Will ZHAO

Hello there, I am a MSc student in Information Technology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), advised by Prof. Bin Xiao. Before that, I was an undergraduate student in B.S. Network Engineering from GDUT, where I was advised by Prof. Dongning Liu.

Research Interests

My research interests including Natural Language Processing(NLP) during udergraduate studies, which is the topic of my undergraduate thesis(Sentences Sentiment Analysis based on BERT).

Currently, my research interests including Adversarial Training, Meta-learning. I have published a paper in ICML2021 Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning as secondary author. I have reached 15/36478 in first phase and 20/36478 in overall in ACM MM2021 Robust defense competition for e-commerce logo detection with my teammates.

Movies(Douban)

I have roughly watched 1000 movies and/or TV series, stand-up comedies, etc. My personal best movie is The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Always have, always will.

I have watched all the movies directed by following directors(in time ascending order):

  • Bi Gan, China
  • Wes Anderson, U.S.
  • Christopher Nolan, U.K.
  • Lee Chang-dong, South Koera
  • Jiang Wen, China
  • Stanley Kubrick, U.S.
  • Satoshi Kon, Japan
  • Aki Olavi Kaurismäki, Finland

I have participated in following film festivals as cinephile:

  • HKAFF2018(Hong Kong Asian Film Festival), Hong Kong
  • FIRST2020(FIRST International Film Festival), Xining, China
  • BJIFF2020(Beijing International Film Festival), Beijing, China
  • PYIFF2020(Pingyao International Film Festival), Pingyao, China
  • IFFAM2020(International Film Festival & Awards Macao), Online
  • SIFF2021(Shanghai International Film Festival), Shanghai, China
  • BJIFF2021(Beijing International Film Festival), Beijing, China

Musics(Spotify)

SABINA之淚万能青年旅店Wish You Were HereThe Dark Side of The Moon
My Little Airport万能青年旅店Pink FloydPink Floyd

Writing(G-CORES

I will randomly post some articles on G-CORES in chinese about social phenomenon, game, etc.