Huang Tiejun is chairman of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence and a professor at Peking University. His research connects visual information processing and neuromorphic computing, including the SpikeCV framework.[1][2][3][5]
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Education
PhD in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems
Completed 1998
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Peking UniversityChairman of the Board · BAAI
Professor · Peking University
Career
Huang earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Wuhan University of Technology and a doctorate in pattern recognition and intelligent systems at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Peking University identifies him as a professor and vice dean of its Institute for Artificial Intelligence. BAAI’s 2026 conference release identifies him as chairman of its board.[1][5]
Contributions
A toolkit for continuous visual signals
SpikeCV provides data, algorithms and hardware interfaces for spike-camera vision. These sensors accumulate light intensity and emit asynchronous spikes rather than periodic image frames, creating a need for different reconstruction and analysis tools. Huang is a paper coauthor and is credited by the project as its initiator and the spike-camera inventor. The framework is a team effort supporting experiments with that representation.[2][3]
One sequence for several media
Huang coauthored Emu3, which tokenizes text, images and video into discrete representations and trains a transformer to predict the next token. This brings generation and perception into one sequence-modeling formulation. The paper compares the resulting models with task-specific systems and releases techniques and models for further study. It presents a training approach for multimodal capabilities, with performance tested on the reported tasks.[4]
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An open-source framework connecting spike-camera data, algorithms and hardware.
Read the framework overview to see how spike-camera data differs from ordinary video. Basic computer-vision knowledge helps; running experiments requires the project’s data and software.
A multimodal training approach using discrete sequences and next-token prediction.
Coauthor[4]