Biography
Senkang "Forest" Hu is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Chair Professor of Internet of Things and 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. He focuses on LLM-empowered multi-agent systems, LLM post-training, and autonomous driving perception, security, decision-making and planning. His works have been published in top-tier journals such as TMC, TITS, ToN, and top-tier conferences such as AAAI, ICRA, etc. He also serves as a reviewer or technical program committee member for ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICRA, TMC, ToN, TITS, etc.
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Education
PhD @ City University of Hong Kong
Aug. 2023 - Now
Computer Science
Supervisor: Prof. Yuguang "Michael" Fang (Chair Professor of Internet of Things and Fellow of ACM & IEEE & AAAS)

BEng @ Beijing Institute of Technology
Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2022
Electronic Information Engineering
National Scholarship

Research Interests
Foundation Models
- LLM Agent Systems: Designing agentic systems that can achieve complex tasks.
- Reinforcement Learning for LLM Post-Training: Designing RL-based post-training methods to improve the performance of LLMs.
- LLM Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) and Task Adaptation: Designing PEFT methods and task-adaptation strategies to adapt LLMs to specific tasks better and more efficiently.
Multi-Agent Autonomous Driving
- Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception (CP): Overcoming limitations of single-agent perception systems like occlusion and sensing range by leveraging information from multiple vehicles.
- Multi-Agent Autonomous Driving Security: Designing defense methods crucial for secure CP as it expands the system's attack surface by leveraging information from other vehicles.
Publications
*co-first author, ✉corresponding author.
Honors & Awards
IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant
IEEE Communications Society
Institutional Research Tuition Grant
City University of Hong Kong
HK$170,000 to cover part of tuition fees during PhD.
InnoHK Award Funding
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Around HK$900,000 to support research and PhD career.
National Scholarship
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
The highest honor for Chinese university students.
CASC Scholarship, Top 1%
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
Example of Scientific Research Innovation, Top 1%
Beijing Institute of Technology
First Class Academic Scholarship, 4 times
Beijing Institute of Technology
Excellent Student of Beijing Institute of Technology, 3 times
Beijing Institute of Technology
Services
Conference Technical Program Committee & Reviewer
- ACM MM'25
- ICML'25
- ICLR'25
- AAAI'25
- CSCW'25
- ICRA'25
- ICCC'24
- IROS'24, 25
Journal Reviewer
- ACM Computing Surveys
- IEEE TMC
- IEEE/ACM ToN
- IEEE TITS
- IET Information Security
- IEEE TNSM
- ACM TAAS
- Information Fusion
- Pattern Recognition
- IEEE RA-L
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- IEEE TVT
Teaching Assistant
- Cloud Computing, 2025 Spring
- Computer Networks, 2024 Fall
- Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, 2024 Spring
Contact
Office Address
83 Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon, Hong Kong