About Me

Hi! I am Yuanhao Zou, a first-year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Central Florida, advised by Prof. Chen Chen at the Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV).

I received my Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I was advised by Prof. Zhaozheng Yin on Medical Vision and Language Models. Before that, I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Central South University, working with Prof. Xiangjian He on Medical Image Segmentation.

Research Interests

My research focuses on building efficient and scalable multimodal models that can understand the visual world over time. Specifically, I am interested in:

• Video Understanding — Temporal grounding, long-form video reasoning, and frame selection.
• Efficient Vision-Language Models — Designing compact and on-device VLMs that maintain strong perception and reasoning ability under tight compute budgets.
• Video Anomaly Detection — Detecting and localizing anomalous events in real-world surveillance and edge scenarios.

Previously, I also worked extensively on Medical Vision-Language Models (visual question answering, image–text retrieval) and Medical Image Segmentation.

Contact

Feel free to reach out via yuanhaoz@ucf.edu if you would like to chat about research or collaboration.