Kien T. Pham (TK)

Kien T. Pham (TK)

PhD Student @ HKUST
tkpham [at] connect.ust.hk Hong Kong SAR

About Me

Hi πŸ‘‹, I am currently a PhD student at HKUST, co-advised by Prof. Long Chen in the LONG Group and Prof. Qifeng Chen in the Visual Intelligence Lab. Previously, I completed my MPhil at HKUST under the guidance of Prof. Qifeng Chen, a journey filled with joy and success. Before that, I earned my BSc Degree with First Class Honors, double majoring in Data Science and Computer Science. I am also an alum of the S.S. Chern Class, an elite class for students with demonstrated mathematical excellence.

During my MPhil, I worked on creative applications of Diffusion Models such as Image Composition, as well as engaged in projects about Visual Perception for Autonomous Driving and Humanoid Robotics. For my current research, I will mainly focus on exploring Audio-Video Generation and Understanding.

Feel free to contact me by Email/WeChat if you are interested in discussing or collaborating with me!

News

Oct. 2025 ✈️ I'm very excited to attend ACM MM 2025 in Dublin, Ireland to present our paper!
Jul. 2025 πŸ₯³ One paper accepted to ACM MM 2025.
Apr. 2025 ✈️ I'm very excited to attend ICLR 2025 in Singapore!
Oct. 2024 ✈️ I'm very excited to attend ACM MM 2024 in Melbourne, Australia to present our paper!
Jul. 2024 πŸ₯³ One paper accepted to ACM MM 2024.
Jun. 2024 πŸ₯³ One paper accepted to RO-MAN 2024.
May. 2024 ✈️ I'm very excited to attend ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan to present our paper!
Jan. 2024 πŸ₯³ One paper accepted to ICRA 2024.

Publications

Selected Papers
SpA2V teaser
Kien T. Pham, Yingqing He, Yazhou Xing, Qifeng Chen, Long Chen
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2025
TALE teaser
Kien T. Pham, Jingye Chen, Qifeng Chen
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2024
Other Papers
Humanoid Robot teaser
Yifan Shenβˆ—, Dingdong Liuβˆ—, Yejin Bangβˆ—, Ho Shu Chan, Rita Frieske, Hoo Choun Chung, Jay Nieles, Tianjia Zhang, Kien T. Pham, Wai Yi Rosita Cheng, Yini Fang, Qifeng Chen, Pascale Fung, Xiaojuan Ma, Bertram Shi
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2024
✨ 3rd Place β€” Best Industry Application Award
CCSU teaser
Zhili Chen, Kien T. Pham, Maosheng Ye, Zhiqiang Shen, Qifeng Chen
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

Side Projects

Medical Cancer Image Generation
Propose a method for generating highly realistic medical cancer images given any pairs of non-tumorous background and tumour object images, directly utilizing the pretrained Stable Diffusion.
Project Report, 2024

Education

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Hong Kong Sep. 2018 – Present
PhD in CSE, co-advised by Prof. Long Chen and Prof. Qifeng Chen
MPhil in CSE, advised by Prof. Qifeng Chen
BSc in DSc and CS (First Class Honors), co-advised by Prof. Chi-Wai Yu and Dr. Albert Yin-Bon Ku

Industry Experience

Teaching

2026 Spring: COMP2011 β€” Programming with C++

2024 Fall, 2022 Spring: COMP1021 β€” Introduction to Computer Science

2023 Fall: COMP4471/ELEC4240 β€” Deep Learning in Computer Vision

Community Services

Conferences: NeurIPS, ICCV, ICML, CVPR, ICLR, AISTAT, BMVC

Awards & Scholarships

Postgraduate Studentship
2022 – Present
RTG Award, HKUST
Spring 2024, Fall 2024
Chern Class Achievement Scholarship
2022
Chern Class Talent Scholarship
2020 – 2022
Chern Class Scholarship
2019
Heart Free Lodge Scholarship
2018
University Scholarship
2018 – 2022
Dean's List
Spring 2018, 2020; Fall 2019, 2021