Ziqi Wen
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Computer Science Department
I started my Computer Science PhD study in 24 Fall at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), advised by Professor Miguel Eckstein in Vision and Image Understanding Lab (VIU).
My research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision and cognitive psychology. Currently, I focus on developing computational models for human scene understanding. I am also interested in the emergent behavior of deep learning models that align with or differ from human behavior, and investigating what’s the reason behind that.
Before attending UCSB, I earned my master degree Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS) degree of the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) in the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). advised by Prof.Tai Sing Lee . Before attened CMU, I have received me bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in China, supervised by Prof.Zhaopeng Cui. I was also minor in Psychology during undergraduate studying.
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news
| Sep 25, 2026 | 🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that our paper, Revealing the Gap in Human and VLM Scene Perception through Counterfactual Semantic Saliency, has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026 with scores of 5, 5, 5! |
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| Feb 22, 2026 | 🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that our paper, INTERLACE: Interleaved Layer Pruning and Efficient Adaptation in Large Vision-Language Models, has been accepted to CVPR 2026 Findings! |
selected publications
2026
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Revealing the Gap in Human and VLM Scene Perception through Counterfactual Semantic SaliencyAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2026
