Bo (Boris) Yangă€Œæšćšă€

I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student at HKUST, supervised by Prof. Wenhan Luo and Prof. Hongbo Fu. Prior to that, I obtained my M.S. degree in Computer Science from ShanghaiTech University, supervised by Prof. Ying Cao. I received my B.S. degree in Computer Science from ShanghaiTech University.

My research interests lie at the intersection of computer graphics, computer vision, and human-computer interaction, with a particular focus on Generative AI. Currently, my research focuses on unified multi-modal models (such as BAGEL) and graphic design generation.

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đŸ”„ News

  • [2025/09] I will begin pursuing my Ph.D. in AMC@HKUST in Spring 2026, supervised by Prof. Wenhan Luo and Prof. Hongbo Fu.
  • [2025/08] We release the code and checkpoints for GOL.
  • [2025/07] I successfully defended my master's thesis and was recognized as Excellent Graduate.
  • [2025/06] I will join C4 Group at HKUST as a Research Assistant this fall.
  • [2025/05] One paper were accepted by SIGGRAPH 2025 (Journal-track).

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    📑 Publications

    * denotes equal contribution, † denotes corresponding author, some are highlighted.

    dina-overview
    Beyond VLM-Based Rewards: Diffusion-Native Latent Reward Modeling
    Gongye Liu, Bo Yang, Yida Zhi, Zhizhou Zhong, Lei Ke, Didan Deng, Han Gao, Yongxiang Huang, Kaihao Zhang, Hongbo Fu, Wenhan Luo†
    Preprint, 2026
    Paper / BibTeX / Code

    Diffusion-native reward modeling, improving efficiency while retaining performance.

    ordermatters-pipeline
    Order Matters: Learning Element Ordering for Graphic Design Generation
    Bo Yang, Ying Cao†
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2025)
    Project Page / Paper / PDF / BibTeX / Code

    An unsupervised content-adaptive neural ordering framework learns better element sequences for graphic design generation, improving quality and convergence while generalizing to diffusion models.
    📖 Education

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Ph.D. Student in Arts and Machine Creativity
    AMC@HKUST, C4 Group
    supervised by Prof. Wenhan Luo and Prof. Hongbo Fu

    Jan. 2026 - Present

    ShanghaiTech University
    M.S. in Computer Science
    School of Information Science and Technology
    Supervised by Prof. Ying Cao

    Sep. 2022 - Jul. 2025

    University of California, Berkeley
    Summer School Program
    Exchange Student

    Jul. 2019 - Aug. 2019

    ShanghaiTech University
    B.S. in Computer Science
    School of Information Science and Technology

    Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2022
    ⚙ Experience

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Research Assistant
    HKUST C4 Group
    Supervised by Prof. Wenhan Luo

    Aug. 2025 - Jan. 2026
    🖇 Service & Teaching
    • CS280 - Deep Learning (25S/24F/24S/23F/23S) in ShanghaiTech, Teaching Assistant.
    đŸ”ïž Honors
    • Overseas Exchange Scholarship, ShanghaiTech University, 2019.
    • Merit Student, ShanghaiTech University, 2022-2023.
    • Outstanding Teaching Assistant, ShanghaiTech University, 2023/2024.
    • Excellent Graduate, ShanghaiTech University, 2025.

    Design and source code modified based on Jon Barron's website

    Last update: March, 2026

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