Research and Technology Forum Highlights CSE's Research and Industry Engagement

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) hosted its Research and Technology Forum cum Get-together Event 2026 on 15 April at the Engineering Commons, welcoming more than 80 attendees for an afternoon of research sharing, industry exchange, and community networking. Hosted by Prof. Guo Song, Associate Head (Research & Knowledge Transfer) of Department of CSE, and Prof. Gary Chan, Professor of Department of CSE, the event brought together faculty members, industry speakers, students, and graduates to celebrate innovation and foster collaboration across the CSE community.

Prof. Guo Song opened the event with a brief introduction to the CSE Department, highlighting its recent achievements and continued progress in research, education, and knowledge transfer.

In the faculty research session, speakers presented recent advances across intelligent healthcare, software evolution, embodied AI, privacy-preserving search, and AI agent security. Prof. Qian Zhang introduced her team's work on intelligent sensing for chronic disease management, while Dr. Jiasi Shen discussed automated techniques for software migration and evolution. Dr. Chaojian Li shared insights into efficiency challenges in spatial and embodied intelligence, Dr. Mingxun Zhou highlighted practical progress in private information retrieval, and Dr. Shuai Wang examined the emerging security concerns surrounding the AI agent economy. Together, the presentations reflected the department's strong research breadth and its emphasis on real-world impact.

The industry insights session offered practical perspectives on how AI is being deployed in different sectors. Mr. Samson Li, Director of CarryAI Company Limited, discussed the use of VLMs in construction, facilities management, education, and robotics. Mr. Gao Han, vLLM-Omni Maintainer at Huawei, introduced vLLM-Omni and its extension from text generation to omni-modality comprehension and generation, while Ms. Tiffany Qiu, CEO of Oxbridge Economics Limited, demonstrated how text mining and econometric modeling can convert policy information into actionable macroeconomic signals. Mr. Dante Lok, Senior AI Research Engineer at Votee AI Limited, presented his work on function-preserving growth in neural networks and the challenge of catastrophic forgetting. The session underscored the growing relevance of AI tools in industry applications and decision-making.

The student and graduate showcase further demonstrated the depth of talent within the department. Dr. Wenxue LI introduced DCP, a new RDMA transport architecture for lossy Ethernet fabrics, while Dr. Qingyong HU presented WaveBP, a contactless arterial blood pressure waveform monitoring system using mmWave radar. Dr. Zongjie Li discussed model-centric skill engineering for agentic systems, and Ms. JIAN Yu Kei shared an infrastructure-free indoor localization system based on mobile-device inertial sensors. Their presentations highlighted the department's strong pipeline of emerging research and innovation.

The event concluded with a networking lunch, offering participants a relaxed setting to reconnect, exchange ideas, and explore new opportunities for collaboration. With enthusiastic participation from faculty, industry partners, students, and graduates, the forum not only showcased CSE's research and innovation strengths, but also strengthened the sense of community that continues to drive the department forward. The department looks forward to welcoming everyone again at future events and to building on the fruitful conversations sparked at this year's gathering.

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