I am Qi Deng, a PhD student in Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). My supervisors are A/Prof. Aaron Chen and Prof. Yi Mei. My research focuses on reinforcement learning, combinatorial optimization, multimodal machine learning, and game theory, which are the tangible expressions of my passion for realizing artificial general intelligence. My research vision is to develop intelligent agents capable of learning, reasoning, and coordinating effectively in complex environments.
Previously, I earned my Master’s degree in Computer Technology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and my Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering at Chengdu University of Information Technology (CUIT).
Educations
- Oct. 2025 - Present: Ph.D. in Computer Science at School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington.
- Sep. 2022 - Jun. 2025: M.Eng. in Computer Technology at School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
- Sep. 2018- Jun. 2022: B.Eng. in Software Engineering at School of Software Engineering, Chengdu University of Information Technology.
Selected Publications
Hierarchical Fusion Framework for Multimodal Dialogue Response Generation
Qi Deng, Lijun Wu, Kaile Su, Wei Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Weiwei Duan
2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
Qi Deng, Lijun Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Kaile Su, Wei Wu, Weiwei Duan
Applied Intelligence, 2025
Honors and Awards
- 3 times in 2022-2025: Academic Scholarship of UESTC (including Freshmen Scholarship) [certificate]
- May 2025: Outstanding Graduate of UESTC [certificate]
- Nov. 2024: Excellent Postgraduate Student of UESTC [certificate]
- May 2024: Travel Grant, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for IEEE WCCI 2024 [certificate]
- Mar. 2024: The Second Prize in CCF China CAT National Algorithm Elite Competition [certificate]
- Nov. 2023: Volunteer of Tsinghua University Press Cup College Student Algorithm Competition [certificate]
- Oct. 2023: The Bronze Medal in China Collegiate Algorithm Design & Programming Challenge Contest (Autumn 2023) [certificate]
- Oct. 2023: The Excellent Award in 9th China Postgraduate Intelligent City Technology and Design Competition [certificate]
- Aug. 2023: The Certificate of “Tencent Rhino-bird Open-source Training Program” project [certificate]
- Jul. 2023: The Sibo Award of National Campus Creativity Competition of China National Petroleum Corporation [certificate]
- Jun. 2023: The Bronze Medal in China Collegiate Algorithm Design & Programming Challenge Contest (Spring 2023) [certificate]
- 4 times in 2018-2022: Academic Scholarship of CUIT [certificate]
- Dec. 2021: Outstanding Graduate of CUIT [certificate]
- Dec. 2021: Merit Student of CUIT [certificate]
- Dec. 2021: As the class monitor, I led our class to achieve the title of ‘Excellent Class’ at CUIT [certificate]
- May 2021: Youth Role Model of CUIT (top 0.5%) [certificate]
- Dec. 2020: Comprehensive Quality A Certificate of Sichuan Province [certificate]
- Jun. 2020: Special Prize Team of Summer Rural Social Practice [certificate]
- Nov. 2019: Excellent Student Leaders of CUIT [certificate]
- Apr. 2019: Excellent Volunteer of 2019 National Meteorological Science Exposition Competition [certificate]
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Experience
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Teaching Assistant for undergraduate course AIML339 “Artificial Intelligence Project”
Victoria University of Wellington, Jul. 2026 - Nov. 2026
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Teaching Assistant for undergraduate course COMP361 “Design and Analysis of Algorithms”
Victoria University of Wellington, Feb. 2026 - Jun. 2026
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Teaching Assistant for graduate course “Formal Methods”
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sep. 2023 - Jan. 2024
Academic Service
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Conference Reviewing
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Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
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International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
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Journal Reviewing
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Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Expert Systems With Applications
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International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications
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