👀 About Me
I am Kairui Zhang (张凯瑞), a jointly supervised M.S. student admitted in 2025 at ShanghaiTech University (SIST) and the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. I am advised by Prof. Changsheng Xu.
My research interests lie in video understanding and multimodal large language models, with a current focus on streaming video understanding and world models. Previously, I received my Bachelor’s degree from Shanghai University in 2025.
Please feel free to contact me by email if you are interested in research collaboration or related academic discussions.
📚 Survey and Awesome List
I contribute to the maintenance of Awesome-Streaming-Video-Understanding, a curated and continuously updated list of papers, models, datasets, and resources for streaming video understanding. We also wrote a survey, Towards Online Interactors: A Comprehensive Survey on Streaming Video Understanding, which provides a comprehensive review of recent progress in this area. Feel free to check them out, and give us a ⭐ if you find them useful!
🔥 News
- 2026.02: 🎉 Our paper “QueryStream: Advancing Streaming Video Understanding with Query-Aware Pruning and Proactive Response” has been accepted to ICLR 2026.
- 2025.09: 🎉 Our paper “LiveStar: Live Streaming Assistant for Real-World Online Video Understanding” has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
📝 Publications
🔥 [ICLR’2026] Poster
QueryStream: Advancing Streaming Video Understanding with Query-Aware Pruning and Proactive Response
Kairui Zhang, Zhenyu Yang, Bing Wang, Shengsheng Qian, Changsheng Xu
🔥 [NeurIPS’2025] Poster
LiveStar: Live Streaming Assistant for Real-World Online Video Understanding
Zhenyu Yang, Kairui Zhang, Yuhang Hu, Bing Wang, Shengsheng Qian, Bin Wen, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao, Weiming Dong, Changsheng Xu
🏆 Honors and Awards
- 2025: Outstanding Graduate, Shanghai University.
- 2024: First Prize, Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition.
- 2024: Meritorious Winner, Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling.
🎓 Education
- 2025.09 - Present, Jointly supervised M.S. student, School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- 2021.09 - 2025.06, Bachelor’s degree, School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University.
🎮 Hobbies
- Outside of research, I enjoy relaxing with video games 🎮 and practicing close-up magic, especially card magic 🃏.