Zengqun Zhao

I am currently a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), working with Prof. Ioannis Patras and funded by the Queen Mary Principal's Scholarship. I am also fortunate to be collaborating closely with Dr. Ziquan Liu and Prof. Shaogang Gong. Previously, I obtained my MSc degree in Control Science and Engineering from Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST), where I worked with Prof. Qingshan Liu.

My research background spans human facial behaviour understanding and vision-language models. Over the years, I have worked on dynamic facial expression recognition, zero-shot recognition with large language and vision-language models, and algorithmic fairness in visual recognition systems. Currently, I focus on video generation with diffusion models, with particular interests in long video consistency, inference-time scaling, and controllable generation.

Outside of research, I am passionate about music — particularly rock music — spanning progressive rock, post rock, Britpop, gothic rock, funk rock, and shoegaze. I enjoy playing guitar and singing, and love staying active through hiking, cycling, and fitness.