Baixuan Xu Tony 徐柏轩

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Hi, welcome to my personal webpage! I’m Baixuan, a first year Ph.D. student from Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Techonology supervised by Professor Yangqiu Song. I received my bachelor degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the same institution in 2024, and I am honored to be funded by the prestigious HKPFS award. This page is updated on 2025/05/16

Research Interests

My research interest lies in following areas:

• Multimodal reasoning and its applications in E-commerce domain. [MIND]
• Multi-agent Interaction and collaborative reasoning, specifically, I’m interested in the collective intelligence of the agent system. [Expertise Delegation]
• VLM/LLMs’ social intelligence, which explores the agent’s capability in interacting with the society and human-beings.
• VLM/LLMs’ reasoning ability, especially from the perspective of meta-cognition (system2 thinking and beyond)

If you are interested in these areas, please feel free to contact me at bxuan at connect dot ust dot hk.

Education

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

• Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering supervised by Professor Yangqiu Song, Sep. 2024 – Jul. 2028 (Expected)
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics, Sep. 2020 – Jun. 2024, First Class Honors, Academic Achievement Medal (~top 1% graduate)

Academic Service

• Conference Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review

Awards

• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (2024 - 2028)
• Dean’s List for the School of Engineering (8 Semesters)
• University’s Scholarship Scheme for Continuing Undergraduate Students (2021 - 2023)