Professor in Spring 2026.

2025-11-22 I gave a talk on “Invertible Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems” during my visit at Stanford Computational Imaging lab, Stanford. Thanks to Prof. Gordon Wetzstein for the invitation.
2025-10-19 We organized the SaFeMM-AI workshop at ICCV 2025, where we invited Prof. Yoshua Bengio as a speaker!
2025-04-27 I co-taught the master-level course “Machine Learning” (CS229) for the Ministry of Interior, Saudi Arabia, together with Prof. Marco Canini.
2025-04-10 We released SEVERE++, a comprehensive benchmark for studying generalization capabilities in video self-supervised learning.
2025-03-12 Ego4D got 1000+ citations!
2025-02-27 All 3 papers submitted to CVPR 2025 were accepted: BOLT, SMILE, OSMamba!
2025-02-05 IDM is published in TPAMI!
2025-01-26 I co-taught the master-level course “Deep Learning for Visual Computing” (CS323) for the Ministry of Interior, Saudi Arabia, together with Prof. Bernard Ghanem.
2025-01-14 I gave a talk on “Video Understanding for Embodied AI” virtually at Sun Yat-sen University. Thanks to Prof. Liang Lin for the invitation.
2025-01-08 I gave a talk on “Long-form Video Understanding in the 2020s” at Artifical Intelligence Research Institute, Shenzhen MSU-BIT. Thanks to Prof. Runhao Zeng for the invitation.

2024-12-05 I gave a talk on “Long-form Video Understanding in the 2020s” at Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center, HITSZ. Thanks to Prof. Jingyong Su for the invitation.
2024-10-07 I gave a lecture on “Reversifying Neural Networks: Efficient Memory Optimization Strategies for Finetuning Large Models” in KAUST CS Seminar. Thanks Prof. Di Wang for the invitation.
2024-06-18 I gave a talk on “Towards More Realistic Continual Learning at Scale” as an invited speaker in the CLVision Workshop in CVPR 2024, Seattle.
2024-06-17 We have won the first place in 4 challenges in CVPR 2024: Epic-kitchens audio-based interaction detection, Epic-kitchens action detection, Epic-kitchens action recognition, Ego4D Visual Queries 3D!
2024-06-11 I gave a talk on “Optimizing Memory Efficiency in Pretrained Model Finetuning” in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR), UC Berkeley. Thanks to Prof. Jitendra Malik for the invitation.
2024-05-05 I gave a lecture in KAUST CEMSE graduate seminar on “Toward Long-form Video Understanding” as part of KAUST Research Open Week!
2024-03-28 We released OpenTAD, an open-source toolbox for temporal action detection (TAD), comprising 14 methods with 8 datasets.
2024-02-27 4 papers are accepted to CVPR 2024: Dr2Net, AdaTAD, TGT, and Ego-Exo4D!
2024-02-19 I gave a spotlight talk in the Rising Star in AI Symposium 2024 !

2023-12-15 I gave a talk in HIT Webinar on “Challenges and innovation for long-form video understanding: compute, algorithm, and data”. Thanks to Prof. Jiancheng Yang for the invitation.
2023-08-24 I served as a judge in the finals of the AI for All Hackathon, organized by KAUST, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and the Saudi Data & AI Authority.
2023-08-08 EgoLoc is selected as an ORAL in ICCV'23!
2023-08-07 Ego4D was accepted to TPAMI (recommended submission as an CVPR'22 award winner)!
2023-07-14 All three papers (LAE, FreeDoM, EgoLoc) submitted to ICCV'23 were accepted!
2023-06-22 SMILE won the Best Paper Award in CVPRW'23 CLVision!
2023-06-22 We won the first place in CVPR'23 Ego4D VQ3D Challenge!
2023-05-04 I was awarded the SDAIA-KAUST AI Fund!
2023-04-07 ETAD was accepted to CVPRW'23 ECV!
2023-04-04 OWL was accepted to CVPRW'23 L3D-IVU !
2023-03-29 SMILE was accepted to CVPRW'23 CLVision!
2023-02-27 Re2TAL and LF-VSN were accepted to CVPR'23!
2023-02-20 I gave a spotlight talk in the Rising Star in AI Symposium 2023 !

2022-12-02 I was the lecturer in the Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp on behalf of KAUST to Saudi Arabia’s smartest undergraduate students!
2022-07-04 R-DFCIL and EASEE were accepted into ECCV'22!
2022-06-21 Ego4D got into CVPR'22 Best Paper Finalist!
2022-04-18 All Ego4D challenges are live now!
2022-03-29 Ego4D was accepted to CVPR'22 as ORAL presentation!
2022-03-29 MAD was accepted to CVPR'22!

2021-11-30 I gave a talk on “Detecting Actions in Videos via Graph Convolutional Networks” virtually at the computer vision group, University of Bristol. Thanks to Prof. Dima Damen for the invitation.
2021-10-15 Ego4D was released and paper on arxiv!
2021-07-23 VSGN was accepted to ICCV'21!
2021-05-20 I was recognized by CVPR’21 as Outstanding Reviewer!

2020-07-29 ThumbNet was accepted to ACM MM'20!
2020-06-07 We won the 2‑nd place in the HACS’20 Weakly‑supervised action detection Challenge!
2020-02-27 G-TAD was accepted to CVPR'20!

2019-10-23 Our paper for YouTube-8M challenge got accepted as Oral presentation in ICCV'19 Workshop!
2019-10-12 We missed the gold medal by only 0.0004 in Kaggle’s 3rd YouTube‑8M Video Understanding Challenge; rank 9/11 out of 283 teams in the public/private leaderboards!