Bio: I am currently a Predoctoral Young Investigator (PYI) at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) PRIOR team, and a research assistant at the UW CSE RAIVN Lab, working with Prof. Ranjay Krishna and senior Ph.D. student Jieyu Zhang. I recently graduated with a dual Master’s degree from University of Washington (Seattle) and Tsinghua University. At Tsinghua, I was affiliated with the Pervasive HCI Lab, where I was advised by Prof. Yuanchun Shi and Prof. Yuntao Wang.

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

📝 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+

• One Trajectory, One Token: Grounded Video Tokenization via Panoptic Sub-object Trajectory
  Chenhao Zheng, Jieyu Zhang, Mohammadreza Salehi, Ziqi Gao, Vishnu Iyengar, Norimasa Kobori, Quan Kong, Ranjay Krishna+

• SOS: Synthetic Object Segments Improve Detection, Segmentation, and Grounding
  Weikai Huang, Jieyu Zhang, Taoyang Jia, Chenhao Zheng, Ziqi Gao, Jae Sung Park, 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
• Tsinghua University
  M.S. in Data Science and Information Technology
  2022 – 2025

🏅 Awards

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

📫 Contact

Email: gzq@uw.edu