Tianbao Xie is a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Hong Kong with five years of research experience bridging NLP and multimodal systems. Currently a research intern at Qwen after a stint at Salesforce, he focuses on computer-use agents and pure-vision grounding solutions, working on both pre-training and post-training of large models. Trained at Harbin Institute of Technology with a near-perfect GPA, he brings strong technical foundations and a pragmatic research style—he describes himself as “not a typical NLP researcher,” signaling interdisciplinary curiosity and unconventional approaches. Based in Hong Kong, Tianbao combines academic rigor with industry-scale experimentation under advisors from leading labs, and maintains an active professional profile and portfolio at tianbaoxie.com.
5 years of coding experience
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.99/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.99/4.0 at Harbin Institute of Technology
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