Jian Zhang

PhD

Reasoning & Learning Group

School of Intelligence Science and Technology

Nanjing University, Suzhou 215163, China

Supervisor

Postdoc: Professor Yang Gao

PhD: Professor Yinghuan Shi

Current Research Topics

Machine Learning
Pattern Recognition
Computer Vision
Domain Generalization

About Me

I am Jian Zhang. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in School of Intelligence Science and Technology at Nanjing University. My postdoctoral supervisor is Yang Gao. Previously, I received my PhD in Department of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing University, supervised by Yinghuan Shi in Reasoning & Learning group. I received my B.Eng. degree in School of Information Engineering at Yangzhou University in 2018.

News!

[2026-06] Two papers are accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).

[2026-06] Two papers are accepted by Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2026.

[2026-05] Two papers are accepted by International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026.

[2026-04] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).

[2026-03] Two papers are accepted by IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026.

[2025-12] One paper is accepted by AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2026 as an Oral presentation.

[2025-07] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI).

[2025-07] One paper is accepted by ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2025.

[2025-07] One paper is accepted by Pattern Recognition (PR) 2025.

[2025-06] One paper is accepted by International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025.

[2025-06] Two papers are accepted by Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025.

Publications

MVDG++: A Unified Multi-view Framework for Domain Generalization

Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2026 [Code]

Exploring Dualistic Meta-Learning to Enhance Domain Generalization in Open Set Scenarios

Xiran Wang, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yang Gao, Yinghuan Shi

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2026 [Code]

BRAIN: Bi-directional Motion Reasoning with Dynamic Memory Pruning for Surgical Video Segmentation

Chuanzhen Xu, Shumeng Li, Jian Zhang*, Yinghuan Shi

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2026

HK-Fuse: Hilbert-Interleaved Kimi Delta Attention for Incomplete-Modality Brain Tumor Segmentation

Weizhi Zhang, Shumeng Li, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Ling Lin, Qian Yu, Yuqi Fang, Yinghuan Shi

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2026

Furina: Fragmented Uncertainty-Driven Refusal Instability Attack

Tongxi Wu, Jian Zhang*, Yang Gao*

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 [Code]

Are Tools Always Beneficial? Learning to Invoke Tools Adaptively for Dual-Mode Multimodal LLM Reasoning

Qinghe Ma, Zhen Zhao, Yiming Wu, Jian Zhang, Lei Bai, Yinghuan Shi

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 [Code]

When Shared Knowledge Hurts: Spectral Over-Accumulation in Model Merging

Yayuan Li, Ze Peng, Jian Zhang, Jintao Guo, Yue Duan, Yinghuan Shi

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 [Code]

Towards the Connection between Activation Sparsity and Flat Minima

Ze Peng, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yang Gao, Yinghuan Shi

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2026 [Code]

Diversity-enhanced Collaborative Mamba for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation

Shumeng Li, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Luping Zhou, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao,

Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) 2025

GA-SAM: Geometry-Aware SAM Adaptation with Sparse Annotation-Driven Point Cloud Completion

Shumeng Li, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi,

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025

Unleashing the Power of Intermediate Domains for Mixed Domain Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

Qinghe Ma, Jian Zhang, Zekun Li, Lei Qi, Qian Yu, Yinghuan Shi,

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) 2025

Steady Progress Beats Stagnation: Mutual Aid of Foundation and Conventional Models in Mixed Domain Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

Qinghe Ma, Jian Zhang, Zekun Li, Lei Qi, Qian Yu, Yinghuan Shi,

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025

Balanced Direction from Multifarious Choices: Arithmetic Meta-Learning for Domain Generalization

Xiran Wang, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi,

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025

Leveraging Flatness to Improve Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds for SGD

Ze Peng, Jian Zhang, Yisen Wang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025

The Devil is in the Statistics: Mitigating and Exploiting Statistics Difference for Generalizable Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation

Muyang Qiu, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Qian Yu, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024

Learn to Preserve and Diversify: Parameter-Efficient Group with Orthogonal Regularization for Domain Generalization

Jiajun Hu, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024

Exploring Flat Minima for Domain Generalization with Large Learning Rates

Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

Constructing and Exploring Intermediate Domains in Mixed Domain Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation

Qinghe Ma, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Qian Yu, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024

DomainAdaptor: A Novel Approach to Test-time Adaptation

Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023 [Code]

Generalizable Decision Boundaries: Dualistic Meta-Learning for Open Set Domain Generalization

Xiran Wang, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023 [Code]

MVDG: A Unified Multi-view Framework for Domain Generalization

Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022 [Code]

A Generalizable Semantic Segmentation via Model-agnostic Learning and Target-specific Normalization

Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi, Yang Gao

Pattern Recognition (PR) 2022 [Code]

Inconsistency-aware Uncertainty Estimation for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation

Yinghuan Shi, Jian Zhang, Tong Ling, Jiwen Lu, Yefeng Zheng, Qian Yu, Lei Qi, Yang Gao

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) 2021 [Code]

Services

Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, TMI, TNNLS etc.

Correspondence

Address: Jian Zhang, Suzhou Campus, Nanjing University, 1520 Taihu Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, 215163, China.