Faculty Profiles - CHEN Yi | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Yi CHEN
陳懿

PhD in Industrial Engineering
Northwestern University, 2021

Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

(852) 2358 7115
yichen@ust.hk
Room 5559C
Personal Web

Scopus ID

57208443829

Research Interest Publications Projects Teaching Assignment RPG Supervision

Research Interest

Service operations management
Healthcare operations
E-commerce
Stochastic modeling

Publications

All Years 13 2026 1 2025 5 2024 2 2023 1 2022 0 2021 1 2020 3

2026 1

Temporal consistent multi-view perception for robust embodied manipulation

Pattern Recognition, v. 171, article number 112177
Chen, Haoyuan; Yang, Rushuai; Zhang, Junjie; Wen, Xiaoyu; Chen, Yi; Yu, Dengxiu; Bai, Chenjia; Wang, Zhen
Article

2025 5

A Primal-Dual Approach to Constrained Markov Decision Processes with Applications to Queue Scheduling and Inventory Management

Management Science
CHEN, Yi; DONG, Jing; WANG, Zhaoran; ZHANG, Chuheng
Article

Addressing Granularity-induced Semantic Drift in OvOD via Graph-guided semantically consistent representation

MM 2025 - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Co-Located with MM 2025, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2025, p. 7548-7557
Xu, Hongyan; Wu, Zhongze; He, Ang; Lin, Xi; Chen, Yi; Su, Xiu
Conference paper

Graph Unlearning Meets Influence-aware Negative Preference Optimization

MM 2025 - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Co-Located with MM 2025, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2025, p. 10857-10866
Chen, Qiang; Wu, Zhongze; He, Ang; Lin, Xi; Jiang, Shuo; You, Shan; Xu, Chang; Chen, Yi; Su, Xiu
Conference paper

Identify, Isolate, and Purge: Mitigating Hallucinations in LVLMs via Self-Evolving Distillation

MM 2025 - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Co-Located with MM 2025, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2025, p. 6791-6800
Li, Wenhao; Su, Xiu; Wu, Jingyi; Yang, Feng; Liu, Yang; Chen, Yi; You, Shan; Xu, Chang
Conference paper

Variance-Dependent Regret Bounds for Nonstationary Linear Bandits

Paper presented at The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
WANG, Zhiyong; XIE, Jize; CHEN, Yi; LUI, John; ZHOU, Dongruo
Conference paper

2024 2

Beyond order-based nursing workload: A retrospective cohort study in intensive care units

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, v. 56, (5), p. 687-693
Chen, Yi; Chan, Carri W.; Dong, Jing; Jackson, Emily M.; Yip, Natalie H.; Rossetti, Sarah C.
Article

Nearly Dimension-Independent Sparse Linear Bandit over Small Action Spaces via Best Subset Selection

Journal of the American Statistical Association, v. 119, (545), p. 246-258
Chen, Yi; Wang, Yining; Fang, Ethan X.; Wang, Zhaoran; Li, Runze
Article

2023 1

Epsin2, a novel target for multiple system atrophy therapy via α-synuclein/FABP7 propagation

Brain, v. 146, (8), p. 3172-3180
Cheng, An; Kawahata, Ichiro; Wang, Yifei; Jia, Wenbin; Wang, Haoyang; Sekimori, Tomoki; Chen, Yi; Suzuki, Hiroyoshi; Takeda, Atsushi; Stefanova, Nadia; Finkelstein, David I.; Ma, Wenbo; Chen, Min; Sasaki, Takuya; Fukunaga, Kohji
Article

2021 1

ϵ-strong simulation of fractional brownian motion and related stochastic differential equations

Mathematics of Operations Research, v. 46, (2), p. 559-594
Chen, Yi; Dong, Jing; Ni, Hao
Article

2019 2

Accelerating nonconvex learning via replica exchange Langevin diffusion

Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2019, New Orleans, United States
Chen, Yi; Chen, Jinglin; Dong, Jing; Peng, Jian; Wang, Zhaoran
Conference paper

On the Almost Sure Convergence Rate for A Series Expansion of Fractional Brownian Motion

2019 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019, p. 902-913article number 9004731
Chen, Yi; Dong, Jing
Conference paper

2018 1

Contrastive learning from pairwise measurements

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, v. 2018-December, p. 10909-10918
Chen, Yi; Yang, Zhuoran; Xie, Yuchen; Wang, Zhaoran
Conference paper

Article 1

Temporal consistent multi-view perception for robust embodied manipulation

Pattern Recognition, v. 171, article number 112177
Chen, Haoyuan; Yang, Rushuai; Zhang, Junjie; Wen, Xiaoyu; Chen, Yi; Yu, Dengxiu; Bai, Chenjia; Wang, Zhen

Article 1

A Primal-Dual Approach to Constrained Markov Decision Processes with Applications to Queue Scheduling and Inventory Management

Management Science
CHEN, Yi; DONG, Jing; WANG, Zhaoran; ZHANG, Chuheng

Conference paper 4

Addressing Granularity-induced Semantic Drift in OvOD via Graph-guided semantically consistent representation

MM 2025 - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Co-Located with MM 2025, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2025, p. 7548-7557
Xu, Hongyan; Wu, Zhongze; He, Ang; Lin, Xi; Chen, Yi; Su, Xiu

Graph Unlearning Meets Influence-aware Negative Preference Optimization

MM 2025 - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Co-Located with MM 2025, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2025, p. 10857-10866
Chen, Qiang; Wu, Zhongze; He, Ang; Lin, Xi; Jiang, Shuo; You, Shan; Xu, Chang; Chen, Yi; Su, Xiu

Identify, Isolate, and Purge: Mitigating Hallucinations in LVLMs via Self-Evolving Distillation

MM 2025 - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Co-Located with MM 2025, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2025, p. 6791-6800
Li, Wenhao; Su, Xiu; Wu, Jingyi; Yang, Feng; Liu, Yang; Chen, Yi; You, Shan; Xu, Chang

Variance-Dependent Regret Bounds for Nonstationary Linear Bandits

Paper presented at The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
WANG, Zhiyong; XIE, Jize; CHEN, Yi; LUI, John; ZHOU, Dongruo

Article 2

Beyond order-based nursing workload: A retrospective cohort study in intensive care units

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, v. 56, (5), p. 687-693
Chen, Yi; Chan, Carri W.; Dong, Jing; Jackson, Emily M.; Yip, Natalie H.; Rossetti, Sarah C.

Nearly Dimension-Independent Sparse Linear Bandit over Small Action Spaces via Best Subset Selection

Journal of the American Statistical Association, v. 119, (545), p. 246-258
Chen, Yi; Wang, Yining; Fang, Ethan X.; Wang, Zhaoran; Li, Runze

Article 1

Epsin2, a novel target for multiple system atrophy therapy via α-synuclein/FABP7 propagation

Brain, v. 146, (8), p. 3172-3180
Cheng, An; Kawahata, Ichiro; Wang, Yifei; Jia, Wenbin; Wang, Haoyang; Sekimori, Tomoki; Chen, Yi; Suzuki, Hiroyoshi; Takeda, Atsushi; Stefanova, Nadia; Finkelstein, David I.; Ma, Wenbo; Chen, Min; Sasaki, Takuya; Fukunaga, Kohji

Article 1

ϵ-strong simulation of fractional brownian motion and related stochastic differential equations

Mathematics of Operations Research, v. 46, (2), p. 559-594
Chen, Yi; Dong, Jing; Ni, Hao

Conference paper 2

Accelerating nonconvex learning via replica exchange Langevin diffusion

Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2019, New Orleans, United States
Chen, Yi; Chen, Jinglin; Dong, Jing; Peng, Jian; Wang, Zhaoran

On the Almost Sure Convergence Rate for A Series Expansion of Fractional Brownian Motion

2019 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019, p. 902-913article number 9004731
Chen, Yi; Dong, Jing

Conference paper 1

Contrastive learning from pairwise measurements

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, v. 2018-December, p. 10909-10918
Chen, Yi; Yang, Zhuoran; Xie, Yuchen; Wang, Zhaoran

2019 2

Accelerating nonconvex learning via replica exchange Langevin diffusion

Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2019, New Orleans, United States
Chen, Yi; Chen, Jinglin; Dong, Jing; Peng, Jian; Wang, Zhaoran
Conference paper

On the Almost Sure Convergence Rate for A Series Expansion of Fractional Brownian Motion

2019 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019, p. 902-913article number 9004731
Chen, Yi; Dong, Jing
Conference paper

2018 1

Contrastive learning from pairwise measurements

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, v. 2018-December, p. 10909-10918
Chen, Yi; Yang, Zhuoran; Xie, Yuchen; Wang, Zhaoran
Conference paper

No Publications

Teaching Assignment

2025-26 Spring 0 2025-26 Winter 0 2025-26 Fall 2 2024-25 Summer 0 2024-25 Spring 0 2024-25 Winter 0

IEDA2520	Probability for Engineers
IEDA3300	Industrial Data Systems

No Teaching Assignments

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 21 February 2026)

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

CHEN, Qiang (co-supervision)
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
WANG, Ziyu (co-supervision)
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
SU, Yang (co-supervision)
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
QIU, Wenxi (co-supervision)
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
XIE, Jize
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
YANG, Rushuai
Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

All Projects 2

No Projects.
A Partially Observable Markov Decision Process Model for Diagnostic Testing and Treatment Problem of Large Patient Populations

基于部分可觀察馬爾可夫決策過程的大規模患者群體診斷與治療模型 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
CHEN Yi (Lead)
2026 -
An Approximate Dynamic Programming Based Method for Queuing Network Control

基于近似動態規劃算法的排隊網絡最優控制 Leading

RGC - Early Career Scheme
Project Team (HKUST)
CHEN Yi (Lead)
2025 -

Research Interest

Publications

2026 1

2025 5

2024 2

2023 1

2021 1

2019 2

2018 1

Article 1

Article 1

Conference paper 4

Article 2

Article 1

Article 1

Conference paper 2

Conference paper 1

2019 2

2018 1

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2023 to December 2026 (As of 21 February 2026)

Current RPGs

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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