Portrait of Weilin RUAN

Weilin RUAN (阮炜霖)

PhD Student @ CUHK CSE 香港中文大学计算机科学与工程系博士生

MPhil Student @ HKUST(GZ) 香港科技大学(广州)哲学硕士

Bachelor of Engineering @ Jinan University 暨南大学工学学士

I am a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supervised by Prof. James Cheng, jointly trained with Knowin AI Inc. (Shenzhen). I received my MPhil from HKUST(GZ) supervised by Prof. Yuxuan Liang.

My research interests include Spatio-Temporal World/Action Models, Embodied Foundation Models, Data Generation & Verification, and AI Systems Infrastructure. My previous research experience spans Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, Time Series Forecasting, and Multi-Modal Learning.

我是香港中文大学(CUHK)计算机科学与工程系博士生,师从Prof. James Cheng,并与深圳市知见智能科技有限公司(Knowin AI)联合培养。我于香港科技大学(广州)取得哲学硕士学位,师从梁宇轩教授(Prof. Yuxuan Liang)。

我的研究兴趣包括时空世界/动作模型、具身基础模型、数据生成与验证,以及 AI 系统基础设施;此前研究经历涵盖时空数据挖掘、时间序列预测和多模态学习。

Education

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Computer Science and Engineering
    香港中文大学 - 计算机科学与工程系
    Supervised by Prof. James Cheng | Joint training with Knowin AI 导师:Prof. James Cheng|与知见智能联合培养
    Aug 2026 - Present 2026年8月 - 至今
  • HKUST(GZ) - Information Hub - Data Science and Analysis
    香港科技大学(广州) - 信息枢纽 - 数据科学与分析
    Supervised by Prof. Yuxuan Liang @ CityMind Lab 导师:梁宇轩教授|CityMind Lab
    Sep 2024 - Jun 2026 2024年9月 - 2026年6月
  • Jinan University - Computer Science Department - Network Engineering
    暨南大学 - 计算机科学系 - 网络工程
    Sep 2020 - Jun 2024 2020年9月 - 2024年6月

Latest News

  • Paper Acceptance - One paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2026. 论文录用 - 一篇论文被 NeurIPS 2026 录用。
    September 2026 2026年9月
  • Competition Award - Team VeriLens received the Silver Award (Rank 3) in Track 2: General AIGC Audio-Video Detection at DDL 2.0, IJCAI-ECAI 2026 AI Safety Workshop. 竞赛获奖 - VeriLens 团队在 IJCAI-ECAI 2026 AI Safety Workshop DDL 2.0 Track 2: General AIGC Audio-Video Detection 中获得 Silver Award(Rank 3)。
    August 2026 2026年8月
  • Academic Service - Appointed as a reviewer for IEEE TPAMI. 学术服务 - 受邀担任 IEEE TPAMI 审稿人。
    August 2026 2026年8月
  • Paper Acceptance - One paper was accepted to CIKM 2026. 论文录用 - 一篇论文被 CIKM 2026 录用。
    August 2026 2026年8月
  • New Preprint - GenRouter: Unified Workflow Routing for Agentic Image Generation is available on Hugging Face Papers and arXiv. 新预印本 - 合作论文 GenRouter: Unified Workflow Routing for Agentic Image Generation 已发布于 Hugging Face Papers 和 arXiv。
    August 2026 2026年8月
  • Citation Milestone - Google Scholar citations reached 200+. 引用里程碑 - Google Scholar 引用量达到 200+。
    August 2026 2026年8月
  • Paper Acceptance - One paper was accepted to ACM MM 2026. 论文录用 - 一篇论文被 ACM MM 2026 录用。
    July 2026 2026年7月
  • Paper Acceptance - One paper was accepted to KDD 2026. 论文录用 - 一篇论文被 KDD 2026 录用。
    May 2026 2026年5月
  • Citation Milestone - Google Scholar citations reached 100+. 引用里程碑 - Google Scholar 引用量达到 100+。
    March 2026 2026年3月
  • Paper Acceptance - One paper was accepted to the ICLR 2026 HCAIR Workshop. 论文录用 - 一篇论文被 ICLR 2026 HCAIR Workshop 录用。
    March 2026 2026年3月
  • New Preprint - MAS4TS: Visual Reasoning over Time Series via Multi-Agent System is available on arXiv and under review. 新预印本 - 预印本 MAS4TS: Visual Reasoning over Time Series via Multi-Agent System 已发布于 arXiv,目前正在审稿。
    February 2026 2026年2月
  • Paper Acceptance - Two papers were accepted to AAAI 2026. 论文录用 - 两篇论文被 AAAI 2026 录用。
    November 2025 2025年11月
  • Reviewer Appointment - Appointed as a reviewer for ICLR 2026. 审稿工作 - 受邀担任 ICLR 2026 审稿人。
    September 2025 2025年9月
  • New Position - Joined Knowin AI Inc. as an Algorithm Researcher. 新职位 - 加入知见智能(Knowin AI),担任算法研究员。
    September 2025 2025年9月
  • Paper Acceptance - A paper on traffic flow forecasting was accepted to IEEE T-ITS. 论文录用 - 一篇交通流预测论文被 IEEE T-ITS 录用。
    August 2025 2025年8月
  • Program Committee - Invited to serve as a Program Committee member for AAAI 2026. 程序委员会 - 受邀担任 AAAI 2026 程序委员会委员。
    July 2025 2025年7月
  • Paper Acceptance - One paper was accepted to the ICCV 2025 Workshop. 论文录用 - 一篇论文被 ICCV 2025 Workshop 录用。
    July 2025 2025年7月
  • Paper Acceptance - A paper on multimodal building electricity load forecasting was accepted to ACM MM 2025. 论文录用 - 一篇多模态建筑电力负荷预测论文被 ACM MM 2025 录用。
    July 2025 2025年7月
  • Paper Acceptance - A paper on urban heat island effect forecasting was accepted to KDD 2025. 论文录用 - 一篇城市热岛效应预测论文被 KDD 2025 录用。
    May 2025 2025年5月
  • Paper Acceptance - A paper on spatio-temporal forecasting was accepted to ECML-PKDD 2025. 论文录用 - 一篇时空预测论文被 ECML-PKDD 2025 录用。
    May 2025 2025年5月
  • Paper Acceptance - A paper on multimodal time-series forecasting was accepted to ICML 2025. 论文录用 - 一篇多模态时间序列预测论文被 ICML 2025 录用。
    May 2025 2025年5月
  • Program Committee - Invited to serve as a Program Committee member for WebST 2025. 程序委员会 - 受邀担任 WebST 2025 程序委员会委员。
    January 2025 2025年1月
  • Reviewer Appointment - Appointed as a reviewer for IJCNN and ICASSP. 审稿工作 - 受邀担任 IJCNN 与 ICASSP 审稿人。
    December 2024 2024年12月
  • Outstanding Graduate - Named an Outstanding Graduate of the Department of Information Science and Technology at Jinan University. 优秀毕业生 - 获评暨南大学信息科学技术学院优秀毕业生。
    June 2024 2024年6月
  • Research Internship - Joined the CityMind team as a research intern supervised by Prof. Yuxuan Liang. 科研实习 - 加入 CityMind Lab 开展科研实习,导师为梁宇轩教授。
    August 2023 2023年8月
  • RBCC Achievement - Recognized as an Outstanding Camper at the in-person RBCC program held at HKUST(GZ). RBCC 荣誉 - 参加香港科技大学(广州)线下 RBCC 项目,并获评优秀营员。
    July 2023 2023年7月

Pinned Publications

Anvil: Scaling Embodied Spatial Intelligence through Knowledge Recirculation Pinned

Weilin Ruan, Bohan Zhou, Jinghao Li, Yangkai Wei, Wenqian Li, Peiran Dong, Yingjie Xu, Leyi Wu, Haojian Huang, Binghui Xie, Han Yang, Kaiwen Zhou, Yinchuan Li, Ying-Cong Chen, James Cheng

arXiv. 2026

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Retrieval Augmented Spatio-Temporal Framework for Traffic Prediction Pinned

Weilin Ruan, Xilin Dang, Ziyu Zhou, Sisuo Lyu, Yuxuan Liang

AAAI. 2026

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Low-rank Adaptation for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting Pinned

Weilin Ruan, Wei Chen, Xilin Dang, Jianxiang Zhou, Weichuang Li, Xu Liu, Yuxuan Liang

ECML. 2025

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Time-VLM: Exploring Multimodal Vision-Language Models for Augmented Time Series Forecasting Pinned

Siru Zhong, Weilin Ruan, Ming Jin, Huan Li, Qingsong Wen, Yuxuan Liang

ICML. 2025

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Selected Awards

  • Silver Award (Rank 3) - DDL 2.0, IJCAI-ECAI 2026 AI Safety Workshop 银奖(第3名) - IJCAI-ECAI 2026 AI Safety Workshop DDL 2.0 2026 2026年
  • Outstanding Graduate - Jinan University 优秀毕业生 - 暨南大学 2024 2024年
  • Golden Arowana Scholarship - Jinan University 金龙鱼奖学金 - 暨南大学 2023 2023年
  • Bronze Medal - ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest 铜牌 - ICPC 国际大学生程序设计竞赛 2022 2022年

Milestones

Key progress in research and academic activities.

  • Publications 18
  • Citations 200+
  • Awards 20+
  • Blog followers 3600+

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