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Education, selected publications, experience, and research interests.
General Information
| Full Name | Haichuan Hu |
| Location | Hong Kong SAR |
| haichuan.hu@connect.polyu.hk | |
| Phone | +852 5531 0793 |
| Google Scholar | Google Scholar |
| GitHub | github.com/Tomsawyerhu |
| Homepage | tomsawyerhu.github.io |
Research Interests
- Emotional Support
- Personalized Alignment
- Large Language Models
- LLM Agents
- AI for Software Engineering
Education
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Jan. 2026 - Present Ph.D. Student, Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR - Research area: Emotional Support
- Supervisor: Prof. Wenjie Li
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Sep. 2022 - Jun. 2024 Master of Engineering in Software Engineering
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China - GPA: 85/100
- Supervisor: Prof. Zhenyu Chen
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Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2022 Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China - GPA: 87/100 (top 25%)
- Supervisor: Prof. Zhenyu Chen
Selected Publications
Industry and Research Experience
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Jul. 2024 - Dec. 2025 Backend Developer, PolarDB
Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China - Contributed to the product development of PolarDB, Alibaba Cloud's cloud-native relational database.
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Apr. 2024 - Jun. 2024 Copilot and Incident Analytics Project
Microsoft, Suzhou, China - Built an LLM-based incident consultation system and an internal Copilot knowledge question-answering system with retrieval and document synchronization.
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Jun. 2023 - Sep. 2023 Software Engineering Intern
Alibaba.com, Hangzhou, China - Designed and executed a MySQL migration of approximately 200 million records while preserving data consistency and integrity.
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Jun. 2021 - Aug. 2021 Software Engineering Intern
Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China - Managed MySQL cluster machines and developed Go scripts for routine health checks and failure recovery.
Selected Open-Source Project
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Chinese-WebNovel-Skill
A modular Codex skill for planning, drafting, continuing, and revising Chinese web novels.- Python; 904 stars | 100 forks (updated October 21, 2026).