PhD Student IPNL 2025-present
currentLiang Qian is a PhD student in the Intelligent Positioning and Navigation Laboratory at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Shaanxi Normal University and his master’s degree in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on trustworthy learning-based positioning and navigation, particularly differentiable factor-graph optimization, urban GNSS, and credible uncertainty estimation—building navigation systems that know when they might be wrong.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 2022-2024. Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, 2018-2022.
Research interests: Trustworthy positioning and navigation; urban GNSS; differentiable factor-graph optimization; deep learning; credible uncertainty estimation.