Hi! Iโm Yuchen Huang (้ปๅฎๆจ), a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I am fortunate to be supported by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) and supervised by Prof. Yi R. (May) Fung. Since September 2025, I have also been a research intern at Tongyi Lab, Alibaba, collaborating with Daoyuan Chen. Prior to my Ph.D., I received my B.S. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in 2023.
My research interests generally lie in the area of AI/NLP, focusing on building more human-centric, trustworthy, and powerful LLMs/VLMs/Agents. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in academic collaboration or would like to have a casual discussion.
๐ฅ News
- 2025.11 ๐ Released SEA (accepted by NeurIPS 2025 Workshop) and CantoASR on arXiv!
- 2025.09 ๐ช Joined Tongyi Lab, Alibaba as a research intern!
- 2025.08 ๐ MAC-Tuning has been accepted by EMNLP 2025! See you in Suzhou!
- 2025.07 ๐ CultureCLIP has been accepted by COLM 2025! See you in Montreal!
- 2025.05 ๐ MMBoundary has been accepted by ACL 2025 (Main)!
- 2024.10 ๐ช Joined RenAI Lab, HKUST!
- 2023.09 ๐ Awarded HKPFS and RedBird PhD Award!
- 2023.06 ๐ Obtained B.E. degree from Zhejiang University and selected as Outstanding Undergraduate!
๐ Publications
LLM Reasoning
- EMNLP 2025 MAC-Tuning: LLM Multi-Compositional Problem Reasoning with Enhanced Knowledge Boundary Awareness, Junsheng Huang, Zhitao He, Yuchen Huang, Sandeep Polisetty, Qingyun Wang, Yi R. (May) Fung
- ACL 2025 (Main) MMBoundary: Advancing MLLM Knowledge Boundary Awareness through Reasoning Step Confidence Calibration, Zhitao He, Sandeep Polisetty, Zhiyuan Fan, Yuchen Huang, Shujin Wu, Yi R. (May) Fung
Multi-Modal Exploration
- COLM 2025 CultureCLIP: Empowering CLIP with Cultural Awareness through Synthetic Images and Contextualized Captions, Yuchen Huang, Zhiyuan Fan, Zhitao He, Sandeep Polisetty, Wenyan Li, Yi R. (May) Fung
- arXiv 2025 CantoASR: Prosody-Aware ASR-LALM Collaboration for Low-Resource Cantonese, Dazhong Chen, Yi-Cheng Lin, Yuchen Huang, Ziwei Gong, Di Jiang, Zeying Xie, Yi R. (May)Fung
Agents and Tool Use
- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop Scaling Environments for LLM Agents in the Era of Learning from Interaction: A Survey, Yuchen Huang, Sijia Li, Minghao Liu, Wei Liu, Shijue Huang, Zhiyuan Fan, Hou Pong Chan, Yi R. (May) Fung
๐๏ธ Honors and Awards
- Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (UGC, Hong Kong, 2023-26)
- RedBird PhD Award (HKUST, 2023)
- Outstanding Graduate (Zhejiang Province, 2023)
- National Scholarship (Ministry of Education, China, 2019-20 & 2020-21)
- The First-Class Scholarship (Zhejiang University, 2019-20 & 2020-21 & 2021-22)
๐ Educations
- ๐ Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. HKUST. Sep. 2023 - Present.
- ๐ B.S. in Electronic Science and Technology. Zhejiang University. Sep. 2019 - July 2023.
๐ป Internships
- ๐ง Tongyi Lab, Alibaba, Hangzhou, China. Sep. 2025 - Present.
- ๐ง Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Jul. 2023 - Aug. 2023.
๐ Academic Service
- Reviewer: EMNLP, NeurIPS Workshop.
- Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Computer Science. HKUST, 2024-25 Fall.
- Teaching Assistant: COMP2011 Programming with C++. HKUST, 2023-24 Spring.
โจ Miscellaneous
Apart from academic pursuits, I have a deep passion for ๐travel and ๐ท photography. I am also an avid sports enthusiast, with ๐พ tennis, ๐ swimming, ๐ basketball, โฐ๏ธ hiking, and ๐running being part of my daily fitness routine. I thrive on taking on challenges and firmly believe that the sky is the limit. I am a dedicated fan of the Golden State Warriors๐๐, and my GOAT is Stephen Curry!