Zhen Zhang

Zhen Zhang

Grant-Funded Researcher (C)

Australian Institute for Machine Learning - Projects

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology


Zhen Zhang is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Adelaide, working with Prof. Qinfeng (Javen) Shi. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Prof. Lee Wee Sun. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xi’an, China) under the supervision of Prof. Yanning Zhang. During Nov. 2012 to Dec. 2014, he was a visiting student at Australian Centre for Visual Technologies, University of Adelaide, under the supervision of Prof. Anton van den Hengel and Prof. Qinfeng (Javen) Shi. He completed his bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2010 at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, working with Prof. Yanning Zhang and Dr. Zhonghua Fu.

Zhen Zhang is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Adelaide, working with Prof. Qinfeng (Javen) Shi, on causality, reinforcement learning and computer vision. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Prof. Lee Wee Sun. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xi’an, China) under the supervision of Prof. Yanning Zhang. During Nov. 2012 to Dec. 2014, he was a visiting student at Australian Centre for Visual Technologies, University of Adelaide, under the supervision of Prof. Anton van den Hengel and Prof. Qinfeng (Javen) Shi. He completed his bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2010 at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, working with Prof. Yanning Zhang and Dr. Zhonghua Fu.

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Co-Supervisor Causal discovery and Out-of-Distribution generalization: sampling from posterior over causal graphs Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nadhir Hassen
    2024 Co-Supervisor Causality on Generative Model Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jiaxin Wang
    2024 Co-Supervisor Research on lightweight intelligent models based on deep learning: incorporating artificial intelligence on end devices Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Hongrong Cheng
    2023 Co-Supervisor Causal Discovery on Videos for Scene Graph Generation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hamed Damirchi
    2023 Co-Supervisor Leveraging Causality for Robust Multi-Source Domain Adaptation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Tianjiao Jiang
    2023 Co-Supervisor Domain Adaptation via Causal Representation Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yichao Cai
  • Position: Grant-Funded Researcher (C)
  • Email: zhen.zhang02@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Australian Institute for Machine Learning, floor LG
  • Org Unit: Australian Institute for Machine Learning - Operations

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