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

• Molmo2: Open Weights and Data for Vision-Language Models with Video Understanding and Grounding
  Christopher Clark, Jieyu Zhang, Zixian Ma, Jae Sung Park, Mohammadreza Salehi, Rohun Tripathi, Sangho Lee, Jason Ren, Chris Dongjoo Kim, Yinuo Yang, Vincent Shao, Yue Yang, Weikai Huang, Ziqi Gao, Taira Anderson, Jianrui Zhang, Jitesh Jain, George Stoica, Winston Han, Ali Farhadi, Ranjay Krishna+.

• Synthetic Object Compositions for Scalable and Accurate Learning in Detection, Segmentation, and Grounding
  Weikai Huang, Jieyu Zhang, Taoyang Jia, Chenhao Zheng, Ziqi Gao, Jae Sung Park, Ranjay Krishna+

Peer-reviewed

• Generate Any Scene: Evaluating and Improving Text-to-Vision Generation with Scene Graph Programming
  Ziqi Gao*, Weikai Huang*, Jieyu Zhang, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Ranjay Krishna+
  ICLR 2026

• 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+
  ICCV 2025 Highlight

• 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