CV/Bio

– Education

Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2023
- 2024 College of Engineering (COE) Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
- 2024 ECE Best Disseration Anil Jain Memorial Award
B.S. in Information Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2019

Z. Lai, H. Zhang, B. Zhang, W. Wu, H. Bai, A. Timofeev, X. Du, Z. Gan, J. Shan, C-N. Chuah, Y. Yang, M. Cao, “VeCLIP: Improving CLIP Training via Visual-enriched Captions,” ECCV 2024.
Z. Lai, J. Chauhan, B. N. Dugger, C-N. Chuah, “Bridging the Pathology Domain Gap: Efficiently Adapting CLIP for Pathology Image Analysis with Limited Labeled Data,” ECCV 2024.
Z. Lai, H. Bai, H. Zhang, X. Du, J. Shan, Y. Yang, C-N. Chuah, M. Cao, “Empowering Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Large-scale Pre-trained Vision-Language Models,” WACV 2024.
Z. Lai, S. Vesdapunt, N. Zhou, J. Wu, X. Li, C. Huynh, C-N. Chuah, “PADCLIP: Pseudo-labeling with Adaptive Debiasing in CLIP for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation,” ICCV 2023.
Z. Lai, C. Wang, H. Gunawan, S-C. Cheung, and C-N. Chuah, “Smoothed Adaptive Weighting for Imbalanced Semi-Supervised Learning: Improve Reliability Against Unknown Distribution Data,” ICML 2022.
Z. Lai, C. Wang, S-C. Cheung, and C-N. Chuah, “SaR: Self-Adaptive Refinement on Pseudo Labels for Multiclass-Imbalanced Semi-Supervised Learning,” CVPR Workshop on Learning with Limited Labeled Data for Image and Video Understanding (L3DIVU), June 20, 2022. (Best Paper Award)

EEC 193AB/174AB: AI System Design for Senior Undergraduate
- Fall 2019, Winter 2020
- Fall 2020, Winter 2021
- Fall 2021, Winter 2022