Hao Cheng

About Me

Hello! I am a Ph.D. student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Guangzhou. I am interested in trustworthy and efficient AI. My current research primarily focuses on ensuring the trustworthiness, robustness, and efficiency of various AI models, including:

• Generative AI: Large Language Models, Multimodal Large Language Models (Large Vision Language Models, Large Audio Language Models), Diffusion Models;
• Embodied AI: Vision Language Action Models, Imitation Learning, Humanoid Robot;
• Discriminative AI: Convolutional Neural Network, Vision Transformer, Spiking Neural Network.

Education:

• the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Cross-campus Study Ph.D., Prof.Jize Zhang, 08/2025 - now, HongKong, China SAR
• the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, Ph.D., Prof.Renjing Xu, 09/2022 - now, Guangzhou, China
• Northeastern University, Ph.D., Prof.Xue “Shelley” Lin, 09/2020 - 09/2022, Boston, USA
• Xi’an Jiaotong University, Master, 09/2017 - 07/2020, Xi’an, China
• Hebei University of Technology, B.E., 09/2013 - 06/2017, Tianjing, China

Working Experience:

• Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics Co., Ltd., Research Intern, 07/2025 - 09/2025, Beijing, China
• SAMSUNG AI Research Center(SARC), Research Intern, 04/2021 - 09/2021, Xi’an, China
• Alibaba DAMO Lab-Itelligent Computing Lab, Research Intern, 08/2020 - 03/2021, Shanghai, China

Research Experience:

• University of Oxford, Collaborator, Dr.Jinodng Gu, 12/2023 - now
• Drexel University, Collaborator, Prof.Kaidi Xu, 01/2019 - now
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Collaborator, Dr.Bhavya Kailkhura, 04/2020 - now
• Northeastern University, MIT-IBM Waston AI Lab, Visiting Student, Prof.Sijia Liu, 01/2019 - 06/2019, Boston, USA
• National University of Singapore, Visiting Student, 06/2018 - 08/2018, Singapore

News

- [07/2025]   Best student paper award of IJCAI 2025 Workshop on Deepfake Detection, Localization, and Interpretability.
- [07/2025]  One paper is accepted to ACM MM 2025.
- [06/2025]  One paper is accepted to ICCV 2025.
- [06/2025]  One paper is accepted to IJCAI 2025 Workshop on Deepfake Detection, Localization, and Interpretability.
- [06/2025]  I will serve as a reviewer of NeurIPS 2025, WACV 2025.
- [06/2025]  One paper is accepted to IROS 2025.
- [04/2025]  I will serve as a reviewer of ACM MM 2025, IROS 2025.
- [03/2025]  One paper is accepted to ICASSP 2025; One paper is accepted to ICLR 2025 Workshop on Generative Models for Robot Learning.
- [01/2025]  One paper is accepted to CVPR 2025.
- [11/2024]  I will serve as a reviewer of CVPR 2025, ICRA 2025.
- [09/2024]  One paper is accepted to NeurIPS 2024; One paper is accepted to ACM MobiCom 2024.
- [08/2024]  I will serve as a reviewer of BMVC 2024, WACV 2024.
- [07/2024]  Two papers are accepted to ECCV 2024.
- [06/2024]  One paper is accepted to IROS 2024.
- [05/2024]  One paper is accepted to ACL 2024.
- [01/2024]  One paper is accepted to CVPR 2024.
- [12/2023]  One paper is accepted to WACV 2024; One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
- [08/2023]  One paper is accepted to BMVC 2023.
- [05/2023]  One paper is accepted to IJCAI 2023.

Selected Publications

Projects

Professional Services

Conference Reviewer

• NeurIPS'24, 25
• IROS'25
• ICRA'25
• ACM MM'25
• CVPR'24
• BMVC'24,25
• WACV'22,23,24,25

Journal Reviewer

• TNNLS, TAI, TCAD

Honors and Awards

• Best student paper award of IJCAI 2025 Workshop on Deepfake Detection, Localization, and Interpretability - 2025

• Computer Engineering Fellowship owner at Northeastern University - 2020

• Graduate with honor at Xi’an Jiaotong Universtiy - 2020

• Student with honor, First Prize Scholarship at Xi’an Jiaotong University (2017 & 2018 & 2019)

• Excellent graduation project at Hebei University of Technology - 2017

• Student with honor, First Prize Scholarship at Hebei University of Technology (2014 & 2015 & 2016)

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