About

Thanks for stopping by.

I am a software engineer at Allsee Technology, and a part-time research assistant at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Prof. Jianbo Jiao. I am also fortunate to be collaborating with Prof. Yunchao Wei on ongoing research projects.

Previously, I completed MEng ECE @ UIUC and BSc ICS @ UoL & XJTLU. During my undergraduate studies, I was supervised by Dr. Erick Purwanto and Prof. Jie Zhang.

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 AnalysisDongheng Lin, Mengxue Qu, Kunyang Han, Jianbo Jiao, Xiaojie Jin, Yunchao Wei^†

TMLR 2025

What 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.

Services

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

Miscellaneous

Favorite manga chapter: Nostalgic Ocean Landscape.

I also enjoy photography, balcony gardening, and doujin music.

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

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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.