👤 About Me

I am a first-year PhD student at the VLAA@UCSC, supervised by Prof. Yuyin Zhou. My primary research interests include computer vision and deep learning, mainly focusing on image and video generation.

🔥 News

  • 2026.06:  🎉🎉 MeDiM is accepted by ECCV 2026!
  • 2026.01:  🎉🎉 AllRestorer is accepted by TPAMI 2026, and Story-Iter is accepted by ICLR 2026!
  • 2025.07:  🎉🎉 MedSegFactory is accepted by ICCV 2025!

📝 Publications

ECCV 2026
paper

Discrete Diffusion Models with MLLMs for Unified Medical Multimodal Generation
Jiawei Mao, Yuhan Wang, Lifeng Chen, Can Zhao, Yucheng Tang, Dong Yang, Liangqiong Qu, Daguang Xu, Yuyin Zhou

GitHub Stars Website arXiv

ICLR 2026
paper

Story-Iter: A Training-free Iterative Paradigm for Long Story Visualization
Jiawei Mao*, Xiaoke Huang*, Yunfei Xie, Yuanqi Chang, Mude Hui, Bingjie Xu, Zeyu Zheng, Zirui Wang, Cihang Xie, Yuyin Zhou

GitHub Stars Website arXiv

TPAMI 2026
paper

All-in-One Transformer for Image Restoration Under Adverse Weather Degradations
Jiawei Mao, Yu Yang, Xuesong Yin, Ling Shao, Hao Tang

Paper arXiv

ICCV 2025
paper

MedSegFactory: Text-Guided Generation of Medical Image-Mask Pairs
Jiawei Mao, Yuhan Wang, Yucheng Tang, Daguang Xu, Kang Wang, Yang Yang, Zongwei Zhou, Yuyin Zhou

GitHub Stars Website arXiv

📖 Educations

  • 2025.09 - now, Ph.D, UCSC 🇺🇸, Santa Cruz, USA.

💬 Academic Services

  • Journal Reviewer:
    IEEE TNNLS

  • Conference Reviewer:
    NeurIPS 2026

💻 Internships

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Peking University, China

Research Assistant @ Hao Tang

2025

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UCSC, USA

Research Intern @ VLAA

2024, 2025