Academic Staff
Faculty Members
Professor Zijun ZHANG
Head and Professor
BEng (Chinese University of Hong Kong), MSc and PhD (University of Iowa)
BEng (Chinese University of Hong Kong), MSc and PhD (University of Iowa)
Research Interest: Data Analytics, Computational Intelligence, System Modeling and Optimization, Renewable Energy
Professor Lishuai LI
Associate Head and Associate Professor
Director of Flagship Programme of College of Computing
BEng (Fudan University), MSc and PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Director of Flagship Programme of College of Computing
BEng (Fudan University), MSc and PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Research Interest: Intelligent Transportation Systems, Air Transport and Operations, Data Mining and Computational Intelligence
Professor Way KUO
Senior Fellow of Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study
Emeritus President and University Distinguished Professor
Emeritus President and University Distinguished Professor
Research Interest: Modeling, Evaluating and Estimating Reliability of Modern Systems, with Emphasis on Optimal System Design; Reliability Design for Microelectronics and Nano Products
Professor Jianping WANG
Dean of College of Computing
Chair Professor of Computer Science
BSc MSc NankaiU, PhD Texas (Dallas), Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AAIA
Chair Professor of Computer Science
BSc MSc NankaiU, PhD Texas (Dallas), Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AAIA
Research Interest: Autonomous Driving; Service-oriented Networking; Cloud Computing; Multicast; Optical Networking
Professor Jun WANG
Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence
BEng and MEng (Dalian University of Technology), PhD (Case Western Reserve University)
BEng and MEng (Dalian University of Technology), PhD (Case Western Reserve University)
Research Interest: Computational Intelligence; Neural Computation; Optimization Methods; Data Processing; Intelligent Control
Professor Jonathan ZHU
Chair Professor of Computational Social Science
BA and MA (Fudan University), PhD (Indiana University)
BA and MA (Fudan University), PhD (Indiana University)
Research Interest: Structure, Diffusion; Use and Effect of New Media; Network Analysis of Online Communications; Web Mining, e-Social Science; Quantitative Research Methodology; Statistical Analysis; Social Computing
Professor Minghua CHEN
Associate Dean (Internationalisation and Industry) of College of Computing
Professor
BEng and MSc (Tsinghua University), PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Professor
BEng and MSc (Tsinghua University), PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Research Interest: Online Optimization and Algorithms, Capitalizing the Benefit of Data-driven Prediction in Algorithm/System Design, Machine Learning in Networked and Societal Systems, Energy Systems (e.g., smart power grids and energy-efficient data centers), Intelligent Transportation Systems, Delay-constrained Networking
Professor Matthias Hwai-yong TAN
Associate Professor
BEng (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia), MEng (National University of Singapore), PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology)
BEng (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia), MEng (National University of Singapore), PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Research Interest: Statistical Modeling and Inference for Engineering, Uncertainty Quantification in Computer Simulations, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Statistical Quality Improvement
Professor Qi WU
Associate Professor
BEng (Wuhan University), MSc (Peking University), PhD (Columbia University)
BEng (Wuhan University), MSc (Peking University), PhD (Columbia University)
Research Interest: Quantitative Finance, Financial Technology, Business Analytics
Professor Li ZENG
Associate Professor
BEng and MSc (Tsinghua University), MSc and PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
BEng and MSc (Tsinghua University), MSc and PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Research Interest: Statistical Machine Learning, Quality Engineering, Data Analytics in Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering
Professor Yining DONG
Assistant Professor
BEng (Tsinghua University), PhD (University of Southern California)
BEng (Tsinghua University), PhD (University of Southern California)
Research Interest: Process Data Analytics, Multivariate Time Series Modeling, Statistical Machine Learning, Smart Manufacturing and New Material Design
Professor Clint Chin Pang HO
Assistant Professor
BSc (University of California, Los Angeles), MSc (University of Oxford), PhD (Imperial College London)
BSc (University of California, Los Angeles), MSc (University of Oxford), PhD (Imperial College London)
Research Interest: Decision Making under Uncertainty, Robust Optimization, Computational Optimization, Operations Research
Professor Qing KE
Assistant Professor
BEng and MSc (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), PhD (Indiana University)
BEng and MSc (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), PhD (Indiana University)
Research Interest: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Intellectual Property, Patents, Science and Technology Policy, Economic Geography, China, Network Science, Social Computing, Social Media
Professor Samuel Chun Pong LAU
Assistant Professor
BSc and MPhil (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), MS (University of Maryland, College Park) and PhD (Johns Hopkins University)
BSc and MPhil (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), MS (University of Maryland, College Park) and PhD (Johns Hopkins University)
Research Interest: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Biometrics, Adversarial Robustness, Generative AI, Scientific Computing
Professor Linyan LI
Assistant Professor
BEng (Tsinghua University), MSc and PhD (Harvard University)
BEng (Tsinghua University), MSc and PhD (Harvard University)
Research Interest: Spatial analysis, Healthcare data analytics, Environmental health, Smart city, Real world evidence (RWE)
Professor Xinyue LI
Assistant Professor
BA and MSc (University of Chicago), PhD (Yale University)
BA and MSc (University of Chicago), PhD (Yale University)
Research Interest: Wearable Device Data Analysis, Statistical Genetics, Electronic Health Record Analysis, Precision Medicine, Scalable Statistical Learning and Machine Learning Methods for Large Data Sets
Professor Ning MIAO
Assistant Professor
BS and MS (Peking University), PhD (University of Oxford)
BS and MS (Peking University), PhD (University of Oxford)
Research Interest: Large language models, especially their reasoning ability; Generative models; Natural language processing
Professor Hao PENG
Assistant Professor
BSc (Sun Yat-sen University), MSc (Indiana University), PhD (University of Michigan)
BSc (Sun Yat-sen University), MSc (Indiana University), PhD (University of Michigan)
Research Interest: Computational Social Science, Data Science, Science of Innovation, Social Networks, Network Science, Management Science, Complex Systems, Online Media, Diversity, Leadership, Communication, Ethnicity, Gender, NLP, AI
Professor Xiao QIAO
Assistant Professor
BSc (The Wharton School), BEng (University of Pennsylvania), PhD (University of Chicago)
BSc (The Wharton School), BEng (University of Pennsylvania), PhD (University of Chicago)
Research Interest: Financial Economics, Asset Pricing, Financial Data Analytics and Risk Management
Professor Lijia WANG
Assistant Professor
BS (University of California, Irvine), MS and PhD (University of Southern California)
BS (University of California, Irvine), MS and PhD (University of Southern California)
Research Interest: Network data analysis; Partial information in social networks; Local clustering; Multiple testing; Confidence interval; Naymen-Person classification; Asymmetric error control; Machine learning.
Professor Ye WEI
Assistant Professor
BSc (University of Twente), PhD (Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials)
BSc (University of Twente), PhD (Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials)
Research Interest: Applied and Computational Mathematics, Rare Event, Stochastic Modelling and Simulation, Energy Landscape, Machine Learning
Professor Yi YANG
Assistant Professor
BS (Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University), MS and PhD (University of Minnesota)
BS (Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University), MS and PhD (University of Minnesota)
Research Interest: Variable selection in high-dimensional data, statistical methods for analysis of whole-genome sequencing data, knockoff statistics, Bayesian hierarchical models.
Professor Yu YANG
Assistant Professor
BEng (Hefei University of Technology), MEng (University of Science and Technology of China), PhD (Simon Fraser University)
BEng (Hefei University of Technology), MEng (University of Science and Technology of China), PhD (Simon Fraser University)
Research Interest: Large-scale Graph Mining, Data Mining and Processing, Stochastic and Combinatorial Optimization, Influence/Information Diffusion in Networks, Dense Subgraph Detection, Graph Representation
Professor Lu YU
Assistant Professor
BS (Shandong University), MS (University of Washington), and PhD (University of Toronto)
BS (Shandong University), MS (University of Washington), and PhD (University of Toronto)
Research Interest: Machine Learning Theory, Stochastic Optimization, and High-Dimensional Statistics.
Professor Xiangyu ZHAO
Assistant Professor
BEng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), MSc (University of Science and Technology of China), and PhD (Michigan State University)
BEng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), MSc (University of Science and Technology of China), and PhD (Michigan State University)
Research Interest: Machine Learning and Data Mining, Reinforcement Learning/AutoML/Multimodal, Information Retrieval (Recommender Systems, Online Advertising, Search Engine), Urban Computing and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis, AI for Social Computing/Finance/Education/Ecosystem/Healthcare
Professor Zimu ZHOU
Assistant Professor
BEng (Tsinghua University), PhD (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
BEng (Tsinghua University), PhD (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Research Interest: Machine Learning for Mobile and IoT Systems, Ubiquitous Sensing, Urban Computing and Spatiotemporal Data Management.
Professor Xinke LI
Research Assistant Professor
BSc (Jilin University), MSc (National University of Singapore), PhD (National University of Singapore)
BSc (Jilin University), MSc (National University of Singapore), PhD (National University of Singapore)
Research Interest: 3D Computer Vision, Data-centric Deep Learning, Trustworthy AI, AI for Biomedicine.