Ziqi Wen

Biography

Before attending UCSB, Ziqi earned his master's degree Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS) from the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) in the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), advised by Prof.Tai Sing Lee. Before attending CMU, he received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in China, supervised by Prof.Zhaopeng Cui. He also minored in psychology during his undergraduate studies. He joined the VIU lab in 2024.

Research

Ziqi's research interests lie in the interdisciplinary field of computer vision and cognitive psychology. Specifically, does the model behave similarly or differently compared with humans across different visual cognitive tasks? And what causes the similarities or differences? Shape bias of human vision and texture bias of traditional CNN models are typical examples. Understanding why the similarities or differences exist would be crucial to understanding human and computer vision.