Heng Zhang

Senior Algorithm Expert at Xiaomi

Heng Zhang is currently a Senior Algorithm Expert at Xiaomi Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in Computational Biochemistry from Imperial College London in 2018. He has published over 10 first-author or co-authored papers in top-tier international journals and conferences such as CVPR and ICCV, and holds more than 15 patents. His research interests span multimodal large language models, low-power super-resolution, low-level vision enhancement, and next-generation image signal processing systems. From 2023 to 2024, he led his team to win a total of five championships in CVPR competitions over two consecutive years. He excels at translating academic research into mature algorithmic products, and has played a key role in successfully deploying Xiaomi’s vision algorithms on chip platforms. He has been recognized as a Marie Curie Research Fellow by the European Commission and a Global Scholar jointly supported by MIT and Imperial College London. He was selected as a Shenzhen High-Level Overseas Talent and, since 2024, has served as a Chair Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics).