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Name Yiming Du
Label PhD Student | Natural Language Processing
Email ymdu@link.cuhk.edu.hk
Phone (+86) 15051862878 / (+852) 54284864
Url https://elvin-yiming-du.github.io/
Summary PhD student at CUHK working on memory-augmented LLM agents, long-term memory, and reasoning in multi-session dialogues.

Education

  • 2022.08 - 2026.08

    Hong Kong

    PhD
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    System Engineering and Engineering Management (Minor in NLP)
    • Supervisor: Prof. Kam-Fai Wong (MoE Lab)
    • Research focus: memory-augmented dialogue systems, long-term memory in LLM agents
  • 2019.08 - 2022.06

    Jiangsu, China

    M.Eng.
    Southeast University
    Computer Science & Engineering (Minor in NLP)
    • Supervisor: Prof. Gao Zhiqiang (Atur Lab)
  • 2015.08 - 2019.05

    Jiangsu, China

    B.Eng.
    Southeast University
    Computer Science & Engineering (Minor in Software Engineering)
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Machine Learning
    • Algorithm Analysis and Design
    • Natural Language Processing

Work

  • 2025.07 - Present

    Hong Kong

    Research Intern
    Huawei, Noah's Ark Lab
    Mentor: Baojun Wang.
    • Temporal Reasoning: developed an RL framework to improve temporal reasoning for LLM agents.
  • 2025.01 - 2025.06

    Edinburgh, UK

    Visiting Researcher
    The University of Edinburgh, Informatics Forum
    Supervisor: Prof. Jeff Z. Pan.
    • Personal Agent: explore parametric memory and contextual memory in personal assistants.
  • 2024.08 - 2025.01

    Shenzhen, China

    Research Intern
    SenseTime
    Mentor: Fei Tan.
    • Data Selection: explore high-quality multi-turn dialogues for SFT and RL training.
    • Multi-turn Dialogue System: developed a noise-robust SFT pipeline for Edge LLMs.
  • 2023.08 - 2024.08

    Hong Kong

    Visiting Researcher
    Huawei, Noah's Ark Lab
    Mentor: Baojun Wang.
    • Memory in LLM Dialogue System: led the creation of a memory-based LLM dialogue system with RAG framework and FAISS vector databases.
  • 2022.08 - Present

    Hong Kong

    PhD Student
    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, MoE Lab
    Supervisor: Prof. Kam-Fai Wong.
    • Memory-Augmented Agents: novel long-term memory agent with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Reinforcement Learning under multi-session dialogues.
  • 2021.08 - 2022.02

    Hong Kong

    Research Assistant
    City University of Hong Kong, Web Mining Lab
    Supervisor: Prof. Liu Xiaofan.
    • Sentence Classification: developed the DPCIPI model based on DNABERT for viral gene similarity evaluation.
  • 2021.06 - 2021.07

    London, UK

    Research Experience
    Imperial College London
    Supervisor: Prof. Lucia Specia.
    • Sentiment Classification: news headline sentiment analysis using BERT.
  • 2019.03 - 2022.08

    Nanjing, China

    Master Student
    Southeast University, Atur Lab
    Supervisor: Prof. Gao Zhiqiang.
    • Text Generation: research on middle-representation language Pseudo-SQL to generate comparative questions.

Publications

Skills

Programming Languages
Python
Java
C++
SQL
HTML/CSS
Libraries
PyTorch
NumPy

Languages

Chinese
Native
English
Professional

Interests

Memory in AI
Long-term & parametric memory
Reinforcement Learning for LLM Agents
Temporal reasoning
Personalization in dialogue systems

Projects