Simon Fraser University

ZeMing Gong

I am a PhD student in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, supervised by Angel Xuan Chang. I am part of the 3D Language and Generation (3DLG) group and GrUVi.

My research focuses on multimodal learning for biodiversity.

I completed my MSc and undergraduate studies in Computing Science at SFU.

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Research

I study representations that connect insect images with DNA barcodes. My work includes contrastive learning across these modalities and hyperbolic representations of biological taxonomies.

Publications

2026

BarcodeBERT: transformers for biodiversity analyses

Pablo Millan Arias, Niousha Sadjadi, Monireh Safari, ZeMing Gong, Austin T. Wang, Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Iuliia Zarubiieva, Dirk Steinke, Lila Kari, Angel X. Chang, Scott C. Lowe, Graham W. Taylor

Bioinformatics Advances, 6(1):vbag054, 2026

Paper Code Earlier version
2025

Hyperbolic Multimodal Representation Learning for Biological Taxonomies

ZeMing Gong, Chuanqi Tang, Xiaoliang Huo, Nicholas Pellegrino, Austin T. Wang, Graham W. Taylor, Angel X. Chang, Scott C. Lowe, Joakim Bruslund Haurum

Beyond Euclidean Workshop at ICCV 2025; Imageomics and FM4LS workshops at NeurIPS 2025

Paper
2025

ViGiL3D: A Linguistically Diverse Dataset for 3D Visual Grounding

Austin T. Wang, ZeMing Gong, Angel X. Chang

ACL 2025

Paper Code Project
2025

CLIBD: Bridging Vision and Genomics for Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale

ZeMing Gong, Austin T. Wang, Xiaoliang Huo, Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Scott C. Lowe, Graham W. Taylor, Angel X. Chang

ICLR 2025

Paper Code Project
2024

BIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity

Zahra Gharaee^*, Scott C. Lowe^*, ZeMing Gong^*, Pablo Millan Arias^*, Nicholas Pellegrino, Austin T. Wang, Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Iuliia Zarubiieva, Lila Kari, Dirk Steinke, Graham W. Taylor, Paul Fieguth, Angel X. Chang

NeurIPS 2024, Datasets and Benchmarks Track

Paper Code Dataset
2023

Multi3DRefer: Grounding Text Description to Multiple 3D Objects

Yiming Zhang, ZeMing Gong, Angel X. Chang

ICCV 2023

Paper Code Project
2023

A Step Towards Worldwide Biodiversity Assessment: The BIOSCAN-1M Insect Dataset

Zahra Gharaee^*, ZeMing Gong^*, Nicholas Pellegrino^*, Iuliia Zarubiieva, Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Scott C. Lowe, Jaclyn T.A. McKeown, Chris C.Y. Ho, Joschka McLeod, Yi-Yun C Wei, Jireh Agda, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Dirk Steinke, Angel X. Chang, Graham W. Taylor, Paul Fieguth

NeurIPS 2023, Datasets and Benchmarks Track

Paper Code Dataset

^* Equal contribution.

Contact

zmgong@sfu.ca

School of Computing Science · Simon Fraser University

GitHub · 3D Language and Generation (3DLG) group

Research

Publications

BarcodeBERT: transformers for biodiversity analyses

Hyperbolic Multimodal Representation Learning for Biological Taxonomies

ViGiL3D: A Linguistically Diverse Dataset for 3D Visual Grounding

CLIBD: Bridging Vision and Genomics for Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale

BIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity

Multi3DRefer: Grounding Text Description to Multiple 3D Objects

A Step Towards Worldwide Biodiversity Assessment: The BIOSCAN-1M Insect Dataset

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