Breeze

Baiyu Chen (Breeze) 陈柏宇

PhD Student @ CRUISE - UNSW

Short Bio:

Baiyu Chen (Breeze) is a PhD candidate at CRUISE Research Group, UNSW Sydney, advised by Prof. Flora Salim and Dr. Benjamin Tag. He is also a research student member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Previously, he was a visiting student researcher at Tsinghua University, collaborating with A/Prof. Yuntao Wang. Baiyu received his Master's degree from UNSW Sydney, advised by Prof. Flora Salim, Dr. Hao Xue, and Prof. Daniel Angus.

Baiyu's research interests lie in multimodal learning and human-centered AI, with a recent focus on egocentric multimodal intelligence for modeling human behavior, context, intention, and action toward proactive AI and physical-world models that support people in everyday life, health, and wellbeing.

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News

  • 10/2026: Excited to receive the competitive Scientia PhD Global Mobility Grant (AU$20,000) from UNSW Sydney!
  • 09/2026: Excited that our work AnyMo has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026! See you in Sydney 🇦🇺!
  • 09/2026: Excited to join the UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health as a Research Software Engineer, working on LLMs for health and electronic medical record (EMR) data.
  • 06/2026: I am serving as a Social Media Chair for the UbiSense 2026 Workshop at UbiComp/ISWC 2026. We welcome work exploring the emerging intersection of agentic AI and ubiquitous sensing. Check out our CFP!
  • 05/2026: Excited to release our latest work AnyMo, a comprehensive framework for wearable motion understanding, covering synthetic IMU generation, geometry-aware pre-training, motion-language alignment, data resources and a new benchmark.
  • 05/2026: I am serving as a organizer for the 2nd DiversityOne Open Challenge at UbiComp/ISWC 2026. We welcome submissions exploring diversity in everyday life behavior with mobile sensing data! Check out our CFP!
  • 05/2026: "When Ads Become Profiles" was featured in UNSW Newsroom and other media including CHOICE, the longest-running and largest consumer advocacy organisation in Australia!
  • 04/2026: ZARA is accepted by ACL 2026 Main (Oral)! See you in San Diego 🇺🇸!
  • 04/2026: COMODO is accepted by IMWUT / UbiComp 2026! See you in Shanghai 🇨🇳!
  • 01/2026: "When Ads Become Profiles" paper is accepted by WWW 2026! See you in Dubai 🇦🇪! See you online 😭.
  • 09/2025: Started my PhD journey at UNSW Sydney, supervised by Prof. Flora Salim and Dr. Benjamin Tag.
  • 08/2025: Visiting A/Prof. Yuntao Wang at Tsinghua University.
  • 08/2025: Received the Master of Information Technology with Excellence at UNSW Sydney with a High Distinction WAM.
  • 07/2025: We won 3rd Place (US$1,500) at KDD Cup 2025, Meta Comprehensive RAG Multi-modal, Multi-turn (CRAG-MM) Challenge, Task 1: Single-source Augmentation! Thanks to the organizers for the invitation to present our solution and publish a paper at the KDD 2025 CRAG-MM Workshop.
  • 07/2025: Attending the IVE 2025 Winter School on AI for XR at the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments, University of South Australia, see you in Adelaide!
  • 07/2025: Attending the ADM+S Symposium 2025 at the University of Queensland, see you in Brisbane!
  • 12/2024: We won the Judges' (1st) Prize (AU$5,000 Research Project Grant) at ADM+S Hackathon 2024: Recommender Systems for Public Service Media, hosted at the University of Melbourne!
  • 10/2024: Becoming a research student member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).