Breeze

Baiyu Chen (Breeze) 陈柏宇

PhD Student @ CRUISE - UNSW

Short Bio:

Baiyu Chen (Breeze) is a PhD student at CRUISE Research Group, UNSW Sydney, advised by Prof. Flora Salim and Dr. Benjamin Tag. He is also a visiting student researcher at Tsinghua University, collaborating with A/Prof. Yuntao Wang, and a research student member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). 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 across wearable and mobile contexts 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

  • 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$1500) 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$5000 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).