I am currently a professor and dctoral supervisor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, P. R. China. In 2011, I received a Ph.D. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. From 2009 to 2010, I was a visiting scholar at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. From 2016 to 2017, I was a visiting researcher at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore. I has authored more than 100 scientific articles in international conferences and journals including T-PAMI TIP, TIFS, TNNLS, TDSC, CVPR, AAAI, ACM MM etc. My research interests include artificial intelligence, multimedia analysis and retrieval, computer vision, and machine learning. 
· Multimedia analysis and retrieval · Computer Vision · Deepfake Detection / Generic Image Manipulation Localization · Temporal Action Recogniiton/Detection · Person ReID · Image/video processing · Virtual reality
1.“Study on the key techniques on Multi-Physics-Driven Itelligent Generation and Interaction Algorithms for 3D Content in Complex Structures", National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI) ，2026-01-2029.12 2. “Study on the key techniques on Temporal Action Detection and Localization Module based onMultilevel Temporal-relation Perception", National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI) ，2024-01-2027.12 3. “Study on the key techniques on Cross-Domain Human Action Recognition based on Pairwise Deep Spatio-Temporal Network", National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI) ，2019-01 - 2022-12 4. “Study on the key techniques on Human Action Recognition Based on the Mining of Potential Associationof Multi-View and Multi-Modality", National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI) ，2016-01-2019-12 5. “Multi-view Behavior Recogniton Induced by Sparsity, Structuring and Discrimination”, National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI) ， 2013-01-2015-12 6. “Study on the key techniques on Theory and Method of Social Media Multimedia Fake Content Detection", Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin Municipality (PI) ， 2023-10 - 2026-09
[1] Zan Gao, Shenxun Wei, Weili Guan, Lei Zhu, Meng Wang, and Shenyong Chen, Identity-Guided Collaborative Learning for Cloth-Changing Person Reidentification, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, pp. 2819-2837, vol. 46, 2024. [2] Haoyu Zhang, Meng Liu, Yuhong Li, Ming Yan, Zan Gao, Xiaojun Chang, Liqiang Nie, Attribute-guided Collaborative Learning for Partial Person Re-identification, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, Volume: 45, Issue: 12, Pages: 14144-14160, 2023. [3] Yaning Zhang, Tianyi Wang, Zitong Yu, Zan Gao*, Linlin Shen, Shengyong Chen, MFCLIP: Multi-Modal Fine-Grained CLIP for Generalizable Diffusion Face Forgery Detection. IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 20: 5888-5903 (2025) [4] Yaning Zhang, Zitong Yu, Tianyi Wang, Xiaobin Huang, Linlin Shen, Zan Gao*, Jianfeng Ren, GenFace: A Large-Scale Fine Grained Face Forgery Benchmark and Cross Appearance Edge Learning. IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 19: 8559-8572 (2024). [5] Shengxun Wei, Zan Gao*, Chunjie Ma, Yibo Zhao, Weili Guan, Shengyong Chen, Multiple Information Prompt Learning for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification. IEEE Trans. Image Process. 34: 801-815 (2025) [6] Zan Gao, Hongwei Wei, Weili Guan, Jie Nie, Meng Wang, and Shenyong Chen, A Semantic-aware Attention and Visual Shielding Network for Cloth-changing Person Re-identification, in IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst. 36(1): 1243-1257 (2025) [7] Yanbing Xue, Xinyu Tian, Feifei Zhang, Xianbin Wen, Zan Gao*, Shengyong Chen, CACP: Covariance-Aware Cross-Domain Prototypes for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation. IEEE Trans. Multim. 27: 5023-5034 (2025) [8] Zhai, Shuyan, Liu, Meng, Li, Yongqiang, Gao, Zan, Zhu, Lei, Nie, Liqiang, Talking Face Generation with Audio-Deduced Emotional Landmarks, in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 14099-14111, Oct. 2024. [9] Zhicheng Sheng, Liqiang Nie, Meng Liu, Yinwei Wei, and Zan Gao, Towards Fine-Grained Talking Face Generation, IEEE Transaction Image Processing, vol. 32, pp. 5794-5807, 2023. [10] Zan Gao, Peng Chen, Tao Zhuo, Meng Liu, Lei Zhu, Meng Wang, Shengyong Chen,A Semantic Perception and CNN-Transformer Hybrid Network for Occluded Person Re-Identification. IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol. 34(4): 2010-2025 (2024). [11] Yibo Zhao, Hua Zhang, Zan Gao*, Wenjie Gao, Meng Wang and Shengyong Chen, A Novel Action Saliency and Context-Aware Network for Weakly-Supervised Temporal Action Localization, in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 25: 8253-8266 (2023). [12] Yibo Zhao, Hua Zhang, Zan Gao*, Weili Guan, Jie Nie, Anan Liu, Meng Wang, and Shenyong Chen, A Temporal-Aware Relation and Attention Network for Temporal Action Localization, IEEE Transaction Image Processing, VOL. 31, pp.4746-4760, 2022. [13] Zan Gao, Chao Sun, Zhiyong Cheng, Weili Guan, Anan Liu, and Meng Wang, TBNet: A Two-stream Boundary-aware Network for Generic Image Manipulation Localization, IEEE Transaction Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 7541-7556, 1 July 2023. [14] Z. Gao, L. Guo, T. Ren, A. -A. Liu, Z. -Y. Cheng and S. Chen, "Pairwise Two-Stream ConvNets for Cross-Domain Action Recognition With Small Data," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1147-1161, March 2022. [15] Zan Gao, Hongwei Wei, Weili Guan, Weizhi Nie, Meng Liu and Meng Wang, Multigranular Visual-Semantic Embedding for Cloth-Changing Person Re-identification, In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’22), October 10-14, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal. [16] Zan Gao, Shenhao Chen, Yangyang Guo, Weili Guan, Jie Nie, and Anan Liu, Generic Image Manipulation Localization through the Lens of Multi-scale Spatial Inconsistence, In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’22), October 10-14, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal. [17] Zan Gao, Yan Zhang, Hua Zhang, Weili Guan, Dong Feng, Shengyong Chen, Multi-Level View Associative Convolution Network for View-Based 3D Model Retrieval. IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol. 32(4): 2264-2278 (2022). [18] Zan Gao, Yibo Zhao, Hua Zhang, Da Chen, Anan Liu and Shengyong Chen, A Novel Multiple-View Adversarial Learning Network for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Action Recognition, IEEE Trans. Cybernetics, vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 13197-13211, Dec. 2022. [19] Zan Gao, Leming Guo, Weili Guan, Anan Liu, Tongwei Ren and Shengyong Chen, A Pairwise Attentive Adversarial Spatiotemporal Network for Cross-domain Few-shot Action Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 30, pp. 767-782, 2021. [20] Z. Gao, L. Gao, H. Zhang, Z. Cheng, R. Hong and S. Chen, "DCR: A Unified Framework for Holistic/Partial Person ReID," in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 23, pp. 3332-3345, 2021. [21] Zan Gao, Yuxiang Shao,Weili Guan, Meng Liu, Zhiyong Cheng, and Shengyong Chen. 2021. A Novel Patch Convolutional Neural Network for View-based 3D Model Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’21), October 20-24, 2021, Virtual Event, China. ACM, Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R China. [22] Zan Gao, Yinming Li, Weili Guan, Weizhi Nie, Zhiyong Cheng and Anan Liu, Pairwise View Weighted Graph Network for View-based 3D Model Retrieval, SIGIR, 2020. [23] Lishuai Gao, Hua Zhang, Zan Gao*, Weili Guan, Zhiyong Cheng and Meng Wang, Texture Semantically Aligned with Visibility-aware for Partial Person Re-identification, ACM MM 2020. [24] Z. Gao, L.S Gao, H.Zhang, Z.Y Cheng and R.C Hong, Deep Spatial Pyramid Feature Collaborative Reconstruction for Partial Person ReID, ACM MM 2019.
Machine Learning (Undergraduate) Deep Learning (Graduate) Introduction to Embodied Artificial Intelligence (undergraduate)
Associate editors for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology and Neural Network. Reviewer for TIP, TIFS, TDSC, TMM, TCYBE, TNNLS, TCSVT, TOMM, CVPR, ACM MM, SIGIR, WWW, and AAAI etc. IEEE Senior Member
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