Academic Staff

Professor QIN Si Zhao Joe

Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science

 Phone:  (852) 26168876

 Email:    [email protected]

 Office:   MB405

President, Office of the President

Research Interests:

• Data Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Process Monitoring
• Model Predictive Control
• System Identification
• Smart Manufacturing, Smart Cities

Professor CHAN Raymond Hon Fu

Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Scientific Computing

 Phone:  (852) 26168288

 Email:    [email protected]

 Office:   AD310/7

Vice-President (Academics) cum Provost

Research Interests:

• Numerical Linear Algebra
• Numerical Analysis
• Image Processing
• Financial Mathematics

Professor YAO Xin

Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning

 Phone:  (852) 26168879

 Email:   [email protected]

 Office:   MB408

Vice-President (Research and Innovation)

Research Interests:

• Evolutionary Computation
• Intelligence Optimisation
• Machine Learning and AI

Professor KWONG Sam Tak Wu

J. K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence

 Phone:  (852) 26168022

 Email:   [email protected]

 Office:   AD104/8

Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research)

Dean, School of Graduate Studies 

Acting Dean, School of Data Science

Research Interests:

• Evolutionary Algorithms
• Video Coding
• Machine Learning

Professor XIE Haoran

Associate Professor

 Phone:  (852) 26168129

 Email:   [email protected]

 Office:   SEK212/7

Acting Associate Dean, School of Data Science

Research Interests:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Natural Language Processing
• Computational Lingustics
• Large Language Model
• Educational Technologies

Professor CHIU Hon Wing, Billy 

Assistant Professor

 Phone:  (852) 26168095

 Email:   [email protected]

 Office:  SEK212/8

Research Interests:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing

Professor SHEN Jiaxing 

Assistant Professor

 Phone:  (852) 26168377

 Email:   [email protected]

 Office:   SEK212/6

Programme Coordinator, Master of Science in Data Science

Research Interests:

• Human Dynamics
• IoT
• Mobile Computing
• Data Mining
• Social Computing
• Affective Computing

Professor LI Zongxi 

Assistant Professor 

 Phone:  (852) 26168909

 Email:    [email protected]

 Office:   SEK212/13

Research Interests:

• Natural Language Processing
• Large Language Models
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Professor WANG Yu 

Assistant Professor

(Effective: Aug 2024)

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Research Interests:

• Natural Language Processing
• Social Media
• Interorganisational Governance
• Contract Management

Professor Mo Yanfang

Assistant Professor

(Effective: Aug 2024)

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 Office:  

Research Interests:

• Automatic Control
• Data Science
• Optimization
• System and Automation

Professor FONG Chi Kit, Ken

Assistant Professor of Teaching

 Phone:  (852) 26168123

 Email:    [email protected]

 Office:   SEK212/5

Associate Programme Coordinator, Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics 

Research Interests:

• Algorithms Design and Analysis
• Combinatorial Optimization
• Scheduling
• Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design

Prof. YU Lisha

Assistant Professor of Teaching

(Effective: Aug 2024)

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Research Interests:

• Statistical Learning
• Machine Learning
• Quality Engineering
• Health Monitoring and Management

Dr. JI Jingyu

Research Assistant Professor

 Phone:  (852) 26167844

 Email:    [email protected]

 Office:   SEK202

Research Interests:

• Computational Intelligence
• Nemerical Optimization
• Expensive Optimization

Dr. LEE Kwan Yeung, Kester

Research Assistant Professor

 Phone:  (852) 26167843

 Email:    [email protected]

 Office:   SEK202

Research Interests:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Bioinformatics