Hi, my name is Zhicong

Education

  • Ph.D. student @ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (–Present, Hong Kong)
    Department of Computing. Supervised by Xiao Huang; research focuses on Data Agents.

  • B.Eng. @ Shanghai Jiao Tong University (–, Shanghai)
    Global College. Major in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), with a minor in Computer Science (CS).

Work experience

Job Position Company Field Work Period
Research Intern Shanghai AI Lab
Shanghai
Pretraining Energy-Based Language Models
Intern SenseTime
Shanghai
Vision-Language Models (VLM) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) –
Intern Caterpillar
Shanghai
Industrial computer vision and deep learning –

Achievements

  • Outstanding Graduate, Shanghai Jiao Tong University β€” Class of 2026
  • YU LiMing Scholarship β€” 2025
  • SJTU Excellence Scholarship β€” 2024 & 2025
  • University Physics Competition (UPC) β€” Gold Award β€” 2025
  • Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) β€” Meritorious Winner β€” 2024