Hi there!!👋 I’m Zhiyuan Xu, a PhD student in the School of Computing and Data Science (CDS) at University of Hong Kong (HKU). I am a member of the Super Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL), advised by Prof. Hengshuang Zhao. I graduated from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in June 2026 with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology.
My research interests primarily lie in computer vision-related area, where I’m actively exploring and delving deeper. Currently, I am an intern at ByteDance Seed working on video generation. Before that, I had wondeful research experiences at HKU, UC Berkeley, Tsinghua and CAS.
During my freshman year and sophomore year, I also explored the area of computer networks, by working as a research assistant at Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CNIC, CAS).
Prior to my research journey, I developed a strong interest in competitive programming and computer science during my (junior) high school years. I have participated in various programming contests, such as National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP), International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) and China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC).
🔥 News
- 2026.06: 🧑🎓🧑🎓 I got my BEng degree from UCAS
- 2025.05: 📄📄 Challenger is online!
- 2025.04: 🎉🎉 One paper got accepted to SIGCOMM’25 Main Conference
- 2024.10: 🧑🎓🧑🎓 I’m awarded Elite Collegiate Award by China Computer Federation
- 2024.10: 🎉🎉 One paper got accepted to WACV’25
- 2024.04: 🎉🎉 One paper got accepted to APNET’24 (SIGCOMM Side Event)
📝 Publications and Preprints
* indicates equal contribution, see Google Scholar for the full list.
in IEEE Transactions on Networking
Xinyi Zhang, Qianrui Qiu, Zhiyuan Xu, Peng He, Guangxing Zhang, Luyiyun Li, Jianer Zhou, Kavé Salamatian, Gaogang Xie†
- This work presents a traffic-aware dataplane framework that boosts multi-dimensional lookup and forwarding performance.
(Oral) Challenger: Affordable Adversarial Driving Video Generation
Zhiyuan Xu*, Bohan Li*, Huan-ang Gao, Mingju Gao, Yong Chen, Ming Liu, Chenxu Yan, Hang Zhao, Shuo Feng, Hao Zhao†
Paper | Code | Project Page | Dataset | AIDriver
- This work generates adversarial driving scenarios that challenge end-to-end autonomous driving models.
NPC: Rethinking Dataplane through Network-aware Packet Classification
Xinyi Zhang, Qianrui Qiu, Zhiyuan Xu, Peng He, Xilai Liu, Kavé Salamatian, Changhua Pei, Gaogang Xie†
- This work proposes a novel paradigm for dataplane design, leveraging network characteristics to improve the efficiency of packet classification.
(Oral) Diffusion-based Visual Anagram as Multi-task Learning
Zhiyuan Xu*, Yinhe Chen*, Huan-ang Gao, Weiyan Zhao, Guiyu Zhang, Hao Zhao
- This paper reformulates the visual anagram generation task as a multi-task learning problem and applies techniques inspired by the latter to the former.
TAR: Traffic Adaptive IPv6 Routing Lookup Scheme
Xinyi Zhang, Zhiyuan Xu, Huaiyi Zhao, Yanbiao Li, Gaogang Xie
- This paper presents the first systematic approach to leveraging traffic characteristics for guiding the construction of IP lookup data structures.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2025.12: 🧑🎓National Scholarship (Top 1%)
- 2025.10: 🧑🎓First Class Academic Scholarship of UCAS (Top 5%)
- 2024.12: 🥈Silver Medal in the 2024 ICPC EC Finals
- 2024.10: 🏆CCF Elite Collegiate Award
- 2024.12: 🧑🎓National Scholarship (Top 1%)
- 2024.10: 🧑🎓First Class Academic Scholarship of UCAS (Top 5%)
- 2023.12: 🧑🎓National Scholarship (Top 1%)
- 2023.10: 🧑🎓First Class Academic Scholarship of UCAS (Top 5%)
- 2022.11: 🥇Gold Medal in the 2022 CCPC, Guangzhou Site
- 2023.11: 🥇First Prize of Beijing in the 2023 CUMCM
- 2018.12: 🥇First Prize (Senior Group) in the 24th National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP2018)
📖 Education
- 2026.09 - Present, PhD Student
- School of Computing and Data Science, University of Hong Kong
- Advisor: Prof. Hengshuang Zhao
- 2022.09 - 2026.06, Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- GPA: 3.99/4.00, Rank: 1/87
- 2025 Spring, Concurrent Enrollment Student in Computer Science
- University of California, Berkeley
- GPA: 4.00/4.00
💻 Experience
- 2025.11 - Present, Intern
- Seedance | ByteDance Seed
- Research on video generation.
- Summer 2025, Research Intern
- Summer Research Programme | The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
- Research on video generation.
- Spring 2025, Research Intern
- MSC Lab | UC Berkeley
- Research on 3D computer vision.
- 2024.07 - 2025.06, Research Intern
- Advisor: Prof. Hao Zhao | Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University
- Research on image generation and autonomous driving.
- 2023.10 - 2024.08, Research Intern
- Advisor: Prof. Shuang Yang | VIPL, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS
- Research on visual speech recognition.
- 2023.03 - 2024.08, Research Intern
- Advisor: Prof. Gaogang Xie | Computer Network Information Center, CAS
- Research on traffic routing and forwarding.
🎓 Professional Service
- Conference reviewer: CoRL 2025, NeurIPS 2025, CoRL 2026, NeurIPS 2026
- Teaching Assistant, UCAS: Introduction to Computer Science (Spring 2024); Junior Seminar (Fall 2024)