Weibin Kou

寇卫斌

PhD Candidate

Rm 705, Chow Yei Ching Building
The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Hong Kong SAR, China

Email: wbkou@connect.hku.hk


Biography

I am currently a PhD candidate at The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), The University of Hong Kong (HKU), supervised by Prof. Yik-Chung Wu. My research interest lies at the intersection of Federated Learning (FL), Large Models (LMs), Autonomous Driving (AD) and Robotic Perception.

News

Publications

*: equal contribution, †: corresponding author

Patents

  • Training method of street scene understanding based on large visual model.
    Weibin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Shuai Wang, Kaifeng Han and Qimei Chen.
    Approved 2024115636615.

  • An interpretable, high-fidelity, non-prompting data annotator.
    Guangxu Zhu, Weibin Kou, Shuai Wang, Kaifeng Han and Qimei Chen.
    Under Approval.

  • Large model application methods, devices and media in the context of autonomous driving.
    Guangxu Zhu, Weibin Kou, Shuai Wang, Kaifeng Han and Qimei Chen.
    CN Patent CN118823719B.

  • Model training method, vehicle control method and device based on Gaussian distribution.
    Weibin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Shuai Wang, Kaifeng Han and Qimei Chen.
    CN Patent CN118151540A.

  • Large model driven personalized federated learning methods, vehicle control methods and devices.
    Weibin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Shuai Wang, Kaifeng Han and Qimei Chen.
    CN Patent CN118151539A.

  • Defect Detection Methods, Systems and Robots.
    Weibin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Haitao Wu, Shuai Wang and Qingjiang Shi.
    CN Patent CN116596865B.

  • A Behavior Prediction Method, System, Electronic Device and Storage Medium.
    Weibin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Shuai Wang, Yingxian Chen and Qingjiang Shi.
    CN Patent CN116580448B.

  • Device detection method, device, computer device and medium based on neural network.
    Qingfeng Lin, Yang Li, Weibin Kou, Zonghui Zhang, Yik-Chung Wu.
    CN Patent CN116390139A.

  • Device status detection method, access point, central processing unit and computer equipment.
    Qingfeng Lin, Yang Li, Weibin Kou, Zonghui Zhang, Yik-Chung Wu.
    CN Patent CN116456384A.

  • Intelligent Mowing System.
    Weipeng Chen,Hongwei Wang,Dezhong Yang, Weibin Kou.
    US Patent US011140819B2.

Honors & Awards

  • IROS 2024 Travel Grant ($1,000)
    2023

  • SUSTech Fellowship Program (RMB200,000)
    2023

  • 1973 HKUEEE Graduates 50th Anniversary Sustainability/Innovation Prize with MERIT AWARD
    2023

  • National first prize in the public safety contest of the 5th "Bloom Cup" 5G application competition
    2022

  • National third prize in the intelligent transportation contest of the 5th "Bloom Cup" 5G application competition
    2022

  • First Prize of National Mathematical Modelling Contest
    2012

  • National Inspirational Scholarship
    2012, 2013

  • First-Class Academic Scholarship
    2013

  • Outstanding Graduate
    2014

  • Outstanding Thesis
    2014

Education

  • [01/2022 - Present] PhD, The University of Hong Kong (Supervisor: Yik-Chung Wu)
  • [09/2010 - 07/2014] BEng, The Shaanxi University of Science and Technology

Work Experience

  • [05/2023 - 08/2023] Part-time Research Assistant, HKU Business School (Mentor: Tse-Chun LIN)
  • [02/2021 - 10/2021] Research Assistant, The Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Mentor: Ajay Kumar)
  • [07/2020 - 02/2021] Research Assistant, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University (Mentor: Feng Gao)
  • [04/2018 - 07/2020] Software Engineer, Ambarella semiconductor technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (Ambarella)
  • [03/2016 - 04/2018] Software Engineer, Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd. (Chervon)
  • [07/2014 - 03/2016] Software Engineer, Guangdong Gobao intelligent technology Co., Ltd. (Gobao)

Professional Activities

  • Program Committee:

  • Program Committee Member for 2nd International Conference on AI-generated Content (AIGC), 2024.

  • Journal Reviewer:

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).

  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).

  • Conference Reviewer:

  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025.

  • IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interface (IEEE VR), 2025.

  • ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2025.

  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

  • International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, 2025.

  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.


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