Dongze Lian

Associate Professor School of Intelligence Science and Technology Nanjing University, Suzhou Campus Email: liandz [at] nju [dot] edu [dot] cn dzlianx [at] gmail [dot] com [Google Scholar] [DBLP]

About me

Now I am a Tenure-Track Associate Professor at Nanjing University, Suzhou Campus. My work focuses on advancing the frontiers of world models, embodied AI, and generative/multi-modal models.

• I was a Research Scientist at Huawei @ Singapore, working with Prof. Hanwang Zhang.

• I was a Postdoc at National University of Singapore (NUS), working with Prof. Xinchao Wang and Dr. Jiashi Feng.

• I received my Ph.D. degree from School of Information Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, advised by Prof. Shenghua Gao (Now Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong).

• I had an opportunity to work with Dr. Yin Zheng and Dr. Peilin Zhao in Tencent AI Lab, focusing on computer vision and deep learning.

• I received my Bachelor's Degree in Dalian University of Technology (DUT) (with Honor).

For Prospective Students

News

• [2026] I join Nanjing University as an associate professor.

• [2026] I am invited to serve as an Area Chair of NeurIPS 2026.

• [2025] 🎉 I am awarded the World's Top 2% Scientist List, by Stanford/Elsevier (in category Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing) [link].

• [2025] I am invited to serve as an Area Chair of ICLR 2026.

• [2024] 🎉 I am awarded the Outstanding R&D Contribution Individual Award of Huawei Singapore Research Center, Singpaore.

Work Experience

• Tenure-Track Associate Professor @ Nanjing University, China.

• Research Scientist @ Huawei Singapore Research Center, Singapore.

• Research Fellow @ National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Awards

• NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas), 2025.

• World's Top 2% Scientist List, by Stanford/Elsevier (in category Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing), 2025.

• Outstanding R&D Contribution Individual Award of Huawei Singapore Research Center, 2024.

• Outstanding Doctoral Graduates of Shanghai, 2021.

• National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, 2020.

• Outstanding Student of ShanghaiTech University, 2018 - 2019 & 2019 - 2020.

• Outstanding Graduates of Dalian University of Technology, 2016.