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Dr. TANG Hao唐昊

Research Fellow
College of Computing and Data Science
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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  • Email: howard.haotang [at] gmail.com
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Nanyang Technological University
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Nanjing University of Science and Technology

About Me

I am currently a Research Fellow at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University, working with Prof. Adams Wai-Kin Kong. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Smart Health, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, working with Prof. Jing (Harry) Qin. I received my Ph.D. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Jinhui Tang (IAPR Fellow) and the co-supervision of Prof. Zechao Li. During my doctoral studies, I was also fortunate to work closely with Prof. Shengfeng He, Prof. Jun Liu (IAPR Fellow), and Prof. Guo-Jun Qi (IEEE/IAPR Fellow).

My research interests lie in Multimodal Large Language Models, Autonomous Agents, and Trustworthy AI, with a particular focus on fine-grained, data-efficient, and robust learning, as well as their applications to AI for Healthcare and AI for Safety. The long-term goal of my research is to build reliable and adaptable intelligent systems that, like humans, can learn, reason, and act in limited, dynamic, and imperfect real-world environments.

I am always open to research collaborations and academic exchanges. Please feel free to contact me via email or WeChat.

Recent News

  • Oct 2026Named among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University / Elsevier.NEW
  • Sep 2026Joined the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), NTU, as a Research Fellow.
  • Aug 2026One paper has been accepted by Information Fusion (JCR Q1, IF=17.40).
  • Jul 2026Invited to serve as a Senior Program Committee (SPC) member for AAAI 2027.
  • Jul 2026One paper has been accepted by IEEE TDSC (JCR Q1, CCF-A, IF=7.50).
  • Jun 2026One paper has been accepted by IJCV (JCR Q1, CCF-A, IF=10.30).
  • May 2026One paper has been early-accepted by MICCAI 2026 (CCF-B, Acceptance Rate 9.0%).
  • May 2026Two papers have been accepted by ICML 2026 (CCF-A, Acceptance Rate 26.6%).
  • Mar 2026One paper has been accepted by Pattern Recognition (JCR Q1, CCF-B, IF=7.60).
  • Feb 2026One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2026 (CCF-A, Acceptance Rate 25.4%).
  • Feb 2026Received the Outstanding Program Committee Award at AAAI 2026.
  • Jan 2026Co-organized the NTIRE 2026 CDFSOD Challenge at CVPR 2026.
  • Jan 2026Invited to serve as an Area Chair for IJCNN 2026.
  • Jan 2026One paper has been accepted by IJCV (JCR Q1, CCF-A, IF=9.30).
  • Nov 2025Received the Best Reviewer Award at CCBR 2025.
  • Nov 2025Four papers have been accepted by AAAI 2026 (CCF-A, Acceptance Rate 17.6%).
  • Oct 2025One paper has been accepted by IEEE TDSC (JCR Q1, CCF-A, IF=7.30).
  • Sep 2025Invited to serve as an Area Chair for ICASSP 2026.
  • Aug 2025Invited to serve as Session Chair of the “Zero-shot and Few-shot Learning” session at IJCAI 2025.
  • Jul 2025My Ph.D. dissertation received the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of NJUST.
  • Jul 2025One paper has been selected as an ESI Hot Paper (top 0.1% of papers in the academic field).
  • Jun 2025One paper has been accepted by Journal of Software (软件学报, CCF-A).
  • May 2025One paper has been accepted by IEEE TIFS (JCR Q1, CCF-A, IF=6.30).
  • May 2025Received the inaugural IEEE T-BIOM Outstanding Reviewer Award.
  • Apr 2025Two papers have been accepted by IJCAI 2025 (CCF-A, Acceptance Rate 19.3%).
  • Apr 2025One paper has been accepted by IEEE TMM (JCR Q1, CCF-B, IF=8.40).
  • Jan 2025Invited to serve as an Area Chair for IJCNN 2025.
  • Jan 2025Invited to serve as a Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Recent Advances in Applications of Machine Learning and Computer Vision” in Electronics (IF=2.60).
  • Dec 2024One paper has been accepted by AAAI 2025.
  • Nov 2024One paper has been accepted by IEEE TPAMI (CCF-A, IF=20.80).
  • Jul 2024One paper has been accepted by ACM Multimedia 2024.
  • May 2024Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation.
  • Apr 2024One paper has been accepted by IEEE TKDE (CCF-A, IF=8.90).
  • Apr 2024One paper has been accepted by IEEE TNNLS (JCR Q1, IF=10.40).
  • Feb 2024One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2024.
  • Feb 2024One paper has been accepted by IEEE TCSVT (JCR Q1, IF=8.40).
  • Jan 2024One paper has been selected as an ESI Hot Paper (top 0.1% of papers in the academic field).

Selected Publications Google Scholar citations

For the full list, please see my Google Scholar profile. ✉︎ denotes the corresponding author.

Honors & Awards

Professional Services

Area Chair / Senior Program Committee
  • International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2025, 2026, 2027
  • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2026, 2027
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2027
Guest Editor
Electronics, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Applications of Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Journal Reviewer
TPAMI IJCV TIP TIFS TDSC TMM TVCG TNNLS TCSVT TGRS SCIS
Conference Reviewer / Program Committee Member
NeurIPS ICML CVPR ICCV ICLR AAAI ACM MM ECCV IJCAI

Collaborations