PhD Student (Google Scholar)

Erwin Wenhui OU received his B.Eng. degree from Central South University (CSU) in 2021 and his M.Eng. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2024. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at HKUST. His research focuses on edge accelerators for IoT, particularly leveraging hardware–software co-design to bring cloud-level applications efficiently to edge devices. He works across multiple system layers, from model quantization and hardware design to FPGA deployment, and enjoys tackling challenges that span the entire system stack. Outside of research, he enjoys competitive sports such as basketball and badminton.

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Andy Dongjun WU received his B.Eng. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2022 and his M.Sc. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2023. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interests lie in computer vision, with a primary focus on developing efficient and generative models for 3D reconstruction and generation. Specifically, he explores cutting-edge techniques such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and diffusion models to achieve high-fidelity and scalable 3D content generation.

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Wilkins Yijian Wu received his B.Eng. in Computer Science from HKUST in 2022, where he was awarded the CSE Best Final Year Project. He subsequently received M.Sc. degree in Information Technology from HKUST in 2023. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in ECE at HKUST. His areas of interest in computer vision research are centered on open-vocabulary scene understanding to perceive novel objects robustly across real-world domains.

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Thomas Yusen TO received his B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2025. During his undergraduate studies, he was awarded the Jardine Schindler Engineering Scholarship and completed an internship at Schindler, while he obtained the Construction Industry Safety Training Certificate. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in ECE at HKUST. His research focuses on efficient image editing in computer vision, specifically leveraging diffusion models to accelerate single-image editing by exploiting temporal and spatial redundancies. Beyond academics, Thomas is an avid reader with a passion for science fiction, particularly enjoying Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem series and Jiang Nan's Dragon Raja novels.