Haobo LI

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45, Universal Center,

Clear Water Bay, HK

I am Haobo LI (李昊波), a year-3 Ph.D. candidate at HKUST VisLab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), supervised by Prof. Huamin Qu. Before joining HKUST, I obtained my M.S. and B.S. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the South China University of Technology, respectively. I also have industry experience from working at Intel for more than two years.

My research interests lie in interdisciplinary studies encompassing data visualization and the alignment of multimodal climate-related data using MLLMs within the context of digital twin.

I welcome any ideas or collaborative projects related to my research interests. Please feel free to reach out to me via email.

News

Aug 20, 2025 New Paper Published: CLLMate: A Multimodal Benchmark for Weather and Climate Events Forecasting accepted at EMNLP 2025 Main Conference (CORE-A*). :tada:
Jul 24, 2025 One coauthor full paper accepted by ACM UIST 2025 (CCF-A/CORE-A*).
Jul 24, 2025 Received HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award!
Jul 04, 2025 New Paper Published: Save It for the “Hot” Day: An LLM-Empowered Visual Analytics System for Heat Risk Management accepted at TVCG 2025 (SCI & JCR Q1). :tada:
Feb 04, 2025 One coauthor full paper accepted by TVCG 2025 (SCI & JCR Q1).
Feb 04, 2025 One coauthor full paper accepted by Geophysical Research Letters 2025 (SCI & JCR Q1).
Oct 05, 2023 I pass my PQE and become a Ph.D. candidate!
Aug 01, 2023 I complete all of my doctoral courses and achieve A range grades in all of them!
Sep 01, 2022 I have my Ph.D. journey started and get the Redbird Scholarship! :sparkles:
Apr 21, 2022 I am a RA at ENVR HKUST supervised by Prof. Alexis K H LAU.
Feb 16, 2022 I get the CSE Ph.D. offer of HKUST VisLab.
Sep 01, 2018 National Scholarship in SJTU.
Sep 01, 2016 National Scholarship in SCUT.
Sep 01, 2015 National Scholarship in SCUT.

Publications

  1. Haobo Li, Zhaowei Wang, Wang Yueya Wang, and 2 more authors
    EMNLP Main Conference 2025
  2. Haobo Li, Wong Kam-Kwai, Yan Luo, and 6 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025
  3. Haobo Li, Eunseo Jung, Zixin Chen, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint 2025
  4. Zixin Chen, Jiachen Wang, Haobo Li, and 3 more authors
    ACM UIST 2025
  5. Wai Tong, Haobo Li, Meng Xia, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025
  6. Yueya Wang, Haobo Li, Xiaoming Shi, and 1 more author
    Geophysical Research Letters 2024

Awards

Jul 24, 2025 HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award.
Aug 01, 2022 HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award.
Jan 01, 2021 I win first prize in the Intel Hackathon Competition and received the Intel Excellent New College Graduate award.
Sep 01, 2018 National Scholarship (1%)
Sep 01, 2016 National Scholarship (1%)
Sep 01, 2015 National Scholarship (1%)

Services

Academic Service

Jun 05, 2025 Conference Reviewer for ARR - May 2025.
Jun 02, 2025 Conference Reviewer for VIS 2025 Short Papers.
Jan 21, 2025 Conference Reviewer for ARR - Dec 2024.
Oct 20, 2024 Conference Reviewer for CHI 2024 Late-Breaking Work.
Sep 02, 2024 Conference Reviewer for ARR - Oct 2024.

Teaching Service

Sep 02, 2024 Teaching Assistant for ‘COMP1021 - Introduction to Computer Science’ in Fall 2024 at HKUST.
Sep 02, 2023 Teaching Assistant for ‘COMP2011 - Programming with C++’ in Fall 2023 at HKUST.
Feb 02, 2023 Teaching Assistant for ‘COMP1029P (L1) - Python Programming Bridging Course’ in Spring 2023 at HKUST.