Research Grants
[2026-2029] Entity-Relation Extraction for Domain-Specific Low-Resource Scenarios, NSFC General Program (#62576236), RMB 500,000, Co-Investigator
[2025-2027] Optimizing RAG with Dynamic Knowledge: Efficiency, Integration, and Adaptation, Huawei Talent Fund, HKD $990,000, Principal Investigator
[2024-2027] Topic Taxonomy Construction and Application in Box Embedding Spaces, NSFC General Program (#62372483), RMB 500,000, Co-Investigator
[2023-2027] Developing a Cost-effective Framework for Entity Alignment in Real-world Knowledge Graphs, PolyU Presidential Young Scholar Research Grant, HKD $3,281,400, Principal Investigator
[2022-2025] Context-aware Representation Learning for Code Analysis, Joint Research Grant with Oracle Labs Australia, AUD $148,000, Principal Investigator
[2022-2023] Solar Photovoltaics Forecasting for Efficient Power Management, ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (#LE220100022), AUD $475,000, Co-InvestigatorÂ
[2021-2026] ARC Industrial Transformation Training Center for Information Resilience (#IC200100022), AUD $13,883,406, Co-Investigator
[2021-2023] Information Extraction from Large-Scale Low-Quality Data, ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (#DE210100160), AUD $423,000, Principal Investigator
[2020-2023] Making Spatiotemporal Data More Useful: An Entity Linking Approach, ARC Discovery Project (#DP200103650), AUD $493,000, Principal Investigator
[2019-2023] Real-time Analytics on Urban Trajectory Data for Road Traffic Management, ARC Linkage Project (#LP180100018), AUD $480,000, Co-Investigator
[2019-2023] Collaborative Lab of Health Informatics with Neusoft China, AUD $937,000, Co-Investigator
[2017-2020] Machine Learning, Data Analytics and Knowledge Management for Microgrid Data, Advance Queensland Early Career Research Fellowship, AUD $397,000, Principal Investigator
[2017-2018] Realtime Battery Scheduling Based on Solar and Load Forecasting, UQ Start-Up Research Grant, AUD $50,000, Principal Investigator
Research Team
Boyan Liu (PhD): To start in September 2026
Houling Shen (URIS): To start in September 2026
Yu Lin (URIS): To start in September 2026
Ziyang Tian (URIS): To start in September 2026
Zitong Gu (URIS): To start in September 2026
Shuang Shan (URIS): Started in September 2025, Topic: Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Inference of LLMs on Edge Devices
Wenlong Liu (PhD): Started in September 2024, Topic: Knowledge Graph Reasoning under Unreliable Evidence
Shiqi Fan (PhD): Started in September 2024, Topic: Evidence-Grounded LLM Reasoning for Temporal Knowledge Graphs
Jiayun Li (PhD): Started in January 2023, Topic: Entity Alignment Across Temporal Knowledge Graphs
Alumni
Ziyi Liu (PhD): Completed in August 2023, Thesis: A Study on Multi-Constraint Shortest Path Queries in Road Network. Work as Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
Fengmei Jin (PhD): Completed in August 2023, Thesis: A Study on Privacy Protection Techniques for Spatiotemporal Data. Work as Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Bing Liu (PhD): Completed in August 2023, Thesis: Practical Neural Entity Alignment. Work at OPPO Research Institute, China
Kexuan Xin (PhD): Completed in September 2022, Thesis: A Study on Embedding-based Entity Alignment. Work as Postdoc at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Tianyu Zhu (MPhil): Completed in July 2021, Thesis: Countering Lead Bias in Extractive Document Summarization. Work at Lazada Alibaba, China
Mengxuan Zhang (PhD & Postdoc): Completed in March 2021, Thesis: Efficient Shortest Path Query Processing in Dynamic Road Networks. Work as Senior Lecturer at Australian National University, Australia
Jianfeng Qu (PhD & Postdoc): Completed in December 2020, Thesis: A Study on Key Techniques for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction. Work as Associate Professor at Renmin University of China, China
Yu Liu (PhD): Completed in December 2020, Thesis: A Study on Temporal Knowledge Graph Enrichment. Work as Assistant Professor at University of International Relations, China
Pingfu Chao (PhD): Completed in December 2019, Thesis: A Study on Map-Matching and Map Inference Problems. Work as Associate Professor at Soochow University, China
Lei Li (PhD): Completed in July 2018, Thesis: A Study on Time-Dependent Reachability and Route Scheduling in Road Networks. Work as Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China