Bo Yang

Bo Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, leading the Visual Learning and Reasoning (vLAR) Group. His work focuses on machine learning, computer vision, and robotics for 3D scene understanding.

• D.Phil (University of Oxford, 2020)
• M.Phil (The University of Hong Kong, 2016)
• B.Eng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2014)

Research spans:

• 3D Vision: Point cloud understanding, semantic segmentation, neural rendering
• Machine Learning: Unsupervised/disentangled representation learning
• Robotics: Scene interaction, autonomous navigation

Recent publications analyze dynamic 3D scenes (NeurIPS 2023), infinite scene representations (ICML 2024), and unsupervised object segmentation (NeurIPS 2022). Key contributions include RandLA-Net (CVPR 2020), SpinNet (CVPR 2021), and GRF (ICCV 2021).

Current teaching includes:

• AI and Big Data Computing (Spring 2024-2025)
• Machine Learning and Data Analytics (Fall 2023-2025)
• Creative Digital Media Design (Spring 2023-2025)