Kevin (Qi) Zhao

About Me

Hi there, I am Kevin. Currently, I am an AI researcher at ByteDance Seed focusing on video generation, and unified visual understanding and generation. I worked with Dr. Lu Jiang in video generation projects such as Seaweed, SeeDance, and Bagel2. I currently work with Dr. Yi Jiang on SeeDance2.0 Pro, focusing on long video generation and Haoqi Fan on SeeWorld, interactive world model.

Previously, I obtained my Master of Science degree at Brown University, where I was fortunate to collaborate closely with professor Chen Sun and his group on video understanding. I have also worked with professor George Konidaris and his PhD student Haotian Fu on embodied agents. I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree at NYU.

I grew up in Shanghai until I went to high school in Scottsdale, AZ.

Selected Publications

Synthetic Video Enhances Physical Fidelity in Video Synthesis

Qi Zhao, Xingyu Ni, Ziyu Wang, Feng Cheng, Ziyan Yang, Lu Jiang*, Bohan Wang*

ICCV 2025

arXiv Website HuggingFace

SeeDance: Conditional Human Image Animation with Discrete Motion Representations

Team SeeDance, Qi Zhao, et al.

Technical Report

Website

Seaweed-7B: Cost-Effective Training of Video Generation Foundation Model

Team Seaweed, Qi Zhao, et al.

Technical Report

Website Paper

EPO: Hierarchical LLM Agents with Environment Preference Optimization

Qi Zhao*, Haotian Fu*, Chen Sun, George Konidaris

EMNLP 2024 Main

arXiv Code

Vamos: Versatile Action Models for Video Understanding

Shijie Wang, Qi Zhao, Minh Do, Nakul Agarwal, Kwonjoon Lee, Chen Sun

ECCV 2024

Website arXiv Code

AntGPT: Can Large Language Model Help Long-term Action Anticipation from Videos?

Qi Zhao*, Shijie Wang*, Ce Zhang, Changcheng Fu, Minh Do, Nakul Agarwal, Kwonjoon Lee, Chen Sun

ICLR 2024

Website arXiv Video Code