Wang Yuqi § 1 · ABOUT
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Wang Yuqi

I am an undergraduate working on World Models and Spatial Reasoning. The question that gets me out of bed every day: What representations do AI need to truly understand the physical world? I am ready to be wrong about it for years during my PhD.
EDU B.S. CS PolyU '27 · PUB ICML26 (co-first) · In-Major CGPA 3.94 · Email tony-yuqi.wang@connect.polyu.hk
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Bio

"I care about representations that generalize and projects worth polishing."

I'm a final-year undergraduate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, supervised by Prof. Bing Wang. I am interested in what representations AI need to understand and reason about the physical world. To date, I have explored this question through spatial reasoning via explicit scene graphs, and world models where latent structure naturally emerges. I hope to develop models that support 3D perception, prediction, and reasoning.

When it comes to projects, I treat each and every of them as a work of art, a few of which I am proud of; a full list can be found in my github repo. Outside of university, I enjoy filming and video production. I once grew a channel past 100K subscribers. I have also independently produced a documentary and an AI short film, with the latter winning an award at the 15th Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF).

I'm applying to PhD programs starting Fall 2027. I look forward to exploring questions surrounding spatial understanding in greater depth.

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Timeline

2026
One paper accepted to ICML 2026
PUBLISHED P-2026-05
2024
Started Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scheme (URIS), supervised by Prof. Bing Wang.
HK PolyU URIS Program
2023
Began undergraduate studies at PolyU.
HK PolyU
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Selected research

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Selected projects

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Diagram of Double Ratchet algorithm used in Veracity Messenger. §3.04
2026 co-lead
systems complete
Veracity: End-to-end Encrypted Messaging with Forward Secrecy and Post-Compromise Security
Yuqi Wang*, Xikun Yang*, Jinkun Yang , ...

Desktop E2EE messenger implementing full Signal cryptographic stack (e.g., X3DH and Double Ratchet) totalling ~20,000 lines of code. Security properties are formally verified using TLA+ and Alloy, with in-transit ciphertext validated against the NIST 800-22 statistical test suite. This as a course project that far exceeded baseline requirements.

Accuracy-latency scatter plot for AIoT dispatcher evaluation §3.05
2026 sole
systems complete
Towards Optimal Dispatch in AIoT Inference
Yuqi Wang

Explores the accuracy-latency Pareto frontier in AIoT systems. Existing dispatchers sacrifice one for the other. I implement Lyapunov drift-plus-penalty with auto-tuned V and a time-quantized dynamic programming planner that jointly optimize over the decision space. The DP planner pushes the Pareto frontier furthest, achieving near full-model accuracy with under 1% deadline misses across all tested arrival patterns.

Feature engineering and foundation model stacking evaluation chart §3.07
2025 lead
ml complete
Feature Engineering and Foundation Model Stacking
Yuqi Wang, Haoqian Du, Haoyang Du

Empirically investigated whether pretrained foundation models obsolete both classical methods and manual feature engineering on tabular data. Through comprehensive ablations, our findings: they do, and the best preprocessing is none at all. We also managed achieved Top-10 result on Kaggle's House Price Prediction challenge.

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