Junyu Chen

Bio

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Rochester (UR), where I am advised by Prof. Christopher Kanan. Previously, I completed my master's in Data Science at UR and bachelor's at Peking University.
My current research focuses on computer vision and machine learning, particularly self-supervised and continual learning for discovering semantic structure in large-scale visual data.

Publications

Unlocking ImageNet's Multi-Object Nature: Automated Large-Scale Multilabel Annotation

Junyu Chen, Md Yousuf Harun, Christopher Kanan

CVPR Findings, 2026.

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Learning to evaluate the artness of AI-generated images

Junyu Chen, Jie An, Hanjia Lyu, Christopher Kanan, Jiebo Luo

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2024.

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Holistic visual-textual sentiment analysis with prior models

Junyu Chen, Jie An, Hanjia Lyu, Christopher Kanan, Jiebo Luo

MIPR, 2024.

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INSIGHT: Explainable Weakly-Supervised Medical Image Analysis

Wenbo Zhang, Junyu Chen, Christopher Kanan

MLHC, 2025.

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Grasp: A rehearsal policy for efficient online continual learning

Md Yousuf Harun, Jhair Gallardo, Junyu Chen, Christopher Kanan

CoLLAs, 2024.

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Revisiting Multi-Modal LLM Evaluation

Jian Lu, Shikhar Srivastava, Junyu Chen, Robik Shrestha, Manoj Acharya, Kushal Kafle, Christopher Kanan

CVPR Workshop, 2024.

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Predicting Adverse Neonatal Outcomes for Preterm Neonates with Multi-Task Learning

Jingyang Lin, Junyu Chen, Hanjia Lyu, Igor Khodak, Divya Chhabra, Colby L Day Richardson, Irina Prelipcean, Andrew M Dylag, Jiebo Luo

ICDH, 2023.

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Automated Detection and Quantitative Assessment of Dental Plaque in Intraoral Images

Ziyun Zeng, Junyu Chen, Noha Rashwan, Nisreen Al Jallad, Jin Xiao, Jiebo Luo

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, 2026.

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Education

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY, US  |  Aug. 2023 - Present

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

Advisor: Christopher Kanan

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY, US  |  Aug. 2021 - Dec. 2022

M.S. in Data Science

Advisor: Jiebo Luo

Peking University

Beijing, China  |  Aug. 2016 - Jun. 2020

B.S. in Psychology; B.A. in Economics

Experiences

Kuaishou Technology

Beijing, China  |  Sept. 2020 - Apr. 2021

Data Analyst Intern

DiDi Infinity Technology

Beijing, China  |  Nov. 2019 - Apr. 2020

Data Analyst Intern

Xiaomi Communications

Beijing, China  |  Mar. 2018 - Mar. 2019

Product Manager Intern