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Dr. TANG Hao (唐 昊)Research FellowCollege of Computing and Data Science Nanyang Technological University Office: N4-B2C-06 Email: howard.haotang_at_gmail.com Google Scholar • Github • WeChat |
 
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About Me
Hi there 😄! I'm Hao (Howard) Tang, a currently Research Fellow at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University with Prof. Adams Wai-Kin Kong. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Smart Health, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with Prof. Jing (Harry) Qin.
I received my Ph.D. in 2024 from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, where I was supervised by Prof. Jinhui Tang (IAPR Fellow) and co-supervised by Prof. Zechao Li.
During my doctoral journey, I have been fortunately advised by and working with Prof. Shengfeng He, Prof. Jun Liu (IAPR Fellow) and Prof. Guo-jun Qi (IEEE/IAPR Fellow).
My primary research interests center on 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 in AI for Healthcare and AI for Safety.
The ultimate goal of my research is to develop reliable and adaptable machines that can learn, reason, and act in Limited, Dynamic, and Imperfect real-world environments like humans.
📫 If you are interested in collaborating or would like to get in touch, please feel free to email me or connect with me on WeChat 😊!
Recent News
- 2026/10: Ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University / Elsevier!
- 2026/09: I am thrilled to join the CCDS at NTU as a Research Fellow!
- 2026/08: One paper has been accepted by Information Fusion (JCR Q1, IF=17.40).
- 2026/07: Invited as Senior Program Committee for AAAI 2027.
- 2026/07: One paper has been accepted by IEEE TDSC (JCR Q1, CCF-A, IF=7.50).
- 2026/06: One paper has been accepted by IJCV (JCR Q1, CCF-A, IF=10.30).
- 2026/05: One paper has been early accepted by MICCAI 2026 (CCF-B, Acceptance Rate 9.0%).
- 2026/05: Two papers have been accepted by ICML 2026 (CCF-A, Acceptance Rate 26.6%).
- 2026/03: One paper has been accepted by Pattern Recognition (JCR Q1, CCF-B, IF=7.60).
- 2026/02: One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2026 (CCF-A, Acceptance Rate 25.4%).
- 2026/02: I am honored to receive the Outstanding Program Committee Award at AAAI 2026.
- 2026/01: I am honored to co-organize the NTIRE 2026 CDFSOD Challenge at CVPR 2026.
- 2026/01: Invited as an Area Chair for IJCNN 2026.
- 2026/01: One paper has been accepted by IJCV (JCR Q1, CCF-A, IF=9.30).
- 2025/11: I am honored to receive the Best Reviewer Award at CCBR 2025.
- 2025/11: Four papers have been accepted by AAAI 2026 (CCF-A, Acceptance Rate 17.6%).
- 2025/10: One paper has been accepted by IEEE TDSC (JCR Q1, CCF-A, IF=7.30).
- 2025/09: Invited as an Area Chair for ICASSP 2026.
- 2025/08: Invited as Session Chair for the “Zero-shot and Few-shot Learning” session at IJCAI 2025.
- 2025/07: My Ph.D. dissertation has been selected as Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of NJUST.
- 2025/07: One paper has been selected as ESI Hot Paper (Top 0.1% of papers in the academic field).
- 2025/06: One paper has been accepted by Journal of Software (软件学报, CCF-A).
- 2025/05: One paper has been accepted by IEEE TIFS (JCR Q1, CCF-A, IF=6.30).
- 2025/05: I am honored to receive the inaugural IEEE TBIOM Outstanding Reviewer Award.
- 2025/04: Two papers have been accepted by IJCAI 2025 (CCF-A, Acceptance Rate 19.3%).
- 2025/04: One paper has been accepted by IEEE TMM (JCR Q1, CCF-B, IF=8.40).
- 2025/01: Invited as an Area Chair for IJCNN 2025.
- 2025/01: Invited as a Leading Guest Editor for the Special Issue "Recent Advances in Applications of Machine Learning and Computer Vision" in Electronics (IF: 2.6).
- 2024/12: One paper has been accepted by AAAI 2025.
- 2024/11: One paper has been accepted by IEEE TPAMI (CCF-A, IF=20.80).
- 2024/07: One paper has been accepted by ACM Multimedia 2024.
- 2024/05: Successfully defend my PhD thesis. Heartfelt thanks to all my supporters.
- 2024/04: One paper has been accepted by IEEE TKDE (CCF-A, IF=8.90).
- 2024/04: One paper has been accepted by IEEE TNNLS (JCR Q1, IF=10.40).
- 2024/02: One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2024.
- 2024/02: One paper has been accepted by IEEE TCSVT (JCR Q1, IF=8.40).
- 2024/01: One paper has been newly selected as ESI Hot Paper (Top 0.1% of papers in the academic field).
Selected Publications
BlockMix: Meta Regularization and Self-Calibrated Inference for Metric-Based Meta-Learning
Hao Tang, Zechao Li, Zhimao Peng, and Jinhui Tang
ACM Multimedia 2020 [Code] Oral Presentation
Hao Tang, Zechao Li, Zhimao Peng, and Jinhui Tang
ACM Multimedia 2020 [Code] Oral Presentation
Connecting Giants: Synergistic Knowledge Transfer of Large Multimodal Models for Few-Shot Learning
Hao Tang, Shengfeng He, and Jing Qin
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2025 [Code] Oral Presentation
Hao Tang, Shengfeng He, and Jing Qin
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2025 [Code] Oral Presentation
FourierPET: Deep Fourier-based Unrolled Network for Low-count PET Reconstruction
Zheng Zhang, Hao Tang✉, Yingying Hu, Zhanli Hu, and Jing Qin
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026 [Code] Oral Presentation
Zheng Zhang, Hao Tang✉, Yingying Hu, Zhanli Hu, and Jing Qin
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026 [Code] Oral Presentation
Divide-and-Conquer: Confluent Triple-Flow Network for RGB-T Salient Object Detection
Hao Tang, Zechao Li, Dong Zhang, Shengfeng He, and Jinhui Tang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence [Code]
ESI Hot Paper & 
ESI Highly Cited Paper
Hao Tang, Zechao Li, Dong Zhang, Shengfeng He, and Jinhui Tang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence [Code]
ESI Hot Paper & ESI Highly Cited Paper
Learning Attention-Guided Pyramidal Features for Few-shot Fine-grained Recognition
Hao Tang, Chengcheng Yuan, Zechao Li, and Jinhui Tang
Pattern Recognition [Code] IJCAI LTDL Workshop 2021 Best Paper Award & ESI Highly Cited Paper
Top Cited Paper in Pattern Recognition (One of the most cited articles published since January 2022)
Hao Tang, Chengcheng Yuan, Zechao Li, and Jinhui Tang
Pattern Recognition [Code]
IJCAI LTDL Workshop 2021 Best Paper Award & ESI Highly Cited Paper Top Cited Paper in Pattern Recognition (One of the most cited articles published since January 2022)
Honors & Awards
- World's Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University / Elsevier, 2026
- The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Outstanding Program Committee Award, 2026
- Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award at NJUST, 2025
- The 19th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition (CCBR) Best Reviewer Award, 2025
- IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM) Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2025
- Silver Award at FSL-Based High-speed Railway Catenary Image Detection and Analysis Workshop, ICIG 2021
- Best Paper Award at Long-Tailed Distribution Learning Workshop, IJCAI 2021
- Excellent Ph.D. Students Sponsorship Program of NJUST, 2021~2023
- First Prize Scholarship of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 2018~2022
- Excellent Bachelor Thesis & Excellent Graduate Award at HEU, 2018
- First-class Innovation Scholarship, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, 2017
Professional Services
- Area Chair / Senior Program Committee: • International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2025, 2026, 2027 • International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2026, 2027 • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2027
- Guest Editor: • [Electronics] Special Issue on Recent Advances in Applications of Machine Learning and Computer Vision
- Journal Reviewer: • International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) • SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences (SCIS) • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)
- Conference Reviewer / Program Committee Member: • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)