🏄‍♀️ About Me

• I am a software engineer at Allsee Technology, with part-time Research Assistantship at University of Birmingham under the supervision of Prof. Jianbo Jiao.
• I am also fortunate to be collaborating with Prof. Yunchao Wei on current research projects.
• Previously, I was an MEng ECE@UIUC and a BSc ICS @UoL&XJTLU.
• During my undergraduate studies, I had the privilege of being supervised by Dr. Erick Purwanto and Prof. Jie Zhang.

力強い竹の下には、さらに力強い根が張り巡らされている。
Beneath the sturdy bamboo, even sturdier roots spread out.
From:『東方永夜抄　～ Imperishable Night.』~ Stage 4

📖 Education

• 2023.08 - 2024.12, MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 2019.09 - 2023.07, BSc (Hons) in Information and Computing Science, University of Liverpool & XJTLU.

📝 Selected Publications

NeurIPS 2025

A Unified Reasoning Framework for Holistic Zero-Shot Video Anomaly Analysis, Dongheng Lin, Mengxue Qu, Kunyang Han, Jianbo Jiao, Xiaojie Jin, Yunchao Wei^†

• A new zero-shot method for structured Video Anomaly Detection/Localisation/Understanding.
• Intra-task Reasoning (IntraTR) improves task-specific performance via extracting priors for anomaly contexts.
• Inter-task Chaining (InterTC) builds Chain-of-Thoughts to unify capabilities on different sub-tasks in Video Anomaly Analysis.

TMLR 2025

What Time Tells Us? An Explorative Study of Time Awareness Learned from Static Images, Dongheng Lin^*, Han Hu^*, Jianbo Jiao^†

• A new paradigm to learn visual cues for timestamps leading to time-aware understanding on random visual inputs.
• Built a new benchmark dataset with 130k samples paired with accurate time/geolocation metadata.
• Tested the learned representations on various downstream tasks (Image Retrieval, Video Scene Recognition and Time-conditioned Image Editing).

🎪 Miscellaneous

• A typical Otaku.

  • My favorite manga chapter: 臨海センチメント (Nostalgic Ocean Landscape).

  • Favorite Light Novel (Single Episode): 『続・終物語』

• I also enjoy photography and music.

• FUJICHROME Velvia 100, taken at my hometown.

👥Social

My Erdős number is 4.

• Dongheng Lin → Jianbo Jiao → Ana I. L. Namburete → Israel Koren → Paul Erdős

A few friends of mine: Youheng Zhu, Jiawei (Kyle) Zhang, Zhiyuan Ma.

🔨Award & Services

• Awards
  • NeurIPS 2025 Scholar Award: Financial Assistance to present at NeurIPS 2025.
• Services
  • Invited Reviewer: BMVC, IJCNN
  • Software Engineer, Allsee Technologies Ltd

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