Qiwen Xiao

Projects

Selected course, research, and engineering projects in various topics.

Physics-Guided Conditional Flow Matching for Lensless Imaging teaser

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
ODE Samplers for Rectified Flow Generative Models teaser

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
Boston in 3D: A Citywide Object Archive Using Nerfstudio teaser

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
Explainable Writing Style Detection teaser

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
GalaGuide teaser

2024

GalaGuide

Built a cross-platform desktop application for campus events and reservations, combining event discovery, booking, chat, forums, maps, calendars, and AI-assisted features in a unified system.

Software Engineering Desktop App Electron Vue Ktor Campus Systems Reservation System