Zeyu Chen

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Welcome to my personal page! Iโ€™m currently a PhD student at the Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, supervised by Dr. Kai Han at School of Computing and Data Science and Dr. Pei Liu at Applied Oral Sciences and Community Dental Care. Previously, I obtained my Master degree in data science at School of Computing and Data Science, HKU, and my Bachelor degree in Applied Statistics at Nanjing University of Science and Technology.

I am interested in machine learning and computer vision, with a particular focus on multimodal understanding, 3D vision, and spatial intelligence. I also work on reliable representation learning for dental image analysis.

News

  • April 2026 โ€” CodeBind was accepted to Findings of ACL 2026. ๐ŸŽ‰
  • April 2026 โ€” AI in Oral Health Surveillance: Critical Review was accepted by the Journal of Dental Research. ๐ŸŽ‰

Publications

CodeBind multimodal alignment overview

CodeBind: Decoupled Representation Learning for Multimodal Alignment with Unified Compositional Codebook

Zeyu Chen, Jie Li, and Kai Han

Findings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings of ACL 2026)

CodeBind learns a compositional multimodal representation space with shared codebooks for cross-modal semantics and specific codebooks for modality-unique details.

AI in oral health surveillance overview

AI in Oral Health Surveillance: Critical Review

Zeyu Chen, Pei Liu, Kai Han, Peixi Liao, Yanqi Yang, May Chun Mei Wong, Cynthia Kar Yung Yiu, and Edward Chin Man Lo

Journal of Dental Research (JDR)

This critical review examines how artificial intelligence can strengthen oral health surveillance through population-level analysis, intraoral image-based remote screening of oral conditions, and multimodal oral data integration.

Awards and Honors

  • 2024โ€“2028 โ€” HKU Postgraduate Scholarship
  • 2023 โ€” Suoxinda Scholarship in Data Science, HKU

Academic Activities

Presentations

DentMAG: Masked Autoencoding with Guidance Cues for Comprehensive Dental Diagnosis. 2026 IADR/AADOCR/CADR General Session & Exhibition, San Diego, CA, USA, March 23โ€“28, 2026. Poster

AI-assisted Photograph-based Oral Health Screening and Surveillance: A Scoping Review. 2025 IADR/AADOCR/CADR General Session & Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, June 23โ€“28, 2025. Poster

Conference Reviewer

NeurIPS 2026 ยท ICLR 2027