Zhihao Li | 李智皓

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
University of Western Ontario

London, Ontario, Canada

zli3446@uwo.ca|zhihao.lics@gmail.com

Zhihao Li

About Me

Hi! I’m Zhihao, a Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning group at the University of Western Ontario. I’m fortunate to be co-supervised by Prof. Boyu Wang and Prof. Charles Ling. My research focuses on Unlearnable Examples, Data Privacy, and Trustworthy AI.

Before beginning my Ph.D., I earned my Master’s degree from Tianjin University in 2024, where I focused my research on Cross-Modal Retrieval and Multi-modal Learning under the guidance of Prof. Zhong Ji. Prior to this, I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from Shandong University in 2021.

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Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

NeurIPS
NeurIPS Paper
Versatile Transferable Unlearnable Example Generator
Zhihao Li*, Jiale Cai*, Gezheng Xu, Hao Zheng, Qiuyue Li, Fan Zhou, Shichun Yang, Charles Ling, Boyu Wang
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025 (Conference)
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IEEE TMM
TMM Paper
Visual Semantic Contextualization Network for Multi-Query Image Retrieval
Zhong Ji*, Zhihao Li*, Yan Zhang, Yanwei Pang, Xuelong Li
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025 (Journal)
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Neural Networks
NN Paper
Hierarchical Matching and Reasoning for Multi-Query Image Retrieval
Zhong Ji, Zhihao Li, Yan Zhang, Haoran Wang, Yanwei Pang, Xuelong Li
Neural Networks, 2024 (Journal)
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Preprints

Preprint
Eagle Paper
EAGLE: Elevating Geometric Reasoning through LLM-empowered Visual Instruction Tuning
Zhihao Li, Yao Du, Yang Liu, Yan Zhang, Yufang Liu, Mengdi Zhang, Xunliang Cai
arXiv Preprint, 2024 (Preprint)
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Internship Experience

Meituan Apr. 2024 - Aug. 2024
Research Intern – Large Language Models Beijing, China
Topic: Geometric Reasoning in Multi-modal Large Language Models.
Objective: Improving MLLMs’ geometric reasoning abilities through visual-perceptual understanding.

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