I am Qi Deng, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). My supervisors are A/Prof. Aaron Chen and A/Prof. Yi Mei. My research focuses on reinforcement learning, multimodal machine learning, game theory, and LLM-based agents, which are the tangible expressions of my passion for realizing artificial general intelligence. My research vision is to integrate reinforcement learning, multimodal machine learning, and game theory, aiming to develop artificial intelligence agents that perceive their environment, learn from multimodal data, improve from human feedback or preferences, coordinate actions for common goals, and adapt dynamically.

Previously, I completed my M.S. in Computer Technology at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and my B.S. in Software Engineering at Chengdu University of Information Technology (CUIT).

Curriculum Vitae

🔥 News

• Jun. 2025:  🎉🎉 My paper NcHo-AC has been accepted by the journal Applied Intelligence.

• Jun. 2025:  🎉🎉 The collaborative paper AGAT-IL has been accepted by the journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

• May 2025:  🎉🎉 I am honored with Outstanding Graduate of UESTC.

• Jan. 2025:  🎉🎉 The collaborative paper BBVA has been accepted by the journal Computer Science.

📖 Educations

• Sep. 2025 - Present: Ph.D. student at School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington.

• Sep. 2022 - Jun. 2025: M.S. student at School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

• Sep. 2018- Jun. 2022: B.S. student at School of Software Engineering, Chengdu University of Information Technology.

📝 Publications

IJCNN 2024

Hierarchical Fusion Framework for Multimodal Dialogue Response Generation

Qi Deng, Lijun Wu, Kaile Su, Wei Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Weiwei Duan

2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

Applied Intelligence

Multi-Agent Neighborhood Coordinated and Holistic Optimized Actor-Critic Framework for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control

Qi Deng, Lijun Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Kaile Su, Wei Wu, Weiwei Duan

Computer Science

Boundary Black-box Adversarial Example Generation Algorithm on Video Recognition Models

Yulin Jing, Lijun Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Qi Deng

Computer Science, 2025

EAAI

Adaptive Graph Attention Networks with Interactive Learning for Attributed Graph Clustering

Weiwei Duan, Lijun Wu, Qi Deng, Zhiyuan Li

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 3 times in 2022-2025: Academic Scholarship of UESTC (including Freshmen Scholarship) [certificate]
• May 2025: Outstanding Graduate of UESTC [certificate]
• Nov. 2024: Excellent Postgraduate Student of UESTC [certificate]
• May 2024: Travel Grant, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for IEEE WCCI 2024 [certificate]
• Mar. 2024: The Second Prize in CCF China CAT National Algorithm Elite Competition [certificate]
• Nov. 2023: Volunteer of Tsinghua University Press Cup College Student Algorithm Competition [certificate]
• Oct. 2023: The Bronze Medal in China Collegiate Algorithm Design & Programming Challenge Contest (Autumn 2023) [certificate]
• Oct. 2023: The Excellent Award in 9th China Postgraduate Intelligent City Technology and Design Competition [certificate]
• Aug. 2023: The Certificate of “Tencent Rhino-bird Open-source Training Program” project [certificate]
• Jul. 2023: The Sibo Award of National Campus Creativity Competition of China National Petroleum Corporation [certificate]

• Jun. 2023: The Bronze Medal in China Collegiate Algorithm Design & Programming Challenge Contest (Spring 2023) [certificate]

• 4 times in 2018-2022: Academic Scholarship of CUIT [certificate]
• Dec. 2021: Outstanding Graduate of CUIT [certificate]
• Dec. 2021: Merit Student of CUIT [certificate]
• Dec. 2021: As the class monitor, I led our class to achieve the title of ‘Excellent Class’ at CUIT [certificate]
• May 2021: Youth Role Model of CUIT (top 0.5%) [certificate]
• Dec. 2020: Comprehensive Quality A Certificate of Sichuan Province [certificate]
• Jun. 2020: Special Prize Team of Summer Rural Social Practice [certificate]
• Nov. 2019: Excellent Student Leaders of CUIT [certificate]
• Apr. 2019: Excellent Volunteer of 2019 National Meteorological Science Exposition Competition [certificate]

💻 Services

Teaching Service

• Teaching Assistant for graduate course “Formal Methods”

  University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sep. 2023 - Jan. 2024

Conference Reviewer

• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

Journal Reviewer

• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• Expert Systems With Applications