Greetings! This is Shuang Liang | 梁爽
I’m a second-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Han Wang. Before HKU, I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, advised by Prof. Shengjun Yuan and Prof. Shunping Zhang. I also spent a wonderful time as a research intern at Rama Alpaca Technology Company under the supervision of Dr. Guo Zhang and in collaboration with Prof. Yingcong Chen and Prof. Yuan Yuan in the last semester of my undergraduate study. We have maintained a strong and frequent research collaboration ever since.
Generative Priors for Robust Perception
Robust Perception and Reasoning
Leveraging large-scale generative models as foundation priors to improve robustness, generalization, and reasoning under challenging real-world conditions.
Multimodal Representation Learning
Unified and Transferable Latent Spaces
Designing stable, scalable, and transferable representations that generalize across modalities, downstream tasks, and data regimes.
Hardware Acceleration
Algorithm-Hardware Co-design
Developing efficient models under low-bit, sparse, and hardware-constrained settings, aligned with emerging computing paradigms and practical deployment needs.
Please contact me via:
Email: tsliang2001@gmail.com or sliang57@connect.hku.hk or liangshuang@whu.edu.cn
You may also follow my WeChat Official Account @Teemo.log. It is a place where I share daily updates and personal thoughts. Articles from my WeChat Official Account are Chinese only.
What’s new:
[Oct. 30th, 2025] 🎉 Our work SDPose-OOD is getting noticed!: A big shout-out to the community developers who made a ComfyUI node for SDPose-OOD, making it even easier to integrate into creative workflows. 🙌 Try it out here: ComfyUI Node SDPose-OOD.
[Oct. 14th, 2025] 🚀 Open-source of SDPose: Major code and model release now available: GitHub Repository | HF Model (Body) | HF Model (WholeBody).
[Sep. 24th, 2025] 🧑💻 New paper release: Check out our new work SDPose on exploiting the diffusion priors for OOD and robust pose estimation. I'm sooooo excited to share this work. Thank Dr. Guo Zhang, Professor Yingcong Chen, and Professor Yuan Yuan for their invaluable guidance.
[Sep. 1st, 2025] 🍻 IEDM '25: One paper accepted by IEDM 2025. Thank Professor Han Wang, Professor Aoyang Zhang, and Professor Zhongrui Wang for their invaluable guidance, and thank Songqi and Jichang for the smooth collaboration.
[Jan. 9th, 2025] 🍻 Optica Optics Express '25: One paper for my undergraduate research was accepted by Optics Express. Thank Professor Zhang for his invaluable guidance, and thank Yuze and Haimu for their collaboration and support.
[Oct. 2nd, 2024] ✈️ Enrollment@HKU: New journey started. I began my postgraduate research study at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong.
[June 22nd, 2024] 🎓 Graduation@WHU: Received my Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Wuhan University. I am grateful to have received guidance and enlightenment in computational physics and AI4Sci from Prof. Shengjun Yuan, and guidance in experimental optoelectronics from Prof. Shunping Zhang during my undergraduate studies.
[Feb. 2nd, 2024] 🧑💻 Internship@Rama Alpaca: I started as an MLE research intern at Beijing Rama Alpaca Co. Ltd. in the spring semester under the supervision of Dr. Guo Zhang from MIT, collaborating with Prof. Yingcong Chen at HKUST and Prof. Yuan Yuan at Boston College.
[Feb. 9th, 2023] 🧑💻 Research@CPCS-WHU: I've joined Prof. Shengjun Yuan's group at Wuhan University as a research assistant this semester.
[Feb. 14th, 2022] 🔬 Research@Xu Lab-WHU: I've joined Prof. Shunping Zhang's lab at Wuhan University for undergraduate research.
Education
![]() | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Research: Computer Vision, Representation Learning, Hardware Acceleration. (Oct. 2024 - Present) |
![]() | School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University. B.S. in Physics Research: Condensed Matter Physics Experiment, AI for Computational Physics. Dissertation: Constructing Tight-binding Model Based on Deep Learning (Sept. 2020 - Jun. 2024) |
Featured Publications
First-author and co-first-author works are highlighted below. For the full list, please refer to the Publication section or my Google Scholar.
†These authors contributed equally. *Corresponding author.
Featured Open-source Projects (Github)
| SDPose: Exploiting Diffusion Priors for Out-of-Domain and Robust Pose Estimation |
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Selected Honors
| Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis at Wuhan University (Top 5%, in the School of Physics and Technology). | 2024 |
| First Class Scholarship (Top 5%, for academic excellence) by Wuhan University. | 2021 |
Teaching and Review Services
| Teaching Assistant, ENGG1330 Computer Programming I, HKU | 2025 Spring |
| Teaching Assistant, ELEC3644 Advanced Mobile Apps Development, HKU | 2025 Fall |
Selected Outreach and Service (Undergraduate)
| Publicity Ambassador (Henan Province), Admission Office, Undergraduate College, Wuhan University | Sept. 2021 - Jun. 2024 |
| Minister, Department of Press and Publicity, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University | July 2021 - July 2022 |
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Interesting Facts About Myself
- In Chinese context, my name has the same meaning as the word "cool", referring to the pleasant weather of the season I was born. It is also a somewhat girly name, so people often mistake me as a girl before meeting me. My preferred name is Tim, which is my English name but not part of my legal name.
- I spent my childhood and adolescence along the majestic Yellow River, where the waters whispered tales of ancient civilizations. My college years unfolded beside the mighty Yangtze River, a flowing testament to China's enduring spirit and progress. Now, I find myself working beside the vibrant Pearl River, where the currents echo the pulse of modernity and innovation.
- Music takes up most of my free time. I listen to a wide range of styles, including country, J-rock, and Chinese folk, almost anything centered on guitar. I also enjoy pop, hip-hop, and EDM. I am a big fan of Taylor Swift, Adele, Billie Eilish, and Beyonce, and I am always happy to talk about music across different genres.
- During my undergraduate years at WHU, I also cultivated a deep passion for Chinese debate. I served as the captain of the School of Physics debate team (Class of 2020) and took the lead in organizing the "Xunli Debate" (寻理杯) competition during my time on campus.


