Incoming PhD Student in Computer Science · 2027-

Wei Li (William)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University × Beijing Zhongguancun Academy

I am an undergraduate in Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai University (2023–2027). In 2027, I will join Shanghai Jiao Tong University × Beijing Zhongguancun Academy as a PhD student.

I study how to learn from structured and temporal data, with a focus on forecasting, clustering, and generation under heterogeneity and uncertainty.

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Selected Publications

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News

  • Awarded the National Scholarship and the Baosteel Scholarship.
  • SDFlow accepted for Poster Presentation at NeurIPS 2026 (CCF-A).
  • APCL accepted to KDD 2026 (CCF-A) and presented as a poster. Read the paper story →
  • Won International First Prize at ASC26.
  • One full paper (ClusterPatchTST) accepted for Oral Presentation at DASFAA 2026 (CCF-B).
  • Advanced to the finals of the ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge.
  • Two papers (ScatterFusion, AWGFormer) accepted for Poster Presentation at ICASSP 2026 (CCF-B).
  • Awarded the Xiaomi Scholarship.
  • Awarded the Shanghai Scholarship after a year that included ranking #1 in GPA, publishing four first-author papers at CCF-C ranked conferences, and winning multiple national programming contest awards.
  • Awarded First Prize in the Baidu Star Programming Contest - Talent Track and MaTiBei Collegiate Programming Contest.
  • Two papers (SWIFT, TimeFlowDiffuser) accepted for Oral Presentation at ICANN 2025 (CCF-C).
  • Two papers (LWSpace, EnergyPatchTST) accepted for Oral Presentation at ICIC 2025 (CCF-C).
  • The self-developed CCF-Online academic conference portal is now live.
  • Awarded Second Prize in the 'E-Cloud Cup' Shanghai Collegiate Cloud Computing Application Contest.
  • Awarded Gold Medal in the university-level China 'Internet+' Innovation Competition.

Experience

  • Long Time-Series Generation

    Research

    Research Collaboration | Advisors: Prof. Peilin Zhao (SJTU) & Dr. Shibo Feng (NTU)

    Oct 2025 – Sep 2026

    • Co-led SDFlow (NeurIPS 2026) as first-listed co-first author: similarity-driven, non-autoregressive Flow Matching in a low-rank VQ latent space for long-horizon generation.
    • Extending the line to multiscale discrete representations and long-sequence generation, covering method design, implementation, and evaluation.

  • LLM-Based Multimodal Time-Series Alignment

    Research

    Research Collaboration | Advisors: Prof. Xiaofan Li (Nanjing University) & Dr. Jingge Xiao (Leibniz University Hannover)

    Feb 2026 – Sep 2026

    • Co-leading work on text-conditioned time-series generation: semantic prototype retrieval, latent-space localization, and residual Flow Matching (manuscript under review).

  • Pattern Recognition & Machine Learning

    Research

    Research Study | Mentor: Prof. Yuchun Fang (Shanghai University)

    Oct 2025 – Sep 2026

    • Studying pattern recognition and machine learning, with a focus on sign-language recognition, sequence modeling, and transferring time-series methods.

  • Time-Series Forecasting & Deep Learning

    Research

    Research Study | Mentor: Prof. Fenglei Yang (Shanghai University)

    Jan 2024 – Aug 2024

    • Worked on multiscale forecasting with SSM and Transformer architectures, building the modeling, experimentation, and writing foundation for later work such as EnergyPatchTST (ICIC 2025).

  • Cultural Heritage Data Management

    Research

    Undergraduate Researcher | Key Laboratory of Silicate Cultural Heritage Protection, Shanghai University | Advisor: Prof. Shunbo Hu

    Mar 2024 – Sep 2026

    • Developed a specialized database using MySQL and Streamlit for managing cultural heritage data (Buddhist head sculptures).
    • Participated in data analysis and management tasks related to cultural relic preservation.

  • LLM Capability Enhancement & Alignment

    Part-time

    ByteDance | Xpert Program

    Aug 2025 – Present

    • Contribute to supervised fine-tuning and model evaluation for reasoning, search, tool use, and safety alignment.

Projects & Systems

  • 'CCF-Online' Academic Conference Portal

    Independently developed and deployed an online portal that scrapes and integrates data from multiple sources to provide researchers with efficient access to academic conference information.

    Independent ProjectScrapyJavaScript
    Live demo

  • SHU Prophet: An Intelligent Time-Series Forecasting & Decision Platform

    Engineered 'SHU Prophet,' a full-stack intelligent platform for advanced time-series analysis. This project integrates a suite of self-developed models with an interactive AI Agent (LangChain & LLM) to automate data analysis, generate insightful reports, and bridge the gap between complex algorithms and intuitive decision-making.

    Time Series ForecastingFull-StackAI AgentLangChainVue.jsPythonFlaskECharts
    Code

  • Cloud-based Automated Course Selection System

    Led the development of a cloud-hosted system that automates the course selection process, featuring an LLM-based sentiment analysis module for course reviews. Award-winning project.

    Project LeadFlaskPlaywrightCloud Computing

  • Cultural Heritage Database System

    Developed a digital management platform for the University's Key Laboratory of Silicate Cultural Heritage, supporting multi-source data entry, retrieval, and visualization.

    Database DesignMySQLData Visualization

  • Smart Parking IoT Platform

    Designed and built a full-stack IoT parking solution, enabling real-time parking availability queries, reservations, and payments. Awarded Gold Medal at a university innovation competition.

    IoTFull-StackPythonFlask

  • Research on Product Assembly Strategy Optimization

    Led a research project applying Bayesian decision networks and genetic algorithms to optimize complex assembly strategies for products with variable components and processes.

    OptimizationBayesian NetworksGenetic Algorithms

Awards & Honors

  • National ScholarshipMinistry of Education of China
  • Baosteel ScholarshipShanghai University
  • ASC Student Supercomputer ChallengeInternational First Prize
  • Xiaomi ScholarshipXiaomi
  • Baidu Star Programming ContestFinalist
  • Special Class Scholarship for Academic ExcellenceShanghai University (Top-tier)
  • Shanghai ScholarshipShanghai
  • Baidu Star Programming Contest - Talent TrackNational First Prize
  • MaTiBei Collegiate Programming ContestNational First Prize
  • Information Security and Countermeasures ContestNational Second Prize
  • 'Jie-Yi' Student Leadership ScholarshipSchool of Computer Engineering and Science
  • 'E-Cloud Cup' Shanghai Collegiate Cloud Computing Application ContestSecond Prize
  • Special Class Scholarship for Academic ExcellenceShanghai University (Top-tier)
  • Undergraduate Academic ForumSecond Prize
  • China 'Internet+' Innovation CompetitionGold Medal (University Level)

Service & Talks

  • Academic Service

    • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2027)Reviewer (Invited)
    • Frontiers in Physics (Interdisciplinary Physics)Reviewer
    • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026)Ethics Reviewer (Invited)
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    • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2027)Program Committee Member / Reviewer (Invited)
    • Neural Networks (Q1, CCF-B)Reviewer (Invited)
    • Ain Shams Engineering Journal (Q1)Reviewer (Invited)
    • International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2026)Reviewer (Invited)
    • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026)Reviewer
    • International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2025)Reviewer (3 submissions)

  • Talks & Presentations

    • Poster Presentation at KDD 2026Presented "APCL"
    • Oral Presentation at DASFAA 2026Presented "ClusterPatchTST"
    • Poster Presentation at ICASSP 2026Presented "ScatterFusion" and "AWGformer"
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    • Oral Presentation at ICANN 2025Presented "TimeFlowDiffuser" and "SWIFT"
    • Oral Presentation at ICIC 2025Presented "LWSpace" and "EnergyPatchTST"
    • Grade meetingInvited Speaker on academic and research journey

  • Leadership & University Service

    • Head of Management Dept., School Youth League CommitteeSchool
    • Class League Branch SecretaryShanghai University