Qunliang Xing

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Qunliang Xing is a researcher in multimodal LLMs at ByteDance MMLab, focusing on visual enhancement agents.

He received his Ph.D. in 2025 and B.Eng. in 2019 from Beihang University and completed the honors programs at both levels.

His research has appeared in venues including IEEE TPAMI and CVPR, with several ESI Highly Cited Papers. He has won two NTIRE championships, and his open-source projects have earned over 800 GitHub stars. He also serves as a reviewer for CVPR, IEEE TIP, and other venues.

Outside research, he enjoys soccer. He placed second in the Beihang 100m final and helped his college soccer team win two top-tier campus championships.

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Work Experience
  • Full-time Position
  • Reviewer (Year of First Review)
    • IEEE TIP (2021), IEEE TMM (2021), IEEE TCSVT (2022), IEEE/CAA JAS (2022), ACM CSUR (2025)
    • ICME (2021), CVPR (2024), AAAI (2025), ICCV (2025), ECCV (2026), NeurIPS (2026), ARR (2026)
  • Research Intern
    • Video Quality Enhancement @ Tao Technology, Alibaba Group (2021.12–2023.12)
      🏆 Winner of the CVPR NTIRE challenge
    • Tencent Rhino-bird Open-source Training Program @ Tencent (2021.7–2021.9)
      Selected as one of the 127 participants from over 1,800 applicants
    • Video Quality Enhancement for HW.265 Codec @ 2012 Lab, Huawei (2018.12–2019.12)
  • Teaching and Mentoring
    • Mentor of Undergraduates @ Shen-Yuan Honors College, Beihang University (2020.10–2021.10)
      Selected as an excellent mentor (Top 25%)
    • Teaching Assistant for “Introduction to Machine Learning” @ Beihang University (2020.9–2021.1)
Education
  • Ph.D. in Engineering (2019.9–2025.6)
    Advisor: Changjiang Distinguished Professor Mai Xu; Students co-mentored: Jing Yang
    School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University
    Completed the Ph.D. honors program at Shen-Yuan Honors College
  • B.Eng. (2015.9–2019.6)
    School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University
    Completed the undergraduate honors program at Shen-Yuan Honors College
  • High School (2012.9–2015.6)
    Shenzhen Nanshan Foreign Language School
    Admitted to Beihang University with the highest entrance score among Beihang admits from Guangdong Province, China
Selected Publications
Visual Enhancement Agents
Efficient Visual Enhancement
Visual Compression and Enhancement
Intellectual Property
Honors and Awards
  • Beihang Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2026
    Sole awardee in the first-level discipline of Information and Communication Engineering
  • Outstanding Graduate of Beijing, 2025
    Ranked top 5% among all graduates; one of only two recipients selected from the EIE School
  • Beihang Shen-Yuan Medal, 2024
    🏆 Highest student award at Beihang University; Awarded annually to 10 Ph.D. students
  • China National Scholarship, 2023
  • Beihang Academic Excellence Fund for Ph.D. Candidates, 2023
    Ranked 1st out of 96 in the EIE School
    Completed in 2024
  • Scientific Research Role Model, Shen-Yuan Honors College, Beihang University, 2023
    Ranked 1st out of 33 in the college
  • Glarun Scholarship by the 14th Research Institute, CETC, 2022
    Among four awardees from 96 students in the EIE School
  • Beihang Excellent Graduate, 2019
    Top 20% in the university
  • Beihang Outstanding/Merit Student, 2015/2018/2021/2022
    Top 5% in the university
  • Shenzhen Merit Student, 2014
    🏆 Sole awardee in the high school
  • Winner of the CVPR NTIRE challenge on Super-Resolution and Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video, 2022
  • OpenMMLab Active Contributor, 2022
  • Beihang Soccer Super Cup champion (as the starting center-back), 2023
  • Runner-up in the 100m final at the Beihang Sports Day, 2022
  • Soccer Championship at the Beihang Sports Festival (as the starting center-back), 2017

Last updated: September 17, 2026

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