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Research interests
Computer Science / Information Technology - Multimedia knowledge reasoning
Computer Science / Information Technology - Reasoning and Agents
Computer Science / Information Technology - Computational Social Science
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD in Computer Science, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute
2024
Expertise related to 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. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Robust Multi-Speaker Separation and Noise Reduction System Based on Self-Supervised Learning and Acoustic Scene Modeling
FUNG, M. (PI)
17/11/25 → 16/11/26
Project: Research
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Research output
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CALM: Unleashing the Cross-Lingual Self-Aligning Ability of Language Model Question Answering
WANG, Y., FAN, Z., WANG, Q., FUNG, M. & JI, H., Jan 2025, (Accepted/In press) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025. Chiruzzo, L., Ritter, A. & Wang, L. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 2809-2817 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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CALM: Unleashing the Cross-Lingual Self-Aligning Ability of Language Model
JI, H., WANG, Y., FAN, Z., WANG, Q. & FUNG, Y. R., Apr 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Paper › peer-review
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End-to-end optimization for multimodal retrieval-augmented generation via reward backpropagation
Fan, Z., Yun, L., Yan, M., Wang, Y., Guo, D., Mak, B., Kwok, J. & Fung, Y. R., Nov 2025, EMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings of EMNLP 2025. Christodoulopoulos, C., Chakraborty, T., Rose, C. & Peng, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 443-466 24 p. (EMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings of EMNLP 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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From Pixels to Insights: A Survey on Automatic Chart Understanding in the Era of Large Foundation Models
Huang, K. H., Chan, H. P., Fung, M., Qiu, H., Zhou, M., Joty, S., Chang, S. F. & Ji, H., 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 37, 5, p. 2550-2568 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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Let’s Reason Formally: Natural-Formal Hybrid Reasoning Enhances LLM’s Math Capability
WANG, R., LI, Y., FUNG, M. & Zhang, T., Nov 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Paper › peer-review
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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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Enhancing MLLM Agent Reasoning and Creativity
FUNG, M. (Invited speaker)
Dec 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited
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Towards Deeper Multi-Modal LLM Agent Reasoning
FUNG, M. (Invited speaker)
2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited
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Multimodal Deep Research Agents
FUNG, M. (Invited speaker)
2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited