Plume Tale is a project developed with Unity and Oculus Quest 2. The story takes “Red Bird” as the invisible symbol, inviting the audience to search for lost memories in a campus space intertwined with virtual and reality.
Yulin Shen
Short Bio
Currently, I am a third-year PhD student at HKUST(GZ), supervised by Zeyu Wang and Hongbo Fu. I obtained my master's and bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Technology respectively from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Southeast University.
My current research focuses on 3D input for GenAI, covering computer graphics, computer vision, and human-computer interaction. I have broad interests in the computer field, including networking, edge devices, and website development.
Education
September 2022 - Present
September 2019 - July 2022
September 2014 - July 2018
Research Experience
Research Assistant
July 2021 - February 2022
Worked with Prof. Guoliang Xing and Xian Shuai to address real-life problems with sensors and Edge AI.
- Conducted research on federated learning and worked on a project about federated learning under real-life scenarios with long-tail data distribution. A paper related to this work was accepted by IPSN 2022.
- Conducted research on few-shot learning and explored the possibility of combining vision Transformers with few-shot learning. A paper related to this work was accepted by CVCI 2022.
Publications
DoodleAssist: Progressive Interactive Line Art Generation with Latent Distribution Alignment
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025
GaussianShopVR: Facilitating Immersive 3D Authoring Using Gaussian Splatting in VR
2025 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
GS-ID: Illumination Decomposition on Gaussian Splatting via Adaptive Light Aggregation and Diffusion-Guided Material Priors
2025 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
AniCraft: Crafting Everyday Objects as Physical Proxies for Prototyping 3D Character Animation in Mixed Reality
2024 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Neural Canvas: Supporting Scenic Design Prototyping by Integrating 3D Sketching and Generative AI
2024 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Geometry Attention Transformer with Position-aware LSTMs for Image Captioning
Chi Wang†, Yulin Shen†, Luping Ji
Expert Systems with Applications 201 (2022): 117174
Meta-learning Fine-tuned Feature Extractor for Few-shot Image Classification
Best Presentation Award
2022 International Conference on Computer Vision and Computational Intelligence
BalanceFL: Addressing Class Imbalance in Long-tail Federated Learning
2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
milliEye: A Lightweight mmWave Radar and Camera Fusion System for Robust Object Detection
Best Student Paper
2021 ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation
Projects
This website was built for the Creative Intelligence and Synergy Lab at HKUST(GZ). It is primarily developed using Wagtail, a Python CMS framework.
Selected Honors
- Best Student Paper, The 6th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation, 2021
- Silver Medal, The ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest (Qingdao Site), 2016
- First Prize, Jiangsu Collegiate Programming Contest, 2016
- Bronze Medal, National Olympiad in Informatics, 2013
- Gold Medal, The ACM-ICPC China Provincial Programming Contest (Chengdu Site), 2013
- First Prize, National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, 2013
Services
- Website Director & Volunteer, 2024 Graphics And Mixed Environment Symposium (GAMES 2024), 2024
- Vice President, Student Association for Science and Technology of SEU CSE, 2016-2017
- Student Coach, ACM-ICPC Club of Southeast University, 2015-2016
- Secretary, Science and Technology Innovation Department of SEU CSE Student Union, 2015-2016
- Organizer & Problem Writer, 2016 Collegiate Programming Contest of Southeast University, 2016
- Organizer & Problem Writer, 2016 Short-code Programming Contest of Southeast University, 2016
- Problem Writer, 2015 Collegiate Programming Contest of Southeast University, 2015
Skills
CC++PythonPyTorchLaTeXDevOpsHTMLCSSJavaScriptVue.jsThree.jsGit
Last updated: October 29, 2025