Xingchen Zou
Scholar

Xingchen Zou

Google Scholar ID: xh6SdPAAAAAJ
The University of Hong Kong
LLM/VLM AgentAI4ScienceUrban Computing
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
95
 
H-index
3
 
i10-index
2
 
Publications
9
 
Co-authors
11
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Publications:
  • - 'Traffic-R1: Reinforced LLMs Bring Human-Like Reasoning to Traffic Signal Control Systems', arXiv preprint
  • - 'Fine-grained Urban Heat Island Effect Forecasting: A Context-aware Thermodynamic Modeling Framework', KDD 2025
  • - 'Nature makes no leaps: Building continuous location embeddings with satellite imagery from the web', WWW 2025
  • - 'GraphAgent: Agentic Graph Language Assistant', EMNLP 2025
  • - 'Learning Geospatial Region Embedding with Heterogeneous Graph', SIGSPATIAL 2025
  • - Awards:
  • - First prize for DeepUHI in UGOD AI for Urban seminar, June 2025
  • - First runner-up in HKUSTGZ thesis writing competition, December 2025
  • - Projects:
  • - Traffic-R1, an exciting traffic LLM agent, got 1000+ likes and 100,000 impressions on X.com
  • - DeepUHI, accepted by KDD 2025 research track
  • - Released the first comprehensive survey about multimodal DL in Urban Computing
Research Experience
  • - AI Scientist at ByFusion Co., from Sep. 2025
  • - Intern Research Assistant at Hong Kong Center for Construction Robotics (HKCRC), May 2023 to Jan. 2024
  • - Research Assistant at Data Acquisition & Analysis Laboratory, HKU, Dec. 2022 to Oct. 2023
  • - PC Member for WWW, MM, AAAI, SIGSPATIAL, starting from 2025
Education
  • - PhD: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), AI and Data Science, supervised by Dr. Yuxuan Liang
  • - First Master's Degree: The University of Hong Kong, Data Acquisition & Analysis Laboratory, supervised by Ir Prof. Francis T.K. AU, Oct. 2023
  • - Second Master's Degree: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Data Science
  • - Bachelor's Degree: Wuhan University, Civil Engineering, supervised by Prof. Lu Haifeng, 2022, with distinction
Background
  • - Research Interests: AI Agent, Urban AI, Multimodal Learning
  • - Professional Field: Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
  • - Brief Introduction: Grew up in Sichuan, China, loves pandas, highly motivated in AI research.
Miscellany
  • - Personal Interests: Not explicitly mentioned, but mentioned loving pandas
  • - Other: Looking for research intern opportunities in various fields