Experience & Honors & Awards

General Information

Full Name Guanchen DING
Languages Chinese, English

Education

  • 2023 - Present
    Ph.D. Candidate
    Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    • Advisor: Prof. Changwen Chen
  • 2020 - 2023
    Master's Degree
    School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University
    • Advisor: Prof. Zhenzhong Chen
  • 2016 - 2020
    Bachelor's Degree
    School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University
    • Advisor: Prof. Zhenzhong Chen
  • 2017 - 2020
    Minor Degree
    School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University

Experience

  • 2022.08 - 2023.02
    Research Assistant
    Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research Projects

  • 2023 - Present
    Visual Semantic Communication
    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    • SNR- and bandwidth-adaptive neural joint source-channel coding
    • Compact structured evidence for traffic-scene reasoning
    • Exact-rate progressive JSCC for dense scene understanding
  • 2022 - Present
    Visual Representation, Compression, and Generalization
    • Bidirectional temporal alignment for learned video rescaling
    • Neural rate control for JPEG-AI
    • Uncertainty-aware domain generalization for crowd and remote-sensing object counting
  • 2019 - 2021
    Earlier Computer Vision Projects
    • Object counting, detection, tracking, and abnormal-event recognition for surveillance and V2X applications
    • Cross-domain robustness for crowd and remote-sensing visual analysis

Academic Service and Teaching

  • Reviewer
    IEEE TIP, TCSVT, and TGRS; ISPRS; NeurIPS 2026; ACM Multimedia 2024, 2025, and 2026; ICASSP 2025
  • 2025/26
    Teaching Assistant, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    COMP3422 Creative Digital Media Design; COMP3424 Digital Twins - Simulation and Case Studies
  • 2024/25
    Teaching Assistant, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    COMP1002 Computational Thinking and Problem Solving; COMP6706 Advanced Topics in Visual Computing
  • 2023/24
    Teaching Assistant, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    COMP3011 Design and Analysis of Algorithms; COMP5112 Data Structures and Database Systems

Honors

  • 2024
    • The Most Appreciated Teaching Assistant (MATA) Award
  • 2023 - Present
    • Presidential Ph.D. Fellowship, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • 2022
    • National Scholarship for Postgraduates
    • The First-class Scholarship of Wuhan University
  • 2021
    • The First-class Scholarship of Wuhan University
  • 2019
    • The Zhizhuo Scholarship of Wuhan University
    • The First-class Scholarship of Wuhan University
    • Merit Student of Wuhan University
    • Excellent Student Leader Award of Wuhan University
  • 2018
    • The Zhonghaida Scholarship of Wuhan University
    • The First-class Scholarship of Wuhan University
    • Merit Student of Wuhan University
    • Special Activist of Wuhan University
  • 2017
    • Excellent Youth Communist of Wuhan University

Awards