Deli Zhao is leading the AI team in Alibaba DAMO Academy. Working with Dr. Jingren Zhou, my team has released Alibaba Tongyi big models such as Composer 2.0, VideoComposer 1.0, and I2VGen-XL for customizable and creative image generation and video synthesis, respectively. Before joining Alibaba, I worked at HTC and Xiaomi as the research director for six years. I also spent six wonderful years doing research in the Visual Computing Group of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and in the Multimedia Lab (MMLab) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), working with Prof. Xiaoou Tang. I have performed research on computer vision and machine learning for nearly two decades, now mainly focusing on generative models, multi-modal learning, and foundation models. I am also interested in the fundamental principle of deep learning (two theoretical papers coworking with Prof. Michael Jordan). I closely work with Dr. Yujun Shen on generative models.
News
[11/2023]: We released our new video generation modelI2VGen-XL!
[09/2023]: 5 papers accepted by NeurIPS. The acceptance rate in my team is 55.6% (official 26.1%).
[09/2023]: Keynote on "Towards On-Chain AI" at Shanghai Blockchain Week. The slides are available here.
[07/2023]: 12 papers accepted by ICCV. The acceptance rate in my team is 70.6% (official 26.8%).
[06/2023]: We released VideoComposer, the Alibaba big model on video generation and editing.
[06/2023]: Keynote and round-table discussion on AIGC and design at U Design Week.
[04/2023]: 3 papers accepted by ICML. The acceptance rate in my team is 75% (official 27.9%).
