About Me

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST, advised by Prof. Long Chen.

Before beginning my Ph.D., I had the opportunity to collaborate with Prof. Zhuang Liu at Princeton University, Prof. Chun Yuan at Tsinghua University, and Prof. Ming Tang at SUSTech.

My research interests lie in computer vision and multimodal learning, with a focus on building capable and reliable models for visual understanding, reasoning, and generation.

Publications (* equal contribution; † equal advising)

Stronger Normalization-Free Transformers

CVPR 2026

Mingzhi Chen, Taiming Lu, Jiachen Zhu, Mingjie Sun, Zhuang Liu

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A First Look at Privacy Cloak Against Visual Place Recognition

ICCV 2025

Shuting Dong*, Mingzhi Chen*, Feng Lu, Hao Yu, Guanghao Li, Ming Tang†, Chun Yuan†

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MIGA: Mutual Information-Guided Attack on Denoising Models for Semantic Manipulation

arXiv

Guanghao Li*, Mingzhi Chen*, Hao Yu, Shuting Dong, Wenhao Jiang, Ming Tang†, Chun Yuan†

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