About Me

I am an undergraduate student at HKUST studying computer engineering. My research interests includes Autonomous Agents, Medical AI, Time Series Modeling, LLM, VLM, Explainable AI. In my spare time, I enjoy listening to music and reading novels. Please feel free to contact me for collaborations.

Education

2023 — Present

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Computer Engineering

Research Experience

August 2025 — April 2026

Machine Learning Research Assistant

As a Machine Learning Research Assistant focused on driving fatigue detection, I engineered an automated facial analysis pipeline to generate high-quality, standardized annotations for supervised learning tasks. For the publication “Bidirectional Temporal Dynamics Modeling for EEG-based Driving Fatigue Recognition,” I independently led the full research lifecycle: curating the dataset, designing the model architecture and hyperparameters, executing all experiments, and authoring the methodology, experimental design, results, and conclusion. I also produced all figures, tables, and technical diagrams to ensure clear, reproducible presentation of findings.

August 2025 — February 2026

Large Language Model Research Assistant

During my time working as a LLM research assistant, I implemented supervised fine-tuning (SFT) pipelines across multiple open-source LLMs (Qwen, Gemma, etc.) and curated large-scale, structured datasets to enable reproducible training and rigorous benchmarking. I developed targeted steering and intervention mechanisms to constrain model behavior and improve reasoning consistency. Additionally, I contributed to manuscript development by conducting technical reviews and refining the narrative structure to enhance clarity, accessibility, and publication readiness.

News

  • Aug 2026

    1 paper accepted by COLM 2026. 🎉

  • Apr 2026

    1 paper accepted by ACL 2026 (Main Conference). 🎉

  • Jan 2026

    1 paper accepted by ICLR 2026 (Poster). 🎉

Publications

DeltaGateNet overview
Bidirectional Temporal Dynamics Modeling for EEG-based Driving Fatigue Recognition

Under submission to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems [JIF:9.1]

Yip Tin Po*, Jianming WANG*, Yutao Miao, Jiayan Zhang, Yunxu Zhao, Xiaomin Ouyang, Zhihong Li, Nevin L. Zhang

LogiConBench overview
LogiConBench: Benchmarking Logical Consistencies of LLMs

ICLR 2026 (Poster)

Zheng CHEN*, Chuan Zhou*, Fengxiang Cheng, Yip Tin Po, Fenrong Liu, Yisen Wang, Jiajun Chai, Xiaohan Wang, Guojun Yin, Wei Lin, Haoxuan Li, Bo Li, Zhouchen Lin

Good Arguments overview
Good Arguments Against the People Pleasers: How Reasoning Mitigates (Yet Masks) LLM Sycophancy

ACL 2026 (Main Conference)

Zhaoxin Feng, Zheng CHEN, Jianfei Ma, Yip Tin Po, Emmanuele Chersoni, Bo Li

PCA-guided Activation Scaling overview
PCA-guided Activation Scaling for Monotonic Bidirectional Control over LLM Sycophancy

COLM 2026

Zheng CHEN, Zhaoxin Feng, Yip Tin Po, Jianfei Ma, Emmanuele Chersoni, Bo Li

* denotes equal contributions