About Me

Hi! I’m Chengwei Qin, currently an Assistant Professor in Thrust of Artificial Intelligence at HKUST(GZ), leading the HKUST(GZ) NLP group. I am also an Affiliated Assistant Professor at HKUST. I obtained my Ph.D. from the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), advised by Prof. Shafiq Joty and Prof. Aixin Sun. Before that, I graduated from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, supervised by Prof. Zhiyuan Liu.

My research primarily focuses on LLM reasoning, efficient learning (including both data and parameter efficiency), and multimodality. Feel free to reach out to chengweiqin@hkust-gz.edu.cn or qcwthu@gmail.com if you have anything you would like to discuss.

To prospective students: Please include “[Enrolling Year] Prospective Student - PhD/Postdoc/RA/Visiting Student” in the subject line of your email.

News

Apr 2025: I start my journey at AI Thrust, HKUST(GZ).

Apr 2025: We have one good survey to track the frontiers in LLM reasoning, check it here.

Awards

Outstanding Paper Awards, EMNLP 2024

Area Chair Awards, ACL 2023

4th Place, CAIL 2021 (Legal Case Retrieval)

Gold Medal (Top 0.5%), Kaggle CommonLit Readability Prize

Outstanding Graduate Award, Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University

Other Experience

I’ve had the opportunity to intern at several leading tech companies in the Bay Area, including Meta and AWS. I’m deeply grateful to my colleagues for the invaluable experiences and collaborations during these internships.

Hobby

Elliptical trainer, pool, and FPS games