Education

Southern University of Science and Technology
Undergraduate (2022/08 – 2026/06)

University of California, San Diego
Summer Session (2024/07 – 2024/08)

Experience

Research Collaboration — Visual Memory & Generative Models (2024/08 – ongoing)

Research Assistant — Visual Perceptions & Generative Model (2025/02 – ongoing)

Supervisor: Professor Martin Hebart, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

IJCNN 2025 (Oral)
Uncovering the EEG Temporal Representation of Low-dimensional Object Properties
Jiahua Tang, Song Wang, Jiachen Zou, Chen Wei, Quanying Liu

VSS 2025 (Poster)
Using AI-generated real-world objects to uncover the structure of visual memory
Jiachen Zou, Chen Wei, Quanying Liu, Maria Robinson

CogSci 2025 (Poster)
Dimensions of Vulnerability in Visual Working Memory: An AI-Driven Approach to Perceptual Comparison
Yuang Cao¹, Jiachen Zou¹, Chen Wei, Quanying Liu

ICML 2025 (Poster)
Synthesizing Images on Perceptual Boundaries of ANNs for Uncovering and Manipulating Human Perceptual Variability
Chen Wei¹, Chi Zhang¹, Jiachen Zou, Haotian Deng, Dietmar Heinke, Quanying Liu

HBAI 2024 (Oral)
CoCoG-2: Controllable generation of visual stimuli for understanding human concept representation
Chen Wei¹, Jiachen Zou¹, Dietmar Heinke, Quanying Liu

NeurIPS 2024 (Poster)
Visual Decoding and Reconstruction via EEG Embeddings with Guided Diffusion
Dongyang Li¹, Chen Wei¹, Shiying Li, Jiachen Zou, Quanying Liu

IJCAI 2024 (Oral)
CoCoG: Controllable Visual Stimuli Generation based on Human Concept Representations
Chen Wei¹, Jiachen Zou¹, Dietmar Heinke, Quanying Liu

¹ Co-first authors

2023/06 — National English Competition of College Students (NECCS) — Second Prize
2023/09 — Scholarship for Outstanding Students of Zhixin College, SUSTech
2023/10 — Outstanding Student Scholarships (2022-2023) — First Prize
2023/10 — “Futu Rui” Scholarship of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, SUSTech
2023/11 — Best Poster Award of Department of Biomedical Engineering, SUSTech
2024/06 — The 3rd Guangdong University Student Biomedical Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship Design Competition — First Prize
2024/08 — Guangdong Province “Climbing Plan” Fund Project — Project Leader
2024/11 — Outstanding Student Scholarships (2023-2024) — First Prize