I am an undergraduate student at Nankai University with a strong passion for computer vision and machine learning. I have gained research experience as a Research Intern at the VCIP Lab at Nankai University, where I work with Professor Ming-Ming Cheng and Associate Professor Qibin Hou, and at NTU.
I am also a member of 
OpenEnvision, where I am happy to work with Juanxi Tian. OpenEnvision is a joint research hub advancing open vision intelligence through academia-industry collaboration. We work closely with academic partners such as 
UC San Diego, 
UIUC, 
Princeton, 
NTU, and 
MMLab, as well as industry collaborators including 
Nvidia, 
Adobe, 
Meta, and 
ByteDance Seed. We continue to expand our impact through open-source projects and knowledge sharing.
Outside of research, I like rap music. My favorite Chinese rapper is Asen, and my favorite foreign rappers are J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar.
Latest News
- Released WorldAtlas, a unified large-scale benchmark for world generation toward world intelligence.
- Video World Models with AR Diffusion, coming soon.
- Invited by Professor Hao Zhao of Tsinghua University to give a talk on OpenEnvision and WorldFoundry.
- Released WorldFoundry, OpenEnvision’s open-source infrastructure for world-model inference and evaluation.
- Launched BlogrXiv, a curated index of technical AI research blogs.
- Released Awesome-World-Modeling, a paper-first reading list of generative, representational, and agentic world models.
- Released NK-YOLO, a Jittor object-detection codebase built with the NK-JittorCV team.
Experience
- Member at OpenEnvision, working with Juanxi Tian
- Research Intern at Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
- Research Intern at Visual Computing and Image Processing (VCIP) Lab, Nankai University, working with Professor Ming-Ming Cheng and Associate Professor Qibin Hou
Education
- B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, Nankai University (4/174)
Awards
- Wang Kechang Scholarship of Academic Excellence, 2026
- National Scholarship of China, 2025
Contact
The best way to reach me is via email at jiadonghou3@gmail.com. You can also find me on GitHub, X, Zhihu, and Xiaohongshu. My WeChat is iChubai_qwq.
Acknowledgments
With admiration for Sander Dieleman, a researcher and blogger I love reading. His writing on generative models is work I keep coming back to. This website is built from the template of his site — thank you for sharing both the work and the design.
Thanks to my mom, my grandma, and my family, and to all my Day 1 Brothers.