Weibin Kou

寇卫斌

Ph.D.

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

I am seeking academic positions in the intersection of deep learning, federated learning, autonomous driving and robotic vision perception. Please do not hesitate to contact me if my research background fits your requirements.


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.

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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).

  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS).

  • 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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