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Qiwen Xiao

a.k.a. Charley.
CompSci undergraduate at SUSTech since 2022.
Passionate about frontiers of AI.

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UC Irvine · EECS298 Computational Optics

Lensless imaging final project received Best Technical Project Award

Spring 2026

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2024

Undergraduate Researcher, AI Research Institute @ Shenzhen MSU-BIT University

Developed as first author StyleMeta, a meta network combining flow matching with dynamic parameter generation for efficient multi-style graphical layout generation.

Flow Matching Layout Generation Meta Networks Generative Models

2023

Member, Supercomputing Team @ SUSTech

Participated in major supercomputing competitions, exhibited at SC24, and co-organized the SUSTech SuperComputing Competition.

Supercomputing HPC Competitions CloverLeaf

2025

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Computer Vision Lab @ UC Irvine

Used XGBoost, Levenberg–Marquardt, and the PROSPECT leaf model to study the relationship between radiance spectrum and vegetation water thickness.

Computer Vision Remote Sensing XGBoost Scientific Modeling

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2026

Physics-Guided Conditional Flow Matching for Lensless Imaging

A conditional generative approach to diffuser-based lensless reconstruction that improves over ADMM and supervised U-Net baselines, with x-prediction performing best in our study.

Lensless Imaging Flow Matching Computational Optics PyTorch Best Technical Project Award Project Lead

2025

ODE Samplers for Rectified Flow Generative Models

A systematic comparison of six ODE samplers for rectified flow on EuroSAT, showing that Euler is suboptimal and that multi-step or adaptive solvers provide a better quality–efficiency trade-off.

Rectified Flow ODE Solvers Generative Models Theory + Experiments Full Marks Project Lead

2025

Boston in 3D: A Citywide Object Archive Using Nerfstudio

Led a team to build a full pipeline for capturing objects across Boston, reconstructing them with Nerfstudio, and presenting them through an interactive map-based web interface.

3D Vision NeRF Nerfstudio Three.js React Leaflet Interactive Systems Project Lead

2024

Explainable Writing Style Detection

Built an interactive authorship attribution system that combines fastText with SHAP and LIME, achieving strong multi-author classification performance while making predictions interpretable to end users.

NLP Authorship Attribution Explainability fastText SHAP LIME Tornado Full Marks Project Lead