The PolyU COMP – HIT (SZ) CST Research Student Conference was successfully held from 7 to 8 July 2026, on the campus of The Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HIT(SZ)). The event united approximately 450 research students and faculty members from both universities, fostering a dynamic platform for academic exchange, research presentations, and cross-institutional collaboration.
The conference commenced with an inspiring welcome speech by Prof. Bing LI, Vice President of HIT(SZ), who expressed his enthusiasm at seeing hundreds of research students from PolyU and HIT(SZ) gathered together. He encouraged attendees to seize this opportunity to forge new friendships and professional connections. This was followed by opening speeches from Prof. Xutao LI, Vice Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology, HIT(SZ), and Prof. Qing LI, Head of COMP, PolyU. Both emphasised their shared commitment to nurturing the next generation of researchers and driving joint innovation in computer science and technology.
A major highlight of the first day was the keynote address delivered by Prof. Yi PAN, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Control Engineering at the Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. Speaking on the topic "The Current Development and Future Breakthrough Directions of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Large Models*", Prof. Pan provided profound insights into the evolving landscape of AGI, sparking stimulating discussions on the future of AI-driven research.
Remarks from the Technical Program Committee (TPC) were presented by Prof. Lei YANG, Associate Professor of COMP, who provided an overview of the conference’s program. The conference showcased the incredible depth and breadth of research being undertaken by students from both universities. The TPC selected 80 papers for oral presentation, alongside 100 posters and 11 demos.
The oral presentations were organised into eight specialised sessions, spanning a wide array of cutting-edge research domains:
- Theory, Optimisation, and Software Engineering
- Vision, Graphics, and Human-Computer Interaction
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- AI for Science
- Embodied Intelligence and Autonomous Systems
- Cyber Security and Privacy
- Networking and Mobile Computing
- Data Science and Machine Learning
The conference concluded with a Conference Banquet and Award Presentation on the second day. To recognise outstanding research contributions and practical innovations, the conference presented awards in three categories:
- Best Oral Presentation Awards: Conferred upon nine exceptional students, selected by expert panels composed of faculty members from COMP and HIT(SZ).
- Best Poster Awards: Awarded to ten students based on a popular vote by all conference participants, highlighting the engaging and impactful nature of their poster presentations.
- Best Demo Awards: Conferred upon two students for their outstanding system/prototype demonstrations, selected by the expert panels.
(Awardee list in alphabetical order of surnames.)
Best Oral Presentation Award
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University |
Awardees |
Paper Title |
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PolyU |
CHEN Rubing |
To Retrieve or To Think? An Agentic Approach for Context Evolution |
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SHEN Jinhao |
From Competition to Coopetition: Coopetitive Training-Free Image Editing Based on Text Guidance |
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YOU Runyang |
Parallel Test-Time Scaling for Latent Reasoning Models |
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ZHANG Fengrui |
Deep-Soil Acoustic Backscatter Networking for Electrical Substation Grounding Assessment |
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ZHANG Wengyu |
GraphATC: advancing multilevel and multi-label anatomical therapeutic chemical classification via atom-level graph learning |
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ZHOU Siyuan |
PhysInOne: Visual Physics Learning and Reasoning in One Suite |
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HIT(SZ) |
HE Wen-Jue |
Dual-correlation-guided anchor learning for scalable incomplete multi-view clustering |
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XIANG Qianlong |
TINA: Text-Free Inversion Attack for Unlearned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models |
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ZHANG Haoyu |
Spatial Understanding from Videos: Structured Prompts Meet Simulation Data |
Best Poster Presentation Award
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University |
Awardees |
Paper Title |
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PolyU |
CHEN Weijie |
ρHammer: Reviving RowHammer Attacks on New Architectures via Prefetching |
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LIU Junyang |
Things-Augmented Generation: Grounding LLMs in the Physical World via Distributed IoT Retrieval |
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XIE Bin |
Flexible and Privacy-Preserving Access Control Framework for Decentralized Identity Systems |
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YAO Siyue |
Threshold CRYSTALS-Dilithium from Secure MPC |
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ZHANG Guowen |
BEVDilation: LiDAR-Centric Multi-Modal Fusion for 3D Object Detection |
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HIT(SZ) |
JIANG Jiarui |
Trained Mamba Emulates Online Gradient Descent in In-Context Linear Regression |
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LIANG Guotao |
Improved Masked Image Generation with Knowledge-Augmented Token Representations |
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LIU Jizhihui |
HiPrune: Hierarchical Attention for Efficient Token Pruning in Vision-Language Models |
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LYU Linye |
Towards Effective and Transferable Physical Camouflage against Multi-View BEV-based 3D Perception in Autonomous Driving |
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ZHANG Xinyu |
From Tokenizer Bias to Backbone Capability: A Controlled Study of LLMs for Time Series Forecasting |
Best Demo Award University Awardees Paper Title PolyU LI Huahang DataClaw: An Autonomous Data Agent with Instant Messaging Integration XIA Zichao Accelerating LLM Training Recovery with Compressed Asynchronous Checkpointing
The conference concluded with closing remarks delivered by Prof. Xutao LI and Prof. Allen AU, Associate Head (Research and Development) and Professor of COMP. They expressed their appreciation for the enthusiastic participation and high-quality research showcased throughout the event, reiterating the importance of continued collaboration between PolyU and HIT(SZ) in advancing innovation and excellence in computer science. Both professors encouraged students and faculty alike to build on the momentum gained from this conference to drive future breakthroughs and strengthen cross-institutional ties. *The keynote topic title is translated from the original Chinese topic: 通用人工智能大模型的發展現狀及未來突破方向 
