🌏 Biography

Senkang “Forest” Hu is currently advancing his academic pursuits as a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Chair Professor of Internet of Things, Fellow of ACM & IEEE & AAAS, Prof. Yuguang “Michael” Fang. Previously, he received his BEng degree from the School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology in 2022.

β˜… If you have any questions or are interested in a collaboration with Senkang, please feel free to drop him an email.

Interests
  • Collaborative Perception
  • Autonomous Driving
  • LLM Agents
  • Foundation Models
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science (CS), 2023 - Now

    City University of Hong Kong (CITYU HK), Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

  • BEng in Electronic and Information Engineering (EE), 2018 - 2022

    Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China

πŸ”₯ Latest News

  • [Nov. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligence Transportation Systems (TITS)! [PDF]
  • [Nov. 2024] Senkang was awarded the IEEE ComSoc Student Grant to support his conference travel.
  • [Sep. 2024] Senkang was nominated as a Program Committee Member of AAAI'25 and ICLR'25!
  • [Aug. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)!
  • [Jul. 2024] Two papers were accepted by GLOBECOM'24, see you in Cape Town πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦!
  • [Sep. 2023] Senkang was awarded the Institutional Research Tuition Grant, nearly HK$170,000.
  • [Jul. 2023] Congratulations to Senkang πŸŽ‰, finally moved to Hong Kong πŸ‡­πŸ‡°πŸ‡­πŸ‡°πŸ‡­πŸ‡° to start his new career!
  • [Jun. 2023] Thanks to Prof. Fang’s strong support, Senkang received the InnoHK Award Funding, around HK$900,000 from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to support his research and PhD career.
  • [Jun. 2022] Senkang graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology. Thanks to all the professors, senior students and friends who helped him in the past four years.
  • [Dec. 2021] Senkang was awarded the National Scholarship for his top 1% academic performance in the whole department, which is the highest honor for Chinese university students.

πŸŽ“ Publications

#equal contribution, *corresponding author.

  1. [Preprint] Senkang “Forest” Hu#, Yihang Tao#, Yuguang Fang, et al. “Robost Agent Detection in Collaborative Perception.”
  2. [Preprint] Senkang “Forest” Hu#, Yihang Tao#, Yuguang Fang, et al. “Agent Detection in Collaborative Bird’s Eye View Perception.”
  3. [Preprint] Senkang “Forest” Hu, Zhengru Fang, Zihan Fang, Yiqin Deng, Xianhao Chen, Yuguang Fang, Sam Kwong. “AgentsCoMerge: Large Language Model Empowered Collaborative Decision Making for Multi-Lane Merging.” [PDF]
  4. [Preprint] Senkang “Forest” Hu, Zhengru Fang, Zihan Fang, Xianhao Chen, Yuguang Fang. “AgentsCoDriver: Large Language Model Empowered Collaborative Driving with Lifelong Learning.” [PDF, Report]
  5. [Preprint] Senkang “Forest” Hu, Zhengru Fang, Yiqin Deng, Xianhao Chen, Yuguang Fang. “Collaborative Perception for Autonomous Driving: Challenges, Possible Solutions and Opportunities.” [PDF]
  6. [TITS'24] Senkang “Forest” Hu, Zhengru Fang, Xianhao Chen, Yuguang Fang, and Sam Kwong. “Towards Full-scene Domain Generalization in Multi-agent Collaborative Bird’s Eye View Segmentation for Connected and Autonomous Driving.” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. [PDF]
  7. [GLOBECOM'24] Senkang “Forest” Hu, Zhengru Fang, Haonan An, Guowen Xu, Yuan Zhou, Xianhao Chen, and Yuguang Fang. “Adaptive Communications in Collaborative Perception with Domain Alignment for Autonomous Driving”, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2024. [PDF]
  8. [Preprint] Zhengru Fang, Senkang “Forest” Hu, Jingjing Wang, Yiqin Deng, Xianhao Chen, Yuguang Fang. “Prioritized Information Bottleneck Theoretic Framework with Distributed Online Learning for Edge Video Analytics.” [PDF, Code]
  9. [Preprint] Yihang Tao, Senkang “Forest” Hu, Zhengru Fang, Yuguang Fang. “Direct-CP: Directed Collaborative Perception for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles via Proactive Attention”. [PDF]
  10. [Preprint] Zihan Fang, Zheng Lin, Senkang “Forest” Hu, Hangcheng Cao, Xianhao Chen, and Yuguang Fang. “IC3M: In-Car Multimodal Multi-object Monitoring for Abnormal Status of Both Driver and Passengers.” [PDF]
  11. [GLOBECOM'24] Zhengru Fang, Senkang “Forest” Hu, Yuguang Fang, et al. “PIB: Prioritized Information Bottleneck Framework for Collaborative Edge Video Analytics”, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2024. [PDF, Code]
  12. [TMC'24] Zhengru Fang, Senkang “Forest” Hu, Haonan An, Yuang Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Hangcheng Cao, Xianhao Chen, Yuguang Fang. “PACP: Priority-Aware Collaborative Perception for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.” IEEE Transactions on Moblie Computing. [PDF]

πŸš€ Experiences

 
 
 
 
 
Pivot Biomedical Engineering Ltd.
Co-Founder & CTO
Pivot Biomedical Engineering Ltd.
June 2024 – Present Hong Kong
 
 
 
 
 
City University of Hong Kong
Research Assistant
City University of Hong Kong
July 2023 – December 2023 Hong Kong
 
 
 
 
 
Prism Private Equity Fund Management Co. LTD
Quantitative Strategy Intern
Prism Private Equity Fund Management Co. LTD
September 2022 – December 2022 Beijing
Responsible for financial data processing, stock data mining, trading strategy research and testing, etc.
 
 
 
 
 
HAOMO.AI
Computer Vision Intern
HAOMO.AI
April 2022 – August 2022 Beijing
Responsible for the maintenance and iteration of 3D point cloud object detection algorithm, the generalization of 3D object detection algorithm, data cleaning algorithm research, research and experiment of training methods, etc.
 
 
 
 
 
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Assistant
Chinese Academy of Sciences
October 2021 – March 2022 Beijing
 
 
 
 
 
Beijing Institute of Technology
Research Assistant
Beijing Institute of Technology
March 2020 – October 2021 Beijing

πŸ₯‡ Awards & Honors

IEEE ComSoc Student Grant
IEEE Communications Society Nov 2024
Institutional Research Tuition Grant
City University of Hong Kong Sep 2023
HK$170,000 to waive part of his tuition fees during PhD.
InnoHK Award Funding
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Jun 2023
Around HK$900,000 to support his research and PhD career.
National Scholarship
Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China Dec 2021
The highest honor for Chinese university students.
CASC Scholarship, Top 1%
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Oct 2020
Example of Scientific Research Innovation, Top 1%
Beijing Institute of Technology Sep 2020
First Class Academic Scholarship, 4 times
Beijing Institute of Technology Sep 2018 – Dec 2021
Excellent Student of Beijing Institute of Technology, 3 times
Beijing Institute of Technology Sep 2018 – Dec 2021

πŸ’» Services

Technical Program Committee

  • The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'25)
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'25)

Reviewer

  • ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'25)
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'25)
  • The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'24)
  • The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'24)
  • IET Information Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
  • ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
  • Information Fusion
  • Pattern Recognition (PR)
  • 2024 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC'24)
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'24)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'24)
  • Proceedings of the IEEE
  • etc……

Teaching Assistant

  • Computer Networks, 2024 Fall
  • Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, 2024 Spring

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