Bio: I am a third-year dual-degree Master’s student pursuing an MS in Technology Innovation at the University of Washington (Seattle) and an MS in Engineering (Data Science & IT) at Tsinghua University. At Tsinghua, I am affiliated with the Pervasive HCI Lab, where I am advised by Prof. Yuanchun Shi and Prof. Yuntao Wang. Concurrently, I am a research assistant at the UW CSE RAIVN Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Ranjay Krishna and senior Ph.D. student Jieyu Zhang.

Research Interests: My research focuses on Data-centric AI, Text-to-Vision Generation, Multimodal Learning, Ubiquitous computing, etc.

📝 Selected Publications

(* denotes equal contribution, + denotes corresponding author)

Preprints

• Generate Any Scene: Evaluating and Improving Text-to-Vision Generation with Scene Graph Programming
  Ziqi Gao*, Weikai Huang*, Jieyu Zhang, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Ranjay Krishna+

Peer-reviewed

• MMTSA: Multi-Modal Temporal Segment Attention Network for Efficient Human Activity Recognition
  Ziqi Gao*, Yuntao Wang*+, Jianguo Chen, Junliang Xing, Shwetak Patel, Xin Liu, Yuanchun Shi.
  IMWUT 2023 (UbiComp2023 Oral)

🎓 Education

• University of Washington
  M.S. in Technology Information
  2023 – 2025 (Expected)
• Tsinghua University
  M.S. in Data Science and Information Technology
  2022 – 2025 (Expected)

🏅 Awards

• ‘129’ Scholarship of Tsinghua University, 2024
• First-Class Scholarship of Tsinghua University, 2023

📫 Contact

Email: gzq@uw.edu