Projects per year
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 1 No Poverty -
SDG 2 Zero Hunger -
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation -
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy -
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 13 Climate Action -
SDG 14 Life Below Water -
SDG 15 Life on Land -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions -
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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Profiles
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Sunil ARYA, 安雅信
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Associate Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
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Brahim BENSAOU, 彭卲邦
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Associate Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
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Tristan Camille BRAUD
- Division of Integrative Systems and Design - Assistant Professor
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Assistant Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
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Jialun CAO, 曹嘉倫
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Research Assistant Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
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Gary Shueng Han CHAN, 陳雙幸
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
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Hao CHEN, 陳浩
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Assistant Professor
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering - Assistant Professor
- Division of Life Science - Assistant Professor
Person: HKUST Staff
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Agentic Media for the Future of Collaborative Work and Communication
MA, X. (PI)
1/07/26 → 30/06/27
Project: Research
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Federated LPWANs for Scalable IoT
WANG, Z. (CoPI), LI, M. (PI), ZHANG, Q. (CoPI), ZHENG, Y. (CoPI) & LI, Z. (CoPI)
RGC - Collaborative Research Fund
30/06/26 → 29/06/29
Project: Research
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Sustainable AI Datacenter with Immersion Cooling and Generalized Carbon Estimation
LI, B. (CoPI), YANG, H. (CoPI), TAI, S. (Team member), WANG, D. (PI) & WANG, Z. (CoPI)
RGC - Collaborative Research Fund
30/06/26 → 29/06/29
Project: Research
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Development of an Automated UAV Vertiport for Low Altitude Economy Research at HKUST
ZHANG, X. (CoPI), YANG, H. (CoPI), ZHANG, F. (CoPI), HUANG, H. (CoPI), LI, M. (CoPI), LI, S. (CoPI), FANG, Y. (CoPI), ZHOU, P. (CoPI), SHAO, Q. (CoPI), QI, X. (CoPI), MENG, Z. (PI) & ZHOU, X. (CoPI)
RGC - Collaborative Research Fund
1/06/26 → 31/05/29
Project: Research
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AIoT-powered Multi-modality Underwater SOS System
LI, M. (CoPI)
RGC - Collaborative Research Fund
1/06/26 → 31/05/29
Project: Research
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Privacy Infrastructure Design for Web3
GUO, S. (CoPI)
RGC - Collaborative Research Fund
1/06/26 → 31/05/29
Project: Research
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DeepSparseCT: An Ultra-Sparse X-Ray-Driven Foundation Model for Intraoperative 3D CT Reconstruction
XU, Z. (Team member), XIE, J. (Team member), CHEN, Q. (CoPI), TSE, L. F. (Team member), SHI, B. E. (CoPI), LI, X. (PI), CHUI, C.-S. E. (Team member), HE, J. (CoPI) & YUNG, P.S.-H. (CoPI)
RGC - Collaborative Research Fund
1/06/26 → 31/05/29
Project: Research
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AC-Xray: A Platform for Dependability Assessment of Large Language Models in Industrial Sectors
LI, B. (CoPI), WU, D. (CoPI), WANG, S. (PI) & WANG, W. (CoPI)
Innovation and Technology Commission, Qianxin International Co. Limited
1/05/26 → 30/04/28
Project: Research
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ZKDI: A Zero-Knowledge Proof-based Data Intelligence System for Financial and Web3 Data Analytics
LI, B. (CoPI), YANG, Y. (CoPI), WANG, S. (PI) & ZHOU, X. (CoPI)
15/04/26 → 14/04/30
Project: Research
Research output
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3DFA: Aligning the Features Between Point Cloud and Query Image for Scene-Specific Visual Localization
SONG, S., CHI, Y., ZHONG, S. & CHAN, G. S. H., Jun 2026, Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Findings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 360-369 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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3D SA-LoIFM: A three-dimensional framework for segmentation-assisted learning of informative feature matching in liver CT-3D US rigid registration
He, B., Wu, T., Zhang, Y., Luo, H., Chen, H. & Jia, F., 1 Jun 2026, In: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 118, 109664.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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A Better Start: Sensitivity-Aware Warm-Up for Robust and Efficient Fine-Tunin
Chen, Y., Wen, Z., Chen, J. & Huang, J., 14 Mar 2026, In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 40, 36, p. 30324-30331 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article published in journal › peer-review
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A Breast Vision Pathology Foundation Model for Real-world Clinical Utility
Xu, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhang, X., Xu, M., Zhou, F., Wang, Y., Ma, J., Xin, Y., Li, D., Lu, C., Cen, Z., Tan, Y., Yao, Q., Wang, Q., Gao, Z., Zhang, Y., Chen, J., Liu, F., Xu, Q. & Dai, Y. & 15 others, , 6 May 2026, 60 p.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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A Comparative Performance Study of Protein Structure Alignment Tools on Homology Detection with Biological Relevance
Chen, Z., Zhang, X., Yu, W. & Luo, Q., 29 Jan 2026, Proceedings - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2025. Liu, J., Huang, J., Wang, X., Zhang, F., Zou, X., Tian, T., Hu, X., Hu, B. & Xiong, Y. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 134-139 6 p. 11356623. (Proceedings - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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A Comprehensive Survey on Concurrent Transmission in Backscatter Communication
Wang, W., Ding, S., Luo, Z., Dong, H., Wu, Y. & Zhang, Q., Mar 2026, In: Journal of Communications and Information Networks. 11, 1, p. 22-38 17 p., 11474253.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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Active Intelligence in Video Avatars via Closed-loop World Modeling
He, X., Yang, T., Cao, K., Wu, R., Meng, C., Zhang, Y., Kang, Z., Wei, X. & Chen, Q., 2026, p. 27239 - 27248. 10 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Paper › peer-review
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Active Multi-source Domain Adaptation for Multimodal Fake News Detection
Chen, Y., Shi, W., Li, M., Cui, Y., Li, J., Zhang, R., Chen, H., Guo, H., Di, S., Liu, Z., ZHU, J. & XU, J., 14 Mar 2026, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Press, Vol. 40. p. 20363-20371 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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AdaCtrl: Towards Adaptive and Controllable Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware Budgeting
HUANG, S., Wang, H., Zhong, W., SU, Z., Feng, J., Cao, B. & FUNG, M., 13 Apr 2026, In: Transactions on Machine Learning Research. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
Open Access
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The Role of AI in HCI Education
Kristensson, P. O. (Moderator), YUAN, L. (Panelist), Oulasvirta, A. (Panelist) & Churchill, E. (Panelist)
14 Apr 2026Activity: Talk or presentation › Plenary
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"What If My Face Gets Scanned Without Consent": Older Adults' Experiences with Biometric Payment
DENG, Y. (Invited speaker)
13 Apr 2026 → 17 Apr 2026Activity: Talk or presentation › Contributed
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Experiencer, Helper, or Observer: Online Fraud Intervention for Older Adults Through a Role-based Simulation Approach
DENG, Y. (Invited speaker)
13 Apr 2026 → 17 Apr 2026Activity: Talk or presentation › Contributed
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ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2026 (MMSys) Hong Kong
Hui, P. (Participant), FUNG, M. (Participant), BRAUD, T. C. (Participant) & PANG, C. C. (Participant)
4 Apr 2026 → 8 Apr 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference / Workshop
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VP-VLA: Visual Prompting as an Interface for Vision-Language-Action Models
WANG, Z. (Contributor)
24 Mar 2026Activity: Talk or presentation › Contributed
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Scalable 3D Generation: From Leveraging Foundation Models to Building Data Engines
JIANG, C. (Invited speaker)
13 Mar 2026Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited
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NUS-Google Workshop: The Future of CS Education in the AI Era
MA, X. (Participant)
25 Jan 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference / Workshop
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PVLDB 2026 (Journal)
WONG, C. W. (Associate Editor)
1 Jan 2026Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
Awards
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ACM CHI 2026 Best Paper Honorable Mention
SHEN, L. (Recipient), Wang, Y. (Recipient), QU, H. (Recipient), Xie, X. (Recipient) & Li, H. (Recipient), 17 Apr 2026
Prize: Honorary Award
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AeroRelief: Autonomous UAV First-Responder System
LI, M. (Recipient), LI, S. (Recipient), WU, C. M. (Recipient), FAN, T. H. (Recipient), YE, Z. (Recipient) & WONG, L. Y. G. (Recipient), 15 Mar 2026
Prize: Other Research Award and Prize
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Best Paper Award
Zheng, J. (Recipient), DENG, Y. (Recipient), Chen, J. (Recipient), Li, S. (Recipient), Zou, Y. (Recipient) & Li, J. (Recipient), Apr 2026
Prize: Best Paper Award and Prize
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Press/Media
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13 HKUST Research Projects Secure Top Funding from RGC Collaborative Research Fund and Research Impact Fund
WANG, D., WANG, S., CHEN, S., TSANG, C. W., ZHAI, Y., ZHANG, F., LI, M., MENG, Z., WANG, G., YANG, Y., LU, H., LI, X. & CHENG, K.-T. T.
7/01/26
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media
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Courses
Datasets
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Multi-modal Integrated Prediction and Decision-making with Adaptive Interaction Modality Explorations
LI, T. (Owner), ZHANG, L. (Owner), Liu, S. (Owner) & SHEN, S. (Owner), GitHub, 2025
https://github.com/HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/MIND
Dataset
Student theses
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[pi]Mesh : practical implementation of a low-cost wireless mesh for indoor networking
He, T. (Author), 2010Student thesis: Master's thesis
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3D and 4D Reconstruction and Generation for World Modeling
MI, Z. (Author), XU, D. (Supervisor), 2026Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
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3D perception and motion prediction with point cloud learning in autonomous driving
YE, M. (Author), CHEN, Q. (Supervisor), 2024Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
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3D reconstruction and synthesis of facial expressions using a manifold alignment framework
Yu, L. F. (Author), 2009Student thesis: Master's thesis
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3D semantic segmentation of indoor and outdoor scenes
HU, Z. (Author), TAI, C. L. (Supervisor), 2022Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
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3-level latent structure models for TCM data analysis
Hua, D. (Author), 2002Student thesis: Master's thesis