Curriculum Vitae (CV)

PANG Kaicheng #

Email: pangkaicheng10@gmail.com
Research Area: Reinforcement Learning, Representation Learning, Fashion Modeling


Education #

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Fashion and Textile Design (Personal Intelligent Stylist), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (2021.01 - 2024.01)
  • Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (2016.09 - 2017.09)
  • Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Automation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China (2012.09 - 2016.06)

Work Experience #

  • Postdoc Research Associate | Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Design (2024.02 - Present)
  • Algorithm Engineer | Baidu, Inc. (2018.09 - 2019.12)
  • Research Assistant | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2020.01 - 2020.12, 2017.9 - 2018.08)

Research & Project Experience #

  • Research Focus:
    • Fashion Compatibility and Cognition Modeling
    • Personal Stylist Agent
    • Reinforcement Learning in Fashion Recommendation
  • Project Leadership: Core project lead for two significant initiatives:
    • AiDA: AI-Based Interactive Design Assistant For Fashion.
    • Mixi: Advanced fashion tagging and intelligent outfit recommendation systems.
    • Successfully led a dedicated engineering team for development and implementation.
  • Project Participation:
    • Intelligent fashion aesthetic evaluation system (RP 3-2) under InnoHK.
    • Artificial Intelligence based fashion design assistant (RP 3-1) under InnoHK.
    • Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence in Design (Project Code: Project 1.3) under InnoHK

Publications #

Conference Papers #

  • Pang, Kaicheng, Xingxing Zou, and Waikeung Wong (2024). Learning visual body-shape-aware embeddings for fashion compatibility. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (pp. 8056-8065).
  • Kaicheng Pang, Xingxing Zou, Fangjian Liao, and Waikeung Wong. M-vton: Multi-layer Virtual Try-on System. Design and Semantics of Form and Movement, 266, 2023
  • Kaicheng Pang, Xingxing Zou, and Waikeung Wong. Dress well via fashion cognitive learning. In 33rd British Machine Vision Conference 2022, BMVC 2022, London, UK, November 21-24, 2022, page 251. BMVA Press, 2022
  • Kaicheng Pang, Xingxing Zou, and Waikeung Wong. Modeling fashion compatibility with explanation by using bidirectional lstm. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, pages 3894–3898, June 2021
  • Xingxing Zou, Kaicheng Pang, Wen Zhang, and Waikeung Wong. How good is aesthetic ability of a fashion model? In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 21200–21209, 2022

Journal Papers #

  • Pang, Kaicheng, Zou, Xingxing, Broach, Zowie, and Wong, Waikeung. Towards Intelligent Online Cross-selling. Expert Systems with Applications. 298. 129686. 10.1016/j.eswa.2025.129686, 2025.
  • Dongmei Mo, Xingxing Zou, Kaicheng Pang, and Wai Keung Wong. Towards private stylists via personalized compatibility learning. Expert Systems with Applications, 219:119632, 2023.