Linchao Zhu

Linchao Zhu

朱霖潮
Assistant Professor
College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the College of Computer Science at Zhejiang University. Previously, I was a Lecturer at the ReLER lab, University of Technology Sydney. I received my Ph.D. from UTS under the supervision of Prof. Yi Yang and my bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University.

My research develops AI systems that simulate and understand the physical world through the integration of physics-informed machine learning and computational reasoning. I aim to create intelligent simulators for complex phenomena—from materials to fluids—using: neural models that learn physical dynamics from multimodal data, and LLM reasoning engines that perform the complex calculations, time-series analysis, and mathematical problem-solving required for accurate simulation. My goal is to build an AI agent that serves as an autonomous computational scientist—capable of both perceiving the physical world and reasoning mathematically about its underlying principles.

Selected Papers

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Awards & Competitions

  • AAAI 2025 New Faculty Highlights
  • 1st Place - MABe 2022 Behaviour Representation Learning (Mouse Triplets & Ant-beetle Groups Tracks), CVPR 2022
  • 2nd Place - Evoked Emotion from Videos Challenge, CVPR 2021
  • 1st Place - EPIC-Kitchen Action Recognition 2020
  • 1st Place - EPIC-Kitchen Action Recognition 2019
  • ActivityNet Trimmed Action Recognition Competition, 2017
  • Google YouTube8M Video Classification Competition, 2017
  • 1st Place - Video Localization Competition, TRECVID 2016
  • 1st Place - Action Recognition Competition, THUMOS 2015

Professional Service

Area Chair: NeurIPS (2024, 2025), ICLR (2026), CVPR (2025, 2026), ECCV (2024), ICIP (2024)

Senior Program Committe: AAAI (2026)