PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jiahuan Zhou

Also known as 周嘉欢

Jiahuan Zhou is a computer vision researcher whose work spans remote gaze estimation, lifelong person re-identification and visual prompting. He earned a B.E. in automation at Tsinghua and a Ph.D. at Northwestern under Ying Wu, where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and research assistant professor before joining Peking University in March 2022. His papers include a 2016 gaze-estimation method, DASK for exemplar-free lifelong person re-identification, and 2025 work on Vision Mamba and vision graph prompting. As of October 2026, he is a tenure-track assistant professor at Peking University's Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, where he researches computer vision, multimodal learning and AI4Science.

Timeline

  1. 2013

    Tsinghua engineering degree

    In 2013, he earns a B.E. in the Automation Department at Tsinghua University.

  2. 2016

    Remote gaze estimation

    A 2016 CVPR paper he coauthors, “Learning Reconstruction-Based Remote Gaze Estimation,” proposes a metric that aligns affinity structures in appearance and gaze spaces.

  3. 2018

    A Northwestern doctorate

    He earns a Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 2018 under the supervision of Ying Wu.

  4. March 2022

    Joining Peking University

    In March 2022, he joins Peking University after working with Ying Wu as a postdoctoral fellow and research assistant professor at Northwestern University.

  5. 2024

    DASK for lifelong re-identification

    In 2024, he coauthors DASK, an exemplar-free method for lifelong person re-identification that rehearses old-domain distributions without storing exemplars.

  6. 2025

    Visual prompting papers

    In 2025, he coauthors “Selective Visual Prompting in Vision Mamba,” whose lightweight prompters adaptively activate Mamba update and forget gates. He also coauthors “Vision Graph Prompting via Semantic Low-Rank Decomposition,” which combines semantic low-rank features with prompts on vision graph topologies.

  7. September 2026

    ICCV workshop chair

    In September 2026, he is invited to serve as workshops chair for ICCV 2027.

  8. As of October 2026

    Tenure-track assistant professor

    As of October 2026, he is a tenure-track assistant professor at Peking University's Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology. His research interests include computer vision, multimodal learning and AI4Science.

Career

  1. NowPeking UniversityTenure-track assistant professor
  2. Until 2022Northwestern UniversityPostdoctoral fellow

Education

  1. 2018Northwestern UniversityPh.D.
  2. 2013Tsinghua UniversityB.E.

From the biography.

  1. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Peking University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Peking University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes Peking University. Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Peking University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.

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  1. Jiahuan Zhou - 北京大学人工智能研究院 ai.pku.edu.cn. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Learning Reconstruction-Based Remote Gaze Estimation openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. PKU-OV3 周嘉欢主页 zhoujiahuan1991.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. DASK: Distribution Rehearsing via Adaptive Style Kernel Learning for Exemplar-Free Lifelong Person Re-Identification arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Selective Visual Prompting in Vision Mamba ojs.aaai.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Vision Graph Prompting via Semantic Low-Rank Decomposition proceedings.mlr.press. Checked 21 October 2026.