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Education

• University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study)
  M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Sep. 2023 – Jun. 2026 (expected)
  GPA: 3.76 / 4.0
  Selected Coursework: Natural Language Processing; Advanced AI; Multimedia Processing; Algorithm Design & Analysis
  Research Interests: LLM-based agents; multimodal reasoning; cross-modal alignment; affective computing

• Civil Aviation University of China
  B.S. in Transportation, Sep. 2015 – Jun. 2019

Research & Engineering Projects

• Multimodal Empathetic Dialogue System for Social-AI Interaction (2024 – Present)
  • Designed & developed a persona-aware multimodal agent integrating vision, audio, and text, achieving superior perceived empathy over SOTA models (GPT-4, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen).
  • Led visual processing and vision–text fusion, implementing cross-modal alignment and dynamic emotion recognition.
  • Outcomes: IEEE TAFFC manuscript + granted Chinese patent, foundational for subsequent depression detection research.
• Zhejiang Vanguard Project: Digital Therapeutics for Depression Detection (2024 – Present)
  • Developed visual biomarker extraction system for low-resource depression detection.
  • Designed HOPE hierarchical multimodal fusion framework for robust vision–language integration.
  • Achieved 1st Place (94.51% accuracy) in ACM MM 2025 MPDD Grand Challenge (Young Adult Track); lead author of accepted ACM MM 2025 paper.
• Data-Driven Aviation Analytics and Risk Modeling (2020 – 2023)
  • Proposed complex network risk propagation model, published as EI-indexed journal article, later awarded Frontrunner 5000 Top Article (2023).
  • Built Django+SQL automation platform for flight delay/fault analytics, reducing report time by 85%, adopted across multiple departments at China Southern Airlines.
  • Transitioned from aviation to advanced data-driven analytics.

Professional Experience

• Data Analyst, Airlines Operations Center, China Southern Airlines (Sep. 2019 – May 2023)
  • Analyzed flight operation data and developed analytics tools with Python/MySQL.
  • Automated dashboards with Tableau/QuickBI, reducing manual reporting time by 70%+.
  • Led projects in data integration and scheduling automation, improving operational efficiency.
• Lab Coordinator & Administrator, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS (Sep. 2023 – Present)
  • Oversaw lab operations: onboarding, event organization, GPU server management.
  • Managed equipment procurement, budget tracking, and reimbursements for smooth execution.

Skills Summary

• Core Research Skills: LLM/VLM fine-tuning (LoRA, adapter tuning); multimodal alignment (Video-LLaVA, CLIP); Chain-of-Thought reasoning; prompt engineering; affective computing; conversational agent design; model design for low-resource settings.
• Programming & Frameworks: Python, PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers, SQL, C++.
• Engineering & Deployment: API integration, Django, scalable inference, full-stack pipelines, model serving, Tableau, QuickBI.
• Languages: English (fluent, CET-6: 507), Mandarin (native).

Publications

HOPE: Hierarchical Fusion for Optimized and Personality-Aware Estimation of Depression

Hanlei Shi*, Yu Liu*, et al. (2025). "HOPE: Hierarchical Fusion for Optimized and Personality-Aware Estimation of Depression." In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM '25). DOI: 10.1145/3746027.3762063.

From Coarse to Nuanced: Cross-Modal Alignment of Fine-Grained Linguistic Cues and Visual Salient Regions for Dynamic Emotion Recognition

Yu Liu, Leyuan Qu, Hanlei Shi, Di Gao, Yuhua Zheng, and Taihao Li. (2025). "From Coarse to Nuanced: Cross-Modal Alignment of Fine-Grained Linguistic Cues and Visual Salient Regions for Dynamic Emotion Recognition." arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.11892. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11892.

Flight Operation Risk Propagation Analysis based on Complex Networks.（基于复杂网络的航班运行风险传播分析）

王岩韬, 刘毓. (2020). "基于复杂网络的航班运行风险传播分析." 交通运输系统工程与信息, 20(1), 198–205. Available at: DOI.

Honors & Awards

• Frontrunner 5000: Top Articles in Outstanding S&T Journals of China (2023) — “Flight Operation Risk Propagation Analysis Based on Complex Networks”
  Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC), Sep. 2024

• Merit Student, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS (2025)

• Second-Class Scholarship (University Level), Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS (2023–2024)

• Excellent Award, 2nd China Southern Airlines Innovation Challenge, China Southern Airlines (Sep. 2021)

• Outstanding Young Innovator, Airlines Operations Center (Feb. 2021)

• Outstanding Newcomer (Cohort 2019), Airlines Operations Center (Aug. 2020)

• Third-Class Scholarship (University Level), Civil Aviation University of China (2016–2017)