Personal Update:
"Do right things and do things right."
About Me
👋 Hi! I am Wei Chen, a Ph.D. Student at HKUST-GZ (Since 2023.09) and HKUST (Since 2025.08). My supervisors are Professor Yuxuan Liang and Professor Xiaofang Zhou.
🔠Reasech Topic:
My long-term research interests:
- Intelligence (knowledge/ability) boundaries of Foundation Models
- How to expand its adaptability to the open world
(Multi-sensory, Autonomous, Organizational, Lifelong, Human-friendly)
- Principled scaling everything in LLM
- Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Multi-Modality
Causality, Spatial / Temporal Intelligence
🌱 Industrial Research Journey:
Ant Group, Machine Intelligence Group, 2025.07-present
Research Topic: Large Reasoning Model (Memory / Reasoning in VLM), especially in financial field.
Huawei, 2012 Lab, 2024.10-2025.06
Research Topic: Foundation Model in Spatio-Temporal Data Science Domain.
Research Output: Deployed System / ICLR' 2025 / NeurIPS' 2025.
Microsoft Research Asia, 2022.10-2024.06
Research Topic: Test-Time Compute / Causal Discovery / LLM-powerd Excel Copilot.
Research Output: Research Paper / AutoInsight Product / Causal Learning Toolkit.
iFLYTEK Research Institute, 2022.05-2022.09
Research Topic: Pre-Trained Language Model / Machine Translation.
Research Output: Deployed Multilingual MT Systems / Return offer (top 5%).
Selected News
(For the full list of news please check the News tab.)
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Sep. 2025: One paper was accepted to NeurIPS'25.
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Jul. 2025: I was invited and accepted to serve as the Senior Area Chair for KDD'26.
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May. 2025: I have once again been selected as a "Outstanding Reviewer" for KDD'25.
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May. 2025: One paper was accepted to KDD'25.
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Jan. 2025: I was invited as a regular reviewer for TMLR.
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Jan. 2025: One paper was accepted to ICLR'25.
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Jan. 2025: One paper was accepted to WWW'25.
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