Professional Experience

Tsinghua University

Visiting Student Researcher

Mar. 2025 - Present

ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

Research Student Member

Oct. 2024 - Present

University of New South Wales

Research Assistant

Oct. 2023 - Aug. 2025

Pen CS

Software Engineer Intern

Jan. 2024 - Jun. 2024

China CITIC Bank

Software Engineer Intern

Mar. 2023 - May. 2023

Academic History

University of New South Wales

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science and Engineering

Present

• Supervisors: Prof. Flora Salim and Dr. Benjamin Tag

• Research Areas: Multi-modal Learning, Generative AI, Human-AI Interaction

University of New South Wales

Master of Information Technology with Excellent

• WAM 85.64 (High Distinction)

• Thesis: Uncovering profiles of sequential ads in automated ad targeting - Grade: 94/100

• Research Topic: Australian Ad Observatory: Investigating mobile and dynamic advertising via computational and participatory approaches

• Research Outcomes: [WWW '26] When Ads Become Profiles: Uncovering the Invisible Risk of Web Advertising at Scale with LLMs

Xiamen University of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering with Distinction

• WAM 91.3 (High Distinction), ranked 1/215 students in the major.

• Thesis: Breeze Video: A Deep Learning-Based Intelligent Video Recommendation and Rating System - Grade: 95/100

Awards

• 2025: 3rd Place (US$1500) - KDD Cup 2025, Meta Comprehensive RAG Multi-modal, Multi-turn (CRAG-MM) Challenge, Task 1: Single-source Augmentation
• 2024: Judges (1st) Prize (AU$5000 Research Project Grant) - ADM+S Hackathon 2024: Recommender Systems for Public Service Media
• 2023: Outstanding Graduate - Xiamen University of Technology
• 2023: Honours Bachelor's Degree with Distinction - Xiamen University of Technology
• 2022: Premier Scholarship - Xiamen University of Technology
• 2022: Merit Student & Learning Star - Xiamen University of Technology
• 2022: Third Prize in Java Development Competition - The 13th National Final of the Lan Qiao Cup
• 2022: First Prize in Java Development Competition - The 13th Fujian Division of the Lan Qiao Cup
• 2022: Outstanding Award - RoboCom CAIP Fujian Division
• 2022: Outstanding Group Award - Group Programming Ladder Tournament

Teaching Experience

University of New South Wales

• Tutor of COMP9517 Computer Vision
• Tutor of DESN1000 Introduction to Engineering Design and Innovation
• Guest Lecturer of DESN1000 Introduction to Engineering Design and Innovation

Academic Services

Conference Program Committee / Reviewer

AAAI, WWW, CHI

Journal Reviewer

The ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)