Zhiyu Hou About Research Awards Education

Zhiyu Hou

Southern University of Science and Technology

Hi! My name is Zhiyu Hou (侯致宇). I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at SUSTech, majoring in Computer Science and Technology.

My research interests include Visual Generation, Agentic AI, and Efficient AI.

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Publications

Selected publications and ongoing research projects.
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GenRouter: Unified Workflow Routing for Agentic Image Generation

Harold H. Chen*, Zhiyu Hou*, Wen-Jie Shu, Weilin Ruan, Yingjie Xu, Litao Guo, Ying-Cong Chen
Under Review, 2026
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Budget-Aware Submodel Extraction from Vision-Language Foundation Models

Ziyao Wang, Zhiyu Hou, Chen Chen, Jingtao Li, Yuhan Liu, Zhiqiang Shen, Ang Li, Lingjuan Lyu
Under Review, 2026
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Provable Model Provenance Set for Large Language Models

Xiaoqi Qiu*, Hao Zeng*, Zhiyu Hou, Hongxin Wei
Under Review, 2026
arXiv




Awards
2025.08 Second Prize, 18th "Challenge Cup" Guangdong Provincial Competition
2025.07 Merit Award, 3rd Entropy Cup Cryptography Security Challenge
2024.11 Outstanding Volunteer, SUSTech
2023.09 Freshman Scholarship, SUSTech



Education
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Southern University of Science and Technology

B.E in Computer Science and Engineering
Sep. 2023 - Jun. 2027 (expected)
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Shenzhen Senior High School

Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2023
Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2020

Design and source code from Jon Barron's website