Awards & Honors
- NTU CCDS Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, 2025
- World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, 2025
- Research Assistant Professorship (RAP), NTU, 2025.
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, MOE, 2024
- WAIC Youth Outstanding Paper Award Honorable Mention, 2023
- Most Popular Research in TechBeat, 2023.
- Snap Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2022
- Three Champions (🥇x3) in NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Video Restoration and Enhancement, 2021
- NeurIPS Top 10% Outstanding Reviewer, 2020
- Outstanding Master's Graduate (Gold Award), HIT, 2018
- Best Paper Award, ACM ICIMCS, 2016
- National Scholarship, MOE, 2014
Talks
- Exploring Priors for Visual Content Restoration and Enhancement, OPTA, NTU Singapore, 2025
- Layered Image Reconstruction: Inpainting and Matting, Workshop on Mobile AI Image Enhancement at VALSE 2025, Zhuhai, China, 2025
- Advancing Ultra-HD Visual Enhancement for Immersive Media, International Excellent Young Scholars Forum, Peking University, China, 2025
- Advancing Photorealistic Visual Enhancement, Editing, and Generation, Frontiers of Intelligent Science Forum, Nanjing University, China, 2024
- Unleashing Diffusion Models for Low-Level Vision, Excellent PhD Forum at PRCV 2024, Urumqi, China, 2024
- Towards Creating a High-Quality Visual World, AI Elite Think Tank at WAIC 2024, Shanghai, China, 2024
- Generative Models for Low-level Vision, 2nd International Workshop on Extreme Exploitation of Dark Data, POSTECH, South Korea, 2024
- Diffusion Models for Low-Level Vision, Excellent PhD Forum at VALSE 2024, Chongqing, China, 2024
- Generative Models for Visual Enhancement, AI TALK, Shanghai AILab, China, 2023
Media Coverage
- CodeFormer: Unlock the Future of Visual Content Restoration with Blind Face Restoration Technology, NTU Tech Portal, 2023
- Three Champions in NTIRE Challenge 2021, NTU News, 2021
- CodeFormer promo videos have totaled over 2 million views on YouTube, by 2025.10
- CodeFormer has accumulated over 46 million runs on Replicate, by 2025.10
- CodeFormer: The best tool for restoring and enhancing facial features, 2024
- Top 10 Spaces on Hugging Face You Don't Want to Miss, 2023
- What Did Einstein Really Look Like? New AI Takes A Guess!, Two Minute Papers, 2023
- 最强的AI 视频去码、图片修复![CodeFormer], 零度解说, 2023
- 最实用的AI视频去码![CodeFormer-GUI], 零度解说, 2023
- VFX AI TOOLS on COMFYUI | ProPainter + FLUX + WAN, YouTube, 2025
- ComfyUI Propainter Node for Quick & Effective Inpainting | Remove Unwanted Elements Seamlessly, YouTube, 2025
- BEST Object Removal AI I've EVER SEEN!, YouTube, 2025
- This AI Removes Object Better Than ChatGPT, YouTube, 2025
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