Hi there! I am a master's student in Data Science and Information Technology at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yuxing Han. My current research centers on video perception, video understanding, generative modeling, and efficiency.

I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2023. In 2023/01-2023/08, I was a Research Intern at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), advised by Prof. Ziyu Jia, working on multimodal physiological time-series modeling. In 2025/10-2026/08, I was collaborating with Prof. Kyriakos Flouris at the University of Cambridge on human motion generative modeling

I am always open to research discussions and collaborations. Feel free to get in touch!

Research News

[06/2026] Graduate from Tsinghua University.
[04/2026] Our paper "Leveraging Motion Estimation for Efficient Bayer-Domain Computer Vision" was accepted by ICIP 2026.
[09/2024] Our paper "DistillSleepNet: Heterogeneous Multi-Level Knowledge Distillation via Teacher Assistant for Sleep Staging" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Big Data.
[08/2024] Our paper "Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Enhanced Unimodal Emotion Recognition" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
[05/2024] Our paper "Mutual Distillation Extracting Spatial-Temporal Knowledge for Lightweight Multi-Channel Sleep Stage Classification" was accepted by ACM SIGKDD 2024.
[09/2023] Start my study in Tsinghua University.
[08/2023] Attended IJCAI 2023 in Macau.
[07/2023] Our paper "EmotionKD: A Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation Framework for Emotion Recognition Based on Physiological Signals" was accepted by ACM MM 2023.
[04/2023] Our paper "Teacher Assistant-Based Knowledge Distillation Extracting Multi-Level Features on Single Channel Sleep EEG" was accepted by IJCAI 2023.

Publications

Diffusion Path Alignment for Long-Range Motion Generation and Domain Transitions
Diffusion Path Alignment for Long-Range Motion Generation and Domain Transitions
Haichao Wang, Alexander Okupnik, Gene Wen, Yuxing Han, Johannes Schneider, Kyriakos Flouris
arXiv, 2026.
MotionVision: Lightweight Parallel Motion Estimation and Perceptual Residual Correction for Efficient Dense Video Perception
MotionVision: Lightweight Parallel Motion Estimation and Perceptual Residual Correction for Efficient Dense Video Perception
Haichao Wang, Jiangtao Wen, Yuxing Han
Arxiv, 2026.
Leveraging Motion Estimation for Efficient Bayer-Domain Computer Vision
Leveraging Motion Estimation for Efficient Bayer-Domain Computer Vision
Haichao Wang, Jiangtao Wen, Yuxing Han
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2026. [paper]
Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Enhanced Unimodal Emotion Recognition
Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Enhanced Unimodal Emotion Recognition
Ziyu Jia, Heng Liang, Haichao Wang, Yucheng Liu, Tianzi Jiang
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2025. [paper]
Mutual Distillation Extracting Spatial-Temporal Knowledge for Lightweight Multi-Channel Sleep Stage Classification
Mutual Distillation Extracting Spatial-Temporal Knowledge for Lightweight Multi-Channel Sleep Stage Classification
Ziyu Jia, Haichao Wang (first student author), Yucheng Liu, Tianzi Jiang
ACM SIGKDD, 2024. [paper]
DistillSleepNet: Heterogeneous Multi-Level Knowledge Distillation via Teacher Assistant for Sleep Staging
DistillSleepNet: Heterogeneous Multi-Level Knowledge Distillation via Teacher Assistant for Sleep Staging
Ziyu Jia, Heng Liang, Yucheng Liu, Haichao Wang, Tianzi Jiang
IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2024. [paper]
EmotionKD: A Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation Framework for Emotion Recognition Based on Physiological Signals
EmotionKD: A Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation Framework for Emotion Recognition Based on Physiological Signals
Yucheng Liu, Ziyu Jia, Haichao Wang
ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2023. [paper]
Teacher Assistant-Based Knowledge Distillation Extracting Multi-Level Features on Single Channel Sleep EEG
Teacher Assistant-Based Knowledge Distillation Extracting Multi-Level Features on Single Channel Sleep EEG
Heng Liang, Yucheng Liu, Haichao Wang (equal contribution), Ziyu Jia
IJCAI, 2023. [paper]

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