CV

CV of Yidan Zhang, PhD student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

Contact Information

Name Yidan Zhang
Professional Title Ph.D. Student
Email yidanzhang@link.cuhk.edu.cn
Website https://allenyidan.github.io

Professional Summary

Ph.D. student in Computer and Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, advised by Prof. Xiaoguang Han. I work on 4D spatial reasoning, long-video memory, and interactive multimodal agents.

Experience

  • 2025 - 2026
    Research Collaborator
    Huawei Noah's Ark Lab
    • Collaborated with Dave Zhenyu Chen on MLLMs for 4D dynamic spatial reasoning and memory.
    • Designed data/evaluation pipelines and static/dynamic spatial-memory modules for 4D scenes.

Education

  • 2024 - present
    Ph.D.
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    Computer and Information Engineering
    • Sep. 2024 – Present.
    • {“Advisor”=>”Prof. Xiaoguang Han.”}
  • 2020 - 2023
    M.Phil.
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    Computer and Information Engineering
    • {“Sep. 2020 – Jul. 2023. GPA”=>”3.7/4.0.”}
    • {“Advisor”=>”Prof. Xiaoguang Han.”}
  • 2015 - 2019
    B.Eng.
    Central China Normal University
    Computer Science
    • {“Sep. 2015 – Jun. 2019. Rank”=>”4/196.”}
  • 2017 - 2018
    Exchange
    University of California, Berkeley
    Computer Science
    • Aug. 2017 – Jan. 2018.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    WAIC Youth Outstanding Paper Nomination Award
  • 2023
    CCF CAD&CG Open-source Dataset of the Year
  • 2018
    National Scholarship
  • Excellent Graduate
    Central China Normal University

Academic Service

  • Reviewer, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Research and Technical Background

  • Spatial intelligence, 3D/4D vision, long-video understanding, multimodal LLMs
  • Python, PyTorch, COLMAP
  • Chinese (native), English (TOEFL 102)