Linchao Zhu

Linchao Zhu

朱霖潮
Assistant Professor
College of Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang University

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the College of Artificial Intelligence at Zhejiang University. Previously, I was a Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney. I received my Ph.D. from UTS and my bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University.

My research aims to build an AI agent that works as an autonomous scientist, one that perceives the physical world, reasons about its principles, and grows more capable the more it interacts. At its core is an interactive world, whether physical, digital, or scientific, in which an agent acts, receives verifiable feedback, and keeps improving. For the physical and scientific worlds, I build neural simulators of complex phenomena, from materials to fluids, whose feedback is grounded in physical law. Within these environments, I train LLM agents, designing the rewards and verifiers that turn interaction into reliable reasoning.

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

Associate Editor: TIP (2025-)

Area Chair: NeurIPS (2024, 2025), ICLR (2026), ICML (2026), CVPR (2025, 2026), ACL ARR (Oct 2025, Jan 2026), ECCV (2024), ICME (2026), ICIP (2024)

Senior Program Committe: AAAI (2026)