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Education

• M.Phil. in Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), 2025.09 - 2027.06 (expected)
  • Advisor: Prof. Hui Xiong (IEEE, ACM, AAAI, AAAS Fellow)
• B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence, Nanchang University (211, Double First-Class), 2021.09 - 2025.06
  • Ji Luan Academy, AI Experimental Class (top 5% selection)
  • Honors: Baosteel Scholarship Special Prize (only 15 nationwide), Huawei Smart Base Scholarship ×2 (ratio: 0.3%)

Scholarships

• Baosteel Scholarship Special Prize (only 15 winners nationwide), November, 2024
• Nanchang University First Prize Scholarship, September, 2024
• Huawei “Smart Base” Scholarship, December, 2023
• Huawei “Smart Base” Scholarship, December, 2022
• Nanchang University First Prize Scholarship, September, 2022

Research experience

• October 2022 - September 2024
  • LIVE - Laboratory of Imaging and Vision Expression, Nanchang University
  • Explored the role of diffusion models in computational imaging (such as digital holographic imaging and scattering medium imaging), aiming to improve the quality of image reconstruction by extracting prior information.The proposed method can improve the quality of digital holographic image reconstruction while saving the cost of optical devices.
  • Advisors: Professor Qiegen Liu and Wenbo Wan
• January 2024 - March 2024: Research Intern
  • Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University
  • Based on the Stable diffusion model, accurate text-guided editing is performed. The generated diverse weather scenarios are used as datasets to train models for autonomous driving tasks.
  • Supervisor: Yan Wang

Honors and Awards

21 awards at the provincial level or above in competitions such as artificial intelligence, mathematical modeling, innovation and entrepreneurship (including 9 national-level awards and 3 awards for the only winning team in the school)

• Best Poster Award of the 6th Symposium on Computational Imaging Technology and Applications (First Author), May, 2024
• Silver Award in the China International College Student Innovation Competition, October, 2024
• Bronze Award in the 14th Challenge Cup College Student Entrepreneurship Plan Competition (Team Captain), April, 2024
• First prize in the fifth Global Campus Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Elite Competition (Team Captain), December, 2023
• First Prize in the 14th Blue Bridge Cup Special Competition (Student Group), November, 2023
• H Prize in the 2023 American College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition (Ratio: 25%), July, 2023
• Bronze Award in the China College Students’ ‘Internet’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, July, 2023
• Third Prize in the 25th China Robot and Artificial Intelligence Competition (Vice-captain), May, 2023
• First Prize in the 13th MathorCup College Mathematical Modeling Challenge (Team Captain), May, 2023
• First Prize in the Big Data Competition at the 3rd MathorCup College Mathematical Modeling Challenge, March, 2023
• First Prize of the 3rd Jiangxi Province Student Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Competition (Team Captain), November, 2022
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Publications

DMEDH: diffusion model-boosted multiplane extrapolation for digital holographic reconstruction (JCR-Q2, First author)

Gao S, Xv W, Wu X, Liu J, Wang B, Wu T, Wan W, Liu Q. DMEDH: diffusion model-boosted multiplane extrapolation for digital holographic reconstruction. Optics Express. 2024, 32(18):31920-31938. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.531147

HoloDiffusion: Sparse Digital Holographic Reconstruction via Diffusion Modeling (JCR-Q3, Co-first author)

Zhang L, Gao S, Tong M, Huang Y, Zhang Z, Wan W, Liu Q. HoloDiffusion: Sparse Digital Holographic Reconstruction via Diffusion Modeling. Photonics. 2024, 11(4):388. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11040388

Imaging through scattering media via generative diffusion model (JCR-Q2, Third author)

Chen ZY, Lin BY, Gao SY, Wan WB, Liu QG. Imaging through scattering media via generative diffusion model.Appl. Phys. Lett., 2024, 124: 051101.

ARA-Net: An Attention-Aware Retinal Atrophy Segmentation Network Coping With Fundus Images (JCR-Q2, Third author)

Chen L, Zhou YY, Gao SY, Li MY, Tan H, Wan ZJ. ARA-net: an attention-aware retinal atrophy segmentation network coping with fundus images. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023, 17: 1174937.

Invent patents

• H. Xiong, Y. Xia, S. Gao. “Intelligent Encapsulation and Controlled Release System for Big Scientific Data Based on Multi-Stage Workflow and Stream Computing.” (Filed, 2025)
• W. Wan, S. Gao, B. Wang, W. Xu, Q. Liu. “A Dual-Channel Prior-Constrained Multi-Distance Lensless Digital Holographic Reconstruction Method.” ZL 2024107267996. (Student First Author, Granted)
• W. Wan, S. Gao, Z. Zhang, W. Xu, L. Zhang, Q. Liu. “A Sparse Digital Holographic Image Reconstruction Method.” ZL 202410464769.2. (Student First Author, Granted)

National College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program

• Terahertz medical imaging research based on deep learning (project leader), June, 2023 - June, 2024
• Research on brain tumor image segmentation methods based on deep learning (core member), June, 2022 - June, 2024

Academic practice

• Group Leader, Singtel Pio-Innovation-Enterprise (PIE) Program, Singapore, December 7-14, 2025
• Liaison officer for core journal “Telecommunication Technology”, June, 2023 - Present
• AI Researcher at the World Institute of Political Science and Technology, December, 2023 - Present
• Student member of JiangSu Association of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), December, 2023 - Present
• Member of China society of image and graphics (CSIG), May, 2023 - Present
• Outstanding Academic Correspondent in CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, January, 2024 - May, 2024
• Internship at the winter camp of Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University, January, 2024 - March, 2024
• Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University (Course completed with A+ grade), December, 2022

Industry Experience

• March 2025 - August 2025: AI Algorithm Research Intern
  • Beijing Aishi Future Technology Co., Ltd.

Project experience

• Shanghai Guangke Information Technology (Group) Co., Ltd. —— Project Manager (work online most), October, 2022 - Present
• Tianjin Zhishan Information Technology Co., Ltd. —— Co-founder and CTO (work online most), December, 2022 - Present

Youth Organizations

• Invited to attend the Youth Cooperation and Development Summit (hosted by Schwarzman Scholars, Tsinghua University), December, 2023
• Invited as a guest of the World Citizen Year-YouthΠ and accepted an online interview, July, 2023
• Elected as the monitor of the Dream Workshop Youth sponsored by the National Talent Mobility Center, July, 2023
• Co-founder of the College Student Growth Community of the Alliance of the Most Good, December, 2022 - Present

Club experience

• Co-founder and current president of the Student Open Source Maker Association of the School of Information Engineering of Nanchang University, April, 2023 - Present
  • Introduction: The club is the only multidisciplinary academic club at Nanchang University with artificial intelligence as its core. It was jointly initiated by three students, Runmin Jiang, Songyang Gao and Ke Chen, and assisted by teachers from the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the School of Information Engineering. It was established in April 2023 under the management of the School of Information Engineering.
  • Education feedback: Members have made great contributions to the development of students and the college by obtaining national-level innovation and entrepreneurship project approval, core journal liaison officers, national awards in the National College Student Intelligent Car Competition, provincial awards in the Internet + College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, etc. through the club.
  • The purpose of the Open Source Makers Association is to be open, inclusive, innovative, and inheritance, to gather talents and resources, and to go beyond Jiangxi and go nationwide.

Skills

• Programming: Python, PyTorch, C/C++, Flink SQL, Next.js, FastAPI
• AI/ML: Diffusion models, LLM-based agents, streaming data processing, computer vision
• Tools: Docker, Git, Linux, Slurm, cloud deployment