Xinjie Yao

About Me

Xinjie Yao (姚鑫杰) is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation at Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST), and a member of the Yunnan Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, led by Prof. Zhengtao Yu (余正涛). He received his Ph.D. in 2025 from the College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University (TJU), under the supervision of Prof. Pengfei Zhu (朱鹏飞), Assoc. Prof. Yu Wang (王煜), and Prof. Qinghua Hu (胡清华).

His research has resulted in over 20 publications, including multiple papers in premier venues such as ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCV, IEEE TMM, and IEEE TCYB. His work lies at the intersection of end-to-end automated research systems (AI4R), AI for science (AI4S), and intelligent unmanned systems. In particular, he focuses on AI-driven corrosion analysis and prediction, as well as multimodal data fusion for materials science, while advancing scalable and reliable intelligent unmanned systems for real-world deployment, especially in low-altitude environments.

Education

• Sept. 2021 - Nov. 2025, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University
• Sept. 2018 - Jun. 2021, College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China)
• Sept. 2014 - Jun. 2018, Department of Computer, North China Electric Power University

Research Interests

• AI4R
• AI4S
• Socialized Learning
• Continual Learning
• Multi-View Learning

Prospective Students

I am looking for highly self-motivated students. If you are interested, please feel free to send me your resume and academic transcript via email.

News

• [2026-04] “Incomplete cross-modality class-incremental learning in visible-thermal recognition” has been accepted by Pattern Recognition (PR, CCF-B, 中科院一区Top期刊, JCR Q1, IF=7.6).
• [2026-03] “Droc: open-set semi-supervised learning for robust perception in high-dimensional visual systems” has been accepted by International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME, CCF-B).
• [2025-09] “Graphs help graphs: multi-agent graph socialized learning” has been accepted by conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, CCF-A).
• [2025-07] “Failure analysis and corrosion prediction of scratch-coated steel plate in marine atmosphere using semantic segmentation and temporal prediction” has been accepted by Engineering Failure Analysis (EFA, 中科院二区期刊，JCR Q1，IF=5.7).
• [2025-06] “Visible-thermal cross-modality class-incremental learning” has been accepted by Expert Systems With Applications (ESWA, CCF-C, 中科院一区Top期刊, JCR Q1, IF=7.55).
• [2025-05] “Socialized coevolution: advancing a better world through cross-task collaboration” has been accepted by International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML, CCF-A).
• [2024-12] “Zero-shot learning in industrial scenarios: new large-scale benchmark, challenges and baseline” has been accepted by AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, CCF-A).
• [2024-12] Our team won the Bronze Medal in the University Track of the 2024 National Finals of the Ascend AI Innovation Competition.
• [2024-11] I have been awarded the National Scholarship.
• [2024-11] Our team won the Gold Medal in the University Track of the 2024 Tianjin Regional Finals of the Ascend AI Innovation Competition.
• [2024-05] I have been recognized as the “Outstanding Youth” by the College of Intelligence and Computing at Tianjin University.
• [2024-05] “Socialized learning: making each other better through multi-agent collaboration” has been accepted by International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML, CCF-A).
• [2024-03] “Integrated heterogeneous graph attention network for incomplete multi-modal clustering” has been accepted by International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV, CCF-A, 中科院二区, JCR Q1, IF=11.6).
• [2024-02] “Multi-view deep subspace clustering networks” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB, CCF-B, 中科院一区Top期刊, JCR Q1, IF=9.4).
• [2023-06] Our team has won the runner up of CVPR 2023 Continual Learning Challenge.
• [2022-02] “Latent heterogeneous graph network for incomplete multi-view learning” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM, CCF-B, 中科院一区Top期刊, JCR Q1, IF=8.4).

Honors

• [2024] National Scholarship
• [2024] The third place in the University Track of the 2024 National Finals of the Ascend AI Innovation Competition
• [2024] The first place in the University Track of the 2024 Tianjin Regional Finals of the Ascend AI Innovation Competition
• [2024] Outstanding Youth of the College of Intelligence and Computing at Tianjin University
• [2023] The second place in CVPR 2023 Continual Learning Challenge
• [2021] National Scholarship
• [2021] Outstanding Graduate of Shandong Province

Services

• Workshop organizing committee/member: ICCV 2021, PRCV 2022, ICCV 2023, CCDM 2024
• Reviewer of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
• Reviewer of Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
• Reviewer of International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
• Reviewer of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
• Reviewer of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems (TSMCA)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)
• Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
• Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
• Reviewer of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)
• Reviewer of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
• Reviewer of IET Intelligent Transport Systems
• Reviewer of Expert Systems
• Reviewer of IEEE Access

Selected Publications

Correspondence

• Email: yaoxinjie@tju.edu.cn
• Address: Xinzi Building, Kunming University of Science and Technology, 727 Jingming South Road, Chenggong New District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province