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The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has established critical mass in a few research areas that are relevant to the needs of society and that can be sustained by talents from the local community. These areas are:
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence research studies how computers can be made to exhibit intelligent behavior in performing certain tasks, which, at the moment, are often done better by human beings. These tasks include speech and language processing, vision, motion control, reasoning, planning, decision making, and learning.
Subareas
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning:
Fangzhen Lin
Affiliated Labs & Centers
Cybersecurity (SEC)
The Cybersecurity group develops cutting edge ideas and tools to greatly strengthen the resistance of computer systems to malicious threats. The group works on all major areas of cyber security such as security, privacy, and cryptography. We aims to be a key voice of cyber security locally in Hong Kong, of greater China, and at the world stage.
Subareas
Cryptography:
Cunsheng Ding,
Dimitris Papadopoulos
Affiliated Labs & Centers
Data, Knowledge and Information Management (DB)
Research in Data, Knowledge and Information Management draws upon techniques from the database, knowledge base, information retrieval, software engineering and networking areas and focuses primarily on the effective integration and application of technologies from these areas. It is driven by the need of existing and emerging data-, knowledge- and information-intensive applications in both centralized and distributed environments.
Subareas
Information Retrieval and Search Engine:
Wilfred Ng,
Xiaofang Zhou
Hardware Accelerated Data Processing:
Qiong Luo
Database Theory and Stream Data Processing:
Ke Yi
Data Integration and Knowledge Graphs:
Lei Chen,
Wilfred Ng,
Raymond Wong,
Tong Zhang,
Xiaofang Zhou
Data-driven Machine Learning:
Lei Chen,
Qiong Luo,
Dimitris Papadias,
Raymond Wong,
Ke Yi,
Tong Zhang,
Xiaofang Zhou
Affiliated Labs & Centers
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Human-Computer Interaction research focuses on data-driven approaches to empowering the seamless integration of the digital realm and the physical world with an emphasis on designing technologies that better fulfill human needs and values. The major research areas include interactive data visualization, augmented reality, affective computing, computational linguistics, and HCI techniques for healthcare, education, e-commerce, robotics, and social welfare.
Affiliated Labs & Centers
Networking and Computer Systems (NE)
Faculty members in Networking and Computer Systems are conducting cutting edge research that is at the heart of the Information Technology revolution. Their research covers wide and well integrated topics that can be classified as follows: networking equipment, networking applications, networking protocols and networking security.
Subareas
Internet of Things and Sensor Networks:
Gary Chan,
Qian Zhang
Mobile Systems and Applications:
Gary Chan,
Qian Zhang
Big Data and Machine Learning for Networks and Systems:
Gary Chan,
Kai Chen,
Bo Li,
Wei Wang,
Qian Zhang
Affiliated Labs & Centers
Intelligent System and Networking Research Group (iSING Lab)
Software Engineering and Programming Languages (SEPL)
The Software Engineering and Programming Languages group aims to advance and develop solutions to real-world software development problems. Research in the group includes software analysis, testing, verification, static analysis, type systems, debugging, synthesis, repository mining, empirical methods, application of AI in programming, language understanding, parallel and functional programming, compiler design, blockchain, smart contracts, decentralized applications and end-user programming.
Subareas
Program Analysis and Testing:
Shing-Chi Cheung,
Amir Goharshady,
Jiasi Shen,
Shuai Wang,
Charles Zhang
Empirical Software Engineering and Mining Software Repository:
Shing-Chi Cheung,
Sunghun Kim,
Jiasi Shen
Concurrency and Parallel Programming:
Qiong Luo,
Charles Zhang
Compilers and Program Optimization:
Lionel Parreaux,
Jiasi Shen
Foundations of Software and Type Systems:
Amir Goharshady,
Lionel Parreaux
Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications:
Shing-Chi Cheung,
Amir Goharshady,
Shuai Wang
Affiliated Labs & Centers
Theoretical Computer Science (TH)
The Theoretical Computer Science group studies fundamental problems arising from a variety of computational applications, looks for efficient approaches to solving them, and determines their inherent complexity. In particular, the group's research covers the following topics: design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, computational geometry, information theory, coding theory, cryptography, and database theory.
Subareas
Computational Geometry:
Sunil Arya,
Siu-Wing Cheng
Coding Theory and Cryptography:
Cunsheng Ding
Vision and Graphics (VG)
The Vision and Graphics group leads research in image analysis, computer vision and computer graphics. Computer Vision and Image Analysis focuses on the challenge of making computers see and understand images while Computer Graphics focuses on the challenge of making computers create pictures. The major research areas under investigation include computer vision, computer graphics, medical image, biometric systems and video processing.
Subareas
Vision, Recognition and Learning:
Hao Chen,
Qifeng Chen,
Tim Cheng,
Ting-Chuen Pong,
Pedro Sander,
Chi-Keung Tang,
Dan Xu,
Sai-Kit Yeung
Graphics and Interactive Techniques:
Huamin Qu,
Long Quan,
Pedro Sander,
Chiew-Lan Tai,
Chi-Keung Tang,
Sai-Kit Yeung
3D Reconstruction:
Long Quan,
Sai-Kit Yeung
3D Visualization:
Huamin Qu
Medical Image Analysis:
Hao Chen
Affiliated Labs & Centers
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Last updated on 2023-03-23
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