Bio
I'm Hongwei Fan, an incoming PhD student at Peking University, advised by Prof. Hao Dong. My research interests are robot manipulation and 3D vision. I graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(BUPT), working closely with Prof. Cewu Lu and Prof. Yong-Lu Li from Shanghai Jiao Tong University(SJTU). I worked at Sensetime as FTE and now am working at Agibot as intern. In my spare time, I like playing with geeky things like computer network and parallel computing, and I'm also enthusiastic in literature and arts, especially musicals and comedies.
This website was built upon LNMP and WordPress, with theme Sakura installed. If you want to build your own personal website in this way, a detailed instruction is strongly recommended. Special thanks to the instruction of Seoimo and the theme of Mashiro.
E-mail: hwnorm[at]outlook[dot]com
Educational Background
- 2015.9~2019.6: Bachelor student of the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(BUPT).
- 2019.9~2022.6: Master student of the School of AI, BUPT.
- 2020.7~2022.6: Visiting student of Machine Vision and Intelligence Group, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. (advised by Prof. Cewu Lu and Prof. Yong-Lu Li)
- 2024.2~now: Research Assistant -> PhD student, Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, Peking University. (advised by Prof. Hao Dong).
Career Experience
- 2024.2~now: Research Intern, PKU-Agibot Lab.
- 2022.6~2024.2: Research Engineer, Sensetime.
- 2021.4~2022.6: Research Intern, Sensetime.
Research Interests
- Robot Manipulation
- 3D Vision
Academic Projects



Open-source Projects


Talks
- BUPT AI ML Club
- BUPT Microsoft Student Technology Club
Prizes
- "Star of Tomorrow" English Competition of BUPT, Special Prize, 2016.5
- Corporate Scholarship of BUPT, 2016.10
- National Scholarship of China, 2018.10
- Ten Top Student Nomination of ICE school, BUPT, 2018.11
- Outstanding Graduate of BUPT, 2022.6
- “What's past is prologue”
Skills
Language
- Japanese - JLPT N2 (certificated on Jan. 2024), full score 132/180, A level for both vocabulary and grammar
Computer Graphics
- Unreal Engine 4 - Graphics application, blueprints, materials, rigging and skeleton. (2022-2023)
- Blender - 3D generation, rigging, physical simulation and add-on programming. (2021-)
Linux
- ECS - I am maintaining several cloud servers (including this site), and I mainly use Ubuntu. I designed topology with protocols like n2n (with parsec) to connect machines across ISPs for remote working. (2017-)
- NAS - I have a Synology server, for seeding on BYRBT (a P2P site in BUPT) and watching movies. (2018-)
- VNC - I designed a VNC solution for the rendering application on headless server, and it was widely used by my colleagues. (2022)
Software
- Qt & PyQt & Beautiful Soup - I developed a software to analyze the prices of takeout in Beijing, using Beautiful Soup for crawler and PyQt for UI interface. (2017)
- PyWebIO & Submitit - I used PyWebIO + Submitit to build a prototype framework making deep learning algorithm can be touched through Web interface, including interactive job submission, management, visualization and output downloading. (2022)
- React.JS & Websocket - Based on React and Websocket, I built the upgraded version of the abovementioned solution, and added new functions including workflow management and interactive visualization. (2023)
- LNMP & WordPress - This website was built upon WordPress and LNMP, where LNMP = Linux + Nginx + MySQL + PHP. (2019-)
Hardware
- Arduino - I developed a doorbell system upon intelligent open-source hardware Microduino in my first year of university. (2015)
- VHDL/Verilog - I developed a game system which was referred by many of my schoolmates with music Todokanai Koi (the theme song of White Album 2) on Altera CPLD device. (2018)
Other Interests
Literature & Arts
- Actor, screenwriter and director. I have participated in the creation of many dramas since high school. My masterpiece is Darabonba, which is my first script and also the first musical of BUPT Yanfeng ACG Club. The details of these dramas are listed here.
Time | Name | Type | My Role |
2014 | A Talk of Fried Noodles | Two-man comic show | Lead |
2015 | Filming | Short sketch | Lead |
2016 | Rio 2 | Dubbing | Director |
2016 | Five Heroes of Langya Mountain | Drama | Supporting role |
2018 | Darabonba(Memorial Album) | Musical | Screenwriter, supporting role |
2018 | Love Story in the Winter | Musical | Director, screenwriter |
2019 | Pigeon | Musical | Consultant |
2019 | Love Story in a Sudden | Musical | Consultant |
Games
- Age of Empires 2(AOE2) - I often use the Huns as my civilization because their cavalries are imposing.
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms (9/11) - My favorite scenarios are 190(Eighteen Lords) and 194(Separatism). I'm more familiar with San9 due to its randomness.
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2013(PES2013) - I used FC Barcelona in the early years, and now I usually choose the teams randomly for fun.
- osu!mania(my site on osu!) - 1500pp in 4k mode. The level of the most difficult song I've played is 3.6(Miiro - AKINO from bless4).
- Sound Voltex - Level 11 and may be higher in the future due to the training of osu!mania.
- Majsoul(A Japanese Mahjong Game, 雀魂 in Chinese) - Level 3-3(雀杰3 in Chinese), my id: johntheuser.
- White Album 2 - A crazy fan of Touma Kazusa and Sugiura Koharu. It is also the inspiration of Love Story in the Winter.
- CLANNAD - I love the Dango Family and Furukawa Nagisa!
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - "unnecessary feelings" ...
Sports
- Badminton - 1-2 times per week
- Biking - improving endurance
- Climbing Mountain - challenging myself
Reading List
- Letters to a Young Poet
- The mythical man-month
- A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century
- A Critical Biography of Cao Cao (曹操评传 in Chinese)
- Steve Jobs
- Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem
- Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary