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Qianwen Lu

• Profile
  Joined SoftBank in April 2025 while enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Information Science at the University of Tokyo.
  Currently affiliated with the AI-RAN Research Division at the Advanced Technology Research Institute, where I am engaged in research and development of next-generation RAN technologies leveraging AI. My work focuses on AI model acceleration, validation of AI-RAN platforms through GPU utilization, and advancing AI-RAN technologies through academic collaboration.
• Research areas
  • AI/ML
  • AI for RAN
  • Transformer
• Major awards
  • FY25 First Half Division Award (Member)
• Major publications / papers
  • "Artistic Line Drawing Rendering with Priors of Depth and Edge Density", IEEE MultiMedia, 2023.
  • "DPEC: Dual-Path Error Compensation for low-light image enhancement", Neurocomputing, 2025
  • "BeautyBank: Encoding Facial Makeup in Latent Space", IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2025.
• Major achievements
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member, IEEE ICC 2026 – WC (Wireless Communications)
  • SoftBank Corp. Boosts 5G AI-RAN Throughput by 30% with New Transformer AI ~ Achieves groundbreaking low-latency architecture for signal processing ~
• Research areas and achievements as a student
  • My primary research focuses on generative AI and image processing.
  • Awarded a Solo Silver Medal in a Kaggle competition.
  • Recipient of the MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan) Scholarship during my Ph.D. program.
• Hobbies
  Anime, Cats