Two CDS PhD students awarded research grants and scholarship
Two PhD students from the School of Computing and Data Science have been awarded research grants and scholarship.
Mr Lihe Yang has received the ByteDance Scholarship, an annual programme initiated by ByteDance in 2021. This scholarship provides each winning student with a prize of around RMB 100,000 and its equivalent scholarship, along with the opportunity to join their internal research programmes. Mr Yang’s research focuses on vision foundation model and data-centric AI.
Mr Xi Chen is awarded the NSFC Young Student Basic Research Programme (PhD candidate) (2024国家自然科学基金青年学生基础研究项目（博士研究生）), which will fund his applied research project. Mr. Chen's work centres on deep learning and computer vision, with a particular emphasis on generative AI, including image/video generation/editing.