Breeze

Baiyu Chen (Breeze) 陈柏宇

PhD Student @ CRUISE - UNSW

Short Bio:

Baiyu Chen (Breeze) is a PhD student at CRUISE Research Group, UNSW Sydney, advised by Prof. Flora Salim and Dr. Benjamin Tag. He is also a visiting student researcher at Tsinghua University, collaborating with A/Prof. Yuntao Wang, and a research student member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Baiyu received his Master's degree from UNSW Sydney, advised by Prof. Flora Salim, Dr. Hao Xue, and Prof. Daniel Angus.

Baiyu's research focuses on multimodal learning and intelligent interaction for wearable and mobile systems. His work aims to build human-centric and proactive AI systems that can better understand people's behaviors, contexts, and needs, and support people in everyday life, health, and wellbeing. His broader research interests include self-supervised learning, generative AI, behavior modeling, human-AI interaction, and ubiquitous computing.

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News

  • 05/2026: Excited to release our latest work AnyMo, a comprehensive framework for wearable motion understanding, covering synthetic IMU generation, geometry-aware pre-training, motion-language alignment, data resources and a new benchmark.
  • 05/2026: I am serving as a organizer for the 2nd DiversityOne Open Challenge at UbiComp/ISWC 2026. We welcome submissions exploring diversity in everyday life behavior with mobile sensing data! Check out our CFP!
  • 05/2026: "When Ads Become Profiles" was featured in UNSW Newsroom and other media including CHOICE, the longest-running and largest consumer advocacy organisation in Australia!
  • 04/2026: ZARA is accepted by ACL 2026 Main (Oral)! See you in San Diego 🇺🇸!
  • 04/2026: COMODO is accepted by IMWUT / UbiComp 2026! See you in Shanghai 🇨🇳!
  • 01/2026: "When Ads Become Profiles" paper is accepted by WWW 2026! See you in Dubai 🇦🇪! See you online 😭.
  • 09/2025: Started my PhD journey at UNSW Sydney, supervised by Prof. Flora Salim and Dr. Benjamin Tag.
  • 08/2025: Visiting A/Prof. Yuntao Wang at Tsinghua University.
  • 08/2025: Received the Master of Information Technology with Excellence at UNSW Sydney with a High Distinction WAM.
  • 07/2025: We won 3rd Place (US$1500) at KDD Cup 2025, Meta Comprehensive RAG Multi-modal, Multi-turn (CRAG-MM) Challenge, Task 1: Single-source Augmentation! Thanks to the organizers for the invitation to present our solution and publish a paper at the KDD 2025 CRAG-MM Workshop.
  • 07/2025: Attending the IVE 2025 Winter School on AI for XR at the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments, University of South Australia, see you in Adelaide!
  • 07/2025: Attending the ADM+S Symposium 2025 at the University of Queensland, see you in Brisbane!
  • 12/2024: We won the Judges' (1st) Prize (AU$5000 Research Project Grant) at ADM+S Hackathon 2024: Recommender Systems for Public Service Media, hosted at the University of Melbourne!
  • 10/2024: Becoming a research student member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).