Zhihe (Lucas) Lu 中文简介

Dr. Zhihe Lu is an associate professer (tenure-track) at Nanjing University (Suzhou), working on machine learning, computer vision and embodied AI. He has published over 20 technical papers in leading venues, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ACM MM, and top journals like IEEE TIP and PR. Before joining NJU, he was an assistant professer at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), before which he was a research fellow at National University of Singapore, working with Prof. Xinchao Wang. He finished the PhD degree at University of Surrey under the supervision of Prof. Tao Xiang and Prof. Yi-Zhe Song and the Master's degree at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, supervised by Prof. Ran He and Prof. Zhaoxiang Zhang. He was also fortunate to work/collaborate with Dr. Xiatian Zhu, Prof. Timothy Hospedales, Dr. Da Li, Dr. Sen He and Prof. Shuicheng Yan.

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Research Interests
Computer Vision: Object Recognition and Semantic Segmentation
Transfer Learning: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation, Source-free Domain Adaptation and Test-time Adaptation
Few-shot Learning: Meta-learning and Generalized Few-shot Models
Foundation Models: Efficient Tuning of Vision-Language Models
Embodied AI: Towards efficiency and generalization of Vision-Language Action Models
If you are interested, welcome to reach out to collaborate 😃.

Prospective Students/Staffs
- I am always seeking self-motivated and passionate PhD students and Postdocs to work on exciting projects in multimodal learning and embodied AI. We offer a supportive and enjoyable research environment. Interested candidates, please email me your CV and transcripts.
- I believe in a student-centered, inclusive approach, aiming to provide personalized guidance and foster a bright future for each student/staff in my team.

Recent News
2026.07.26: Invited as a SPC member for AAAI 2027.
2026.07.20: Joined Nanjing University as an associate professer (tenure-track).
2026.07.10: One paper (Dream-Tac) accepted on ACM MM 2026. Congrats to Yifan and co-authors!
2026.05.25: One paper (TEAM-VLA) accepted on IEEE RA-L 2026. Congrats to Yifan!
2026.03.30: One paper (SEIL) accepted on IEEE RA-L 2026. Congrats to Yifan!
2026.02.21: Two papers accepted on CVPR 2026. Congrats to Rui and Fatima!
2025.08.26: One paper accepted on TIP 2025.
2025.02.24: One paper accepted on TIP 2025.
2025.01.05: Joined HBKU as an assistant professer.
2024.09.26: One paper accepted on NeurIPS 2024.
2024.07.16: Two papers accepted on ACM MM 2024.
2024.07.01: Two papers accepted on ECCV 2024.
2024.06.10: Gave a talk on ACM ICMR 2024.
2024.05.02: One paper accepted on ICML 2024.
2024.04.21: One paper accepted on PR 2024.
2023.09.22: Two papers accepted on NeurIPS 2023.
2023.07.11: One paper accepted on TIP 2023.
2023.05.26: One paper accepted on TIP 2023.
2023.02.28: One paper accepted on CVPR 2023.

Selected Publications

Teaching
Undergraduate Courses: Data Structures (when at HBKU)
Graduate Courses: Multimedia Security (when at HBKU)

Professional Service
Area Chair / SPC: AAAI 2027
Journal Reviewers: TPAMI, IJCV, TIP, PR, etc.
Conference Reviewers: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc.