Yequan Bie
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), supervised by Prof. Hao Chen.
My research focuses on vision-language foundation models, agentic AI, post-training, trustworthy AI, and world models. Before HKUST, I earned my B.Eng. with honors from SCUT and studied as a visiting student at UC Berkeley EECS.
Education
Experience
Recent News
- Sep 2026 One paper accepted by NeurIPS 2026.
- May 2026 Received the HKUST RedBird PhD Award for the third time.
- Jan 2026 One paper accepted by Nature Biomedical Engineering.
- Nov 2025 One paper accepted by AAAI 2026.
- Jul 2025 Received the HKUST RedBird PhD Award for the second time.
- Feb 2025 One paper accepted by CVPR 2025.
- Jun 2024 One paper accepted by MICCAI 2024.
- Dec 2023 One paper accepted by AAAI 2024.
- Aug 2023 Started my Ph.D. at SmartX Lab, HKUST, and received the RedBird PhD Award.
- Jun 2023 Graduated from SCUT and received the Excellent Graduation Thesis Award (Top 3%).
Honors & Awards
- HKUST RedBird PhD Award / Scholarship (three times), 2023, 2025, 2026.
- Excellent Graduation Thesis Award at SCUT (Top 3%) & 披星戴月奖, 2023.
- Top Ten Merit Students Candidate of SCUT (Top 1%), 2022.
- Merit Student of SCUT (Top 5%), 2021 and 2022.
- UC Berkeley Extension SAF Merit Scholarship, 2022.
- China National Scholarship (Top 0.2%), 2021.
- First-class MEAN WELL Scholarship (Top 1%, twice), 2021 and 2022.
- First-class Hongping Evergreen Fund Scholarship (twice), 2021 and 2022.