Miscellaneous | Max W.F. Ku

I have served as a reviewer for the following conferences and journals:

2025: Invited talk “GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models” at Multimodal Weekly 75 hosted by Twelve Labs
2024: Interview “AnyV2V: A Tuning-Free Framework For Any Video-to-Video Editing Tasks” at MIT Technology Review China & DeepTech
2022: Interview “ABU Asia-Pacific RoboCon 2021 Contest” broadcasted by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK)
2020: Invited talk “Image Processing with OpenCV” Tutorial by HKIE Student Chapter at PolyU

2024 Fall - Now : PhD in Computer Science, University of Waterloo, advised by Prof. Wenhu Chen.
2023 Winter - 2024 Spring : MMath in Computer Science, University of Waterloo, advised by Prof. Wenhu Chen.
2018 Fall - 2022 Spring : BSc in Internet and Multimedia Technologies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Academics

2024 International Doctoral Student Award
2024 International Masters Award of Excellence
2024 Graduate Student Research Dissemination Award: Travel grant for ICLR 2024 from UWaterloo.
2023 - 2024 Vector Research Grant
2022 Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholarship: Research grant from PolyU.
2021 HKSAR Government Scholarship
2021 Best Undergradute Thesis Project Award
2019 - 2021 Dean List, Best GPA Award

Competitions

2021 Commendation Award, i-Space Virtual Reality Contest 2021, Submission: VR Bomberman Game
2021 7th place, ABU RoboCon 2021, Submission: Vision-Assisted Arrow Shooting Robots
2020 6th place, Best Institute Entity Award, ABU RoboCon 2020, Submission: Rugby Kicking Robots
2019 4th place, Best Engineering Award, ABU RoboCon 2019, Submission: Item Passing Robots
2019 1st Runner-up, PolyU FENG Freshman Project Competition

Auxiliary Software Skills

Development Tools: Unity
3D Modeling : Blender, Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya
Media Editing : Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

Deep Learning Papers Reading Group

Blogging

Gaming

Hobbies