Research

Current Team Members

• Dr Yue Pang (Postdoctoral Fellow, started in August 2025)

• Dr Chrysanthi Kosyfaki (Postdoctoral Fellow, started in May 2025)

• Ms Nujibieke Shabuerjiang  (Research Assistant, started in April 2025)

• Ms Tiansy Shi (Lab Manager, started in December 2025) 

Allifiated Team Members

• Dr Ruiyuan Zhang (STEM Talent Fellow, July 2022 - July 2025) Now with HKGAI.

Current Visitors

• Mr Wei Chen (PhD student, HKUST GZ, supervised by Prof Yuxuan Liang, since August 2025)

Previous Team Members

• Dr Jingzhi Fang (STEM Talent Fellow, September 2024 - December 2025) Left to be a researcher at Huawei.

• Dr Qintian Guo (STEM Talent Fellow, August 2024 - January 2026) Left to be a Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology.

• Dr Ziyi Liu (Research Assistant Professor, Dec 2023 - December 2025) Left to be a Professor at Soochow University.

• Dr Jingliang Deng (Postdoc Fellow, March 2024 - January 2026) Left to be a Professor at Beihang University.

• Ms Bilan Chen (Research Assistant, Jan 2024 - November 2025)

• Ms Hedy Yijin Song (from Cornell, Summer 2025)

• Ms Lauren Lee (from Yale, Summer 2025)

• Ms Sherry Sau Lai Yip (Research Assistant, June - August 2025)

• Mr Chen Song (Research Assistant, March - August 2025)

• Prof Lei Zou (Peking University, May - July 2025)

• Dr Shimin Di ( STEM Talent Fellow, started in February 2022; a Research Assistant Professor from December 2023 to April 2025) Now a Professor at Southeast University, China.

• Dr Boyu Ruan (STEM Talent Fellow, July 2023 - November 2024) Now a Researcher at Huawei HK.

• Prof Jia Zhu (Zhejiang Normal University, May-August 2024)

• Ms Zihan Luo (PhD student, HKUST GZ, Jan - August 2024)

• Mr Yue Liu (Research Assistant, March-August 2023) Now converted to my PhD student.

• Dr Kai Huang (Postdoc Research Fellow, May 2021 - August 2023; and STEM Talent Fellow since Feb 2022) Left to take an Assistant Professor position at Macao University of Science and Technology.

• Ms Gaoya Ouyang (Research Assistant, March 2022 - June 2023)

• Dr Qiyu Liu (STEM Talent Fellow, March 2022 - June 2023)

• Mr Xi Zhao (Research Assistant, September 2021 - August 2022) Left to take a PhD position at HKUST.

• Dr Lei Li (Postdoc Research Fellow at UQ, Postdoc Research Fellow at UQ, Oct 2018 - Jan 2022) Left to take an Assistant Professor position at HKUST (GZ).

• Dr Dan He (Postdoc Research Fellow at UQ, Jan 2020 - Dec 2022). Left to take Research Scientist position at Queensland Government.

• Dr Pingfu Chao (Postdoc Research Fellow, Jan 2020 - July 2021) Left to take an Associate Professor position at Soochow University.

• Dr Jiangfeng Xu (Postdoc Research Fellow, December 2019 - November 2020) Left to take an Associate Professor position at Soochow University.

• Dr Junhao Gan (Postdoc Research Fellow, March 2017 - July 2018) Left to take a Lecturer position at The University of Melbourne.

• Dr Sibo Wang (Postdoc Research Fellow, April 2017 - Dec 2018) Left to take an Assistant Professor position at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Dr Bolong Zheng (Postdoc Research Fellow, January - August 2016) Left to take a postdoc position at Aalborg University, Denmark.

• Dr Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen (Postdoc Research Fellow, 2015 - 2017) Left to take a Lecturer position at Griffith University.

• Dr Wen Hua (Postdoc Research Fellow, 2016 - 2017) Left to take a Lecturer position at UQ.

• Dr Hongzhi Yin ( (Postdoc Research Fellow, 2015 - 2018) Left to take a Lecturer position at UQ.

• Dr Kevin Zheng (Postdoc Research Fellow, 2012 - 2016) Left to take a Professor position at Soochow University. 

• Dr Han Su (Postdoc Research Fellow, since January 2015) Left to take a postdoc position at the University of Southern California, USA.

• Dr Yi Yang (Postdoc Research Fellow, May 2013 - Jan 2014) Left to take a Senior Lecturer position at the University of Technology, Sydney. 

• Dr Ke Deng (Postdoc Research Fellow, October 2007 - December 2012) Left to take a Lecturer position at RMIT.

• Dr Sham Prasher (Postdoc Research Fellow, April 2011 - March 2013) Left to have a start-up.

• Dr Henning Koehler (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, August 2008 - February 2011) Left to take a Senior Lecturer position at Massey University, New Zealand.

• Dr Laurianne Sitbon (Postdoctoral Fellow, March - September 2010) Left to take a Lecturer position at QUT.

• Dr Gabriel Fung (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, January 2008 - December 2009) Left to take a postdoc position at the University of Arizona.

• Dr Stella Liping Wang (Postdoctoral Research Fellow,  March 2008 - March 2009) Left to take a postdoc position at Victoria University, Australia.

• Dr Sai Sun (Postdoc Research Fellow, 2006) Left to take a Research Scientist position at the National ICT Australia (NICTA).

• Dr Qing Liu (Postdoc Research Fellow, 2006) Left to take a Research Scientist position with CSIRO ICT Centre.

• Dr Yanfeng Shu (Postdoc Research Fellow, 2006) Left to take a Research Scientist position with CSIRO ICT Centre.

• Mr Mohamed Rafi Feroze (Research Officer, 2006) Left to do PhD at UQ.

Past Visitors

• Mr Ye Liu (PhD student, Chinese University of Science and Technology, May - Nov 2024)

• Mr Zhifei Yu (UG students, from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, August - September 2024)

• Mr Yuanzhe Li (UG student, from Southern University of Science and Technology, August - September 2024)

• Ms Jiawen Zhang (August 2023 - June 2024, PhD student, HKUST GZ)

• Mr Jian Yang (August 2023 - June 2024, PhD student, HKUST GZ)

• Mr Zhetao Zheng (August 2023 - Feb 2024, PhD student, University of Electrical Science and Technology of China)

• Mr Weijia Zhang (Sept 2023 - April 2024, PhD student, HKUST GZ)

• Mr Jianheng Tang (Sept 2023 - July 2024, PhD student, HKUST GZ)

• Mr Jianfeng Qu (Oct 2017 for 12 mths, a CSC funded PhD candidate from Jilin University)

• Mr Kankan Zhao (Nov 2017 for 12 mths, a CSC funded PhD student from Renmin University of China) 

• Ms Fengmei Jin (July 2017 for 12 mths, a Master student from Renmin University of China) 

• Prof Guangfeng Liu (June 2017 - June 2018, a visiting professor from Soochow University)

• Prof Liwei Wang (started in December 2017 for 12 mths, a CSC-funded visiting scholar from Wuhan University)

• Ms Yan Zhao (July - Sept 2017, a PhD student from Soochow University)

• Ms Wenling Zhang, Ms Jiali Yang, Ms Anqi Zhao (Nov 2017 - April 2018, visiting students from Soochow University)

• Mr Kangzhi Zhao (June-August 2017, PhD stdeunt from Tsinghua University)

• Prof Juan Deng (2017-2018, from Wuhan University)

• Mr Haiqiang Yang (started in Sept 2016 for 12 mths, PhD student in Harbin University of Technology, supported by Chinese Scholarship Council)

• Mr Wei Chen (started in October 2016 for 12 mths, PhD student from Soochow University, visiting scholar supported by Chinese Scholarship Council)

• Mr Thanh Tam Nguyen (14/08/2016 - 14/02/2017, PhD student in EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)

• Dr Bohan Li (Jan 2016 for 12 mths), NanHang University, visiting scholar supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council

• Mr Yuan Su (May 2016 for 12 mths, BeiYou University, visiting scholar supported by Chinese Scholarship Council

• Dr Hailong Liu (Jan 2015 to Dec 2016), Northwest Polytechnics University, visiting scholar supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council

• Mr Tieke He (Sept 2013 - Sept 2015), Nanjing University, visiting PhD intern supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council

• Prof Wen-Chih Peng (July 2014 - July 2015), National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

• Dr Lei Zhao (August 2014 - August 2015), Soochow University, visiting scholar supported by Jiangsu Province, China

• Dr Xian Wu (August 2014 - August 2015), Soochow University, visiting scholar supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council

• Mr Kang Qiu (June 2013 - June 2014), Public Security Bureau in Zibo, visiting scholar supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council

• Dr Yuwie Peng (Jan 2013 - Jan 2014), Wuhan University, visiting scholar supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council

• Ivor Tsang (December 2012), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• Mr Yilun Cai (August - December 2012, a PhD candidate from the University of Hong Kong, with Prof Nikos Mamoulis).

• Prof Elisa Bertino (May 2012), Purdue University, USA.

• Ms Wen Hua (September - December 2011), Renmin University of China, research intern.

• Prof Timos Sellis (March 2012), National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

• Prof Jian Pei (March 2012), Simon Fraser University, Canada.

• Prof Hanan Samet (April 2012), University of Maryland, USA.

• Dr Divesh Srivastava, Sept-October 2011, AT&T Research Labs

• Mr Chen Xu (April - July 2011), East China Normal University, research intern.

• Dr Reynold Cheng (June 2011), University of Hong Kong

• A/Prof Fuhao Zou (June 2010 - July 2011), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (the Chinese Scholarship Council supported postdoc fellow)

• Prof Kyoji Kawagoe (March - September 2010), Ritsumeikan University, Japan (sabbatical)

• A/Prof Liwei Wang (September 2008 - July 2010), Wuhan University, China

• Ms Jing Yang (August 2009 - July 2010), Renmin University of China (PhD intern)

• Prof Peter Scheuemann (May 2010), Northwestern University, USA (sabbatical)

• A/Prof Huangliang Sun (September 2008 - August 2009), Shenyang Jianzhu University (sabbatical)

• Mr Kuien Liu (November 2008 - November 2009), Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (PhD intern)

• Mr Wei Lu (January 2008 - January 2009), Renmin University, China (PhD intern)

• Mr Hu Xu (January 2008 - January 2009), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Chinese Scholarship Council funded PhD intern)

• Professor Wendy Wen-Rong Jiang (April 2007 - April 2008), Shanghai Second Polytechnics University, China (sabbatical)

• Mr Guowei Yang (August - October 2008), Hohaoi University, China (intern)

• Prof Hoang Quang (August - October 2008), Hui University, Vietnam (UN-Sponsored Visiting Scholar)

• Mr Himanshu Prakash (May - July 2007), IIT Kanpur, India (intern)

• Associate Professor Mitsuaki Nakasumi (April 2006 - March 2007), Komazawa University, Japan (sabbatical)

• Associate Professor Hyu Chan Park (August 2005 - February 2007), Korea Maritime University, Korea (sabbatical)

• Ms Yuan Shi and Mr Boxuan Zhai (September 2006 - March 2007), Wuhan University, China (interns)

• Professor Jeffrey Yu(July 2006), Chinese University of Hong Kong 

• Professor Tim Merrett (April 2006), McGill University, Canada (sabbatical)

• Ms Xia Cao (September - December 2005), National University of Singapore (intern)

• Mr Jizhou Lou (July - November 2005), Harbin Institute of Technology, China (intern)

• Mr Haijun Wu (July 2004 - July 2005), Nanjing University, China (sabbatical)

• Professor Zhiyong Peng (November 2004), Wuhan University, China 

• Professor Guihai Chen (July - August 2000), Nanjing University, China

• Professor Sanglu Lu (1999), Nanjing University, China.