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ZOU Xingchen

Hi! I am Zou Xingchen (邹星辰) grew up in Sichuan (Szechuan), China. You can infer that I love pandas! I am highly motivated in AI research.

I am currently an PhD student in AI and Data Science at CityMind Lab, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Guangzhou, supervised by Dr. Yuxuan Liang. Before that, I obtained my first Master degree in Engineering from Data Acquisition& Analysis Laboratory, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), supervised by Ir Prof. Francis T.K. AU in Oct. 2023 and second Master degree in Data Science from HKUST. I got my BSc degree in Civil Engineering from Wuhan University (WHU) under the supervision of Prof. Lu Haifeng, with distinction in 2022.

BSc (Distinction), Wuhan Univerisity
MSc, The University of Hong Kong
PhD Student/ MPhil,HKUST

Research Interest:
AI Agent
Urban AI
Multimodal Learning

Looking for research intern opportunities in Singapore/USA !

Email: xczou [at] connect.hku.hk

News

Jan. 2026 One paper from Xusen about LLM Agent was accepted by WWW 2026.

Oct. 2025 One paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2025 as spotlight paper, congratulation to Siru.

Sep.2025 I formally join ByFusion Co. Hong Kong as AI Scientist.

Aug. 2025 One paper was accepted by EMNLP 2025 main conference, congratulation to Yuhao.

Aug. 2025 Our Traffic-R1, an exciting traffic LLM agent got 1000+ like and 100,000 impression on X.com! 📄 https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02344

Aug. 2025 GeoHG was accepted by SIGSPATIAL 2025 as full paper. Thanks all.

Jun. 2025 My research DeepUHI won the first prize on UGOD AI for Urban seminar.

May.2025 DeepUHI was accepted by KDD 2025 research track. Thanks to my collaborators.

Apr. 2025 One paper was accepted by WWW 2025, congratulation to Xixuan.

Dec.2025 I won the first runner-up in HKUSTGZ thesis writing competition.

Feb. 2024 Our urban computing survey was accepted by Information Fusion (SCI IF 18.6)

Jan. 2024 We release the first comprehensive survey about multimodal DL in Urban Computing! Link.

Jun. 2023 Our team JBOT Limited began to be supported by HKSTP Ideation & Incubation Programmes.

May. 2023 I started to work as an intern researcher in Hong Kong Center for Construction Robotics (HKCRC).

Dec. 2022 I joined the Data Acquisition& Analysis Laboratory, HKU as an intern researcher supported by HKSAR.

Jun. 2022 I graduated form WHU with distinction!

Services

2026 Reviwer for Neurocomputing/ Information Fusion
2025 PC Member: WWW, MM, AAAI, SIGSPATIAL; ACM Member
Intern Researcher @PCITECH, Guangzhou; AI Scientist @ByFusion Co. , Hong Kong/Singapore
2024 PC Member : WWW

Publications

Guo, X., Peng, M., Hao, X., Zou, X., Wang, Q., Ruan, S., & Liang, Y. (2026). AgentSense: LLMs Empower Generalizable and Explainable Web-Based Participatory Urban Sensing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.19661. (WWW 2026)
Zou, X., Yang, Y., Chen, Z., Hao, X., Chen, Y., Huang, C., & Liang, Y. (2025). Traffic-R1: Reinforced LLMs Bring Human-Like Reasoning to Traffic Signal Control Systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02344.
Zou, X., Ruan, W., Zhong, S., Hu, Y., & Liang, Y. (2025, August). Fine-grained Urban Heat Island Effect Forecasting: A Context-aware Thermodynamic Modeling Framework. In Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V. 2 (pp. 4226-4237).(KDD 2025)
Hao, X., Chen, W., Zou, X., & Liang, Y. (2025, April). Nature makes no leaps: Building continuous location embeddings with satellite imagery from the web. In Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 (pp. 2799-2812).(WWW 2025)
Yang, Y., Tang, J., Xia, L., Zou, X., Liang, Y., & Huang, C. (2024). GraphAgent: Agentic Graph Language Assistant. (EMNLP 2025 Main Conference)
Zou, X., Huang, J., Hao, X., Yang, Y., Wen, H., Yan, Y., Huang, C., & Liang, Y. (2024). Learning Geospatial Region Embedding with Heterogeneous Graph. (ACM SIGSPATIAL) [paper][code]
Zou, X., Yan, Y., Hao, X., Hu, Y., Wen, H., Liu, E., ... & Liang, Y. (2024). Deep Learning for Cross-Domain Data Fusion in Urban Computing: Taxonomy, Advances, and Outlook. Information Fusion. (SCI IF 18.6) [paper][code]
Lu, H., Wei, A., & Zou, X. (2022). Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of Layered Slab-Crack Composite Structure Rock Mass. Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, 2022(S2), 3282–3293.(北大核心) [paper]

Awards & Honors

2025 First Prize in AI for Urban Seminar; HKUSTGZ
2024 First Runner-up in Thesis Writing Competition; HKUSTGZ
2022 Outstanding Graduate; Wuhan University
2021 Second Prizeof National Structural Design and Information Technology Competition;China Civil Engineering Society (CCES)
2021 Outstanding Student; Wuhan University
2021 Excellent Student Scholarship; Wuhan University
2021 ExcellentStudent Cadre; Wuhan University
2020 Excellent Student Scholarship; Wuhan University

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