Hello! This is Zhijian “James” Hou (侯智健). I obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Department at City University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo and Prof. Wing-Kwong Chan. Prior to CityU, I obtained my bachelor’s degree from Shandong University in China, with guidance from Prof. Liqiang Nie.

I do research at the intersection of video and language. I am broadly interested in video analysis and synthesis using natural language as the interface. During the graduate study, I delved into the task of temporal sentence grounding in videos, which aims to localize video segments that correspond semantically to natural language queries in untrimmed videos.