Hi, my name is

Baiyu Chen (Breeze)

Incoming PhD Student @ CRUISE - UNSW

Hi! I am Baiyu Chen, you can call me Breeze, an incoming PhD student at CRUISE Research Group, UNSW Sydney, supervised by Prof. Flora Salim and Dr. Benjamin Tag. I am also a visiting student researcher at Tsinghua University, collaborating with A/Prof. Yuntao Wang, and a research student member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). During my Master's, I was supervised by Prof. Flora Salim, Dr. Hao Xue and Prof. Daniel Angus.

My Research Interests

• Multi-modal Learning

• Generative AI

• Self-supervised Learning

• Personalized Behavior Modeling

• Ubiquitous Computing

• Human-AI Interaction

• Recommender System

Professional Experience

Tsinghua University

Visiting Student Researcher

Mar. 2025 - Present

ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

Research Student Member

Oct. 2024 - Present

University of New South Wales

Research Assistant

Oct. 2023 - Aug. 2025

Pen CS

Software Engineer Intern

Jan. 2024 - Jun. 2024

China CITIC Bank

Software Engineer Intern

Mar. 2023 - May. 2023

Academic History

University of New South Wales

Master of Information Technology

Present

Thesis Research Topic: Australian Ad Observatory: Investigating mobile and dynamic advertising via computational and participatory approaches

Xiamen University of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering with Distinction

WAM 91.3 (High Distinction), ranked 1/215 students in the major.

Thesis: Breeze Video: A Deep Learning-Based Intelligent Video Recommendation and Rating System

Awards

• 2025: 3rd Place (US$1500) - KDD Cup 2025, Meta Comprehensive RAG Multi-modal, Multi-turn (CRAG-MM) Challenge, Task 1: Single-source Augmentation
• 2024: Judges (1st) Prize (AU$5000 Research Project Grant) - ADM+S Hackathon 2024: Recommender Systems for Public Service Media
• 2023: Outstanding Graduate - Xiamen University of Technology
• 2023: Honours Bachelor's Degree with Distinction - Xiamen University of Technology
• 2022: Premier Scholarship - Xiamen University of Technology
• 2022: Merit Student & Learning Star - Xiamen University of Technology
• 2022: Third Prize in Java Development Competition - The 13th National Final of the Lan Qiao Cup
• 2022: First Prize in Java Development Competition - The 13th Fujian Division of the Lan Qiao Cup
• 2022: Outstanding Award - RoboCom CAIP Fujian Division
• 2022: Outstanding Group Award - Group Programming Ladder Tournament

Academic Services

Program Committee

• AAAI '26