About

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I am a PhD student (part-time) in Computer Science at University of Birmingham, supervised by Prof. Jianbo Jiao and Prof. Eyal Ofek. Alongside my PhD, I work as a software engineer (part-time) at Allsee Technology.

Previously, I completed MEng ECE @ UIUC and BSc ICS @ UoL & XJTLU. Pre-PhD entrance, I was lucky to had a RA-ship under supervision of Prof. Yunchao Wei. Earlier than that, during my undergraduate studies, I was supervised by Dr. Erick Purwanto and Prof. Jie Zhang on some research projects.

Education

1. 2026.01 — Present

   PhD in Computer Science

   University of Birmingham
2. 2023.08 — 2024.12

   MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering

   University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
3. 2019.09 — 2023.07

   BSc (Hons) in Information and Computing Science

   University of Liverpool & XJTLU

Recent Publications

ECCV 2026PeCA: Palette Context Assisted Inference for Test-Time Paint-Bucket Colourisation on Animation VideosDongheng Lin, Jianbo Jiao

NeurIPS 2025A Unified Reasoning Framework for Holistic Zero-Shot Video Anomaly AnalysisDongheng Lin, Mengxue Qu, Kunyang Han, Jianbo Jiao, Xiaojie Jin, Yunchao Wei^†

TMLR 2025What Time Tells Us? An Explorative Study of Time Awareness Learned from Static ImagesDongheng Lin^*, Han Hu^*, Jianbo Jiao^†

Awards

• EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award: University Scholarship for PhD Study.

• NeurIPS 2025 Scholar Award: Financial assistance to present at NeurIPS.

• 2022‑2023 XJTLU University Academic Excellence Award: 10k RMB scholarship for undergrad.

Services

• Research Internship: IDAI
• Invited Reviewer: CVPR, BMVC, IJCNN, NeurIPS.
• Software Engineer: Allsee Technologies Ltd.

Miscellaneous

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

My Erdős number is 4, calculated via:

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

Friends: Yiming Huang, Youheng Zhu, Jiawei (Kyle) Zhang, Zhiyuan Ma.