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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) announces the establishment of the new School of Computing and Data Science (CDS) to consolidate and advance education and research across the fields of computing and data science, artificial intelligence (AI), statistical decision sciences, fintech, and actuarial science.

Professor Reynold CHENG appeared in RTHK programme – 未來·無限 on 21 September, 2024. Professor Reynold Cheng, Division Head of Computer Science, recently featured in a prominent radio programme. In the interview, he shared insights on his research in data science, focusing on high-performance algorithms for big data and artificial intelligence.

On 30 August 2024, our newly established School of Computing and Data Science (CDS) celebrated its inaugural gathering, bringing together faculty and administrative staff from the Departments of Computer Science and Statistics & Actuarial Science. This momentous occasion marked the beginning of a collaborative journey aimed at fostering innovation and multidisciplinary research.

This workshop provides comprehensive coverage of five different topics in the field of AI. The first topic deals with real-world AI applications and highlights the important role of AI in developing and improving the modeling of user behavior in recommender systems. The second theme looks at the immersive world of the metaverse and explores its potential to enhance and reshape our everyday experiences. The third theme looks at computer vision, covering fundamental concepts and techniques from both traditional geometric approaches and recent advances in deep learning. The fourth topic looks at the fascinating journey of Large Language Models (LLMs), tracing their historical context and evolution as indispensable tools for natural language processing. Finally, the workshop explores Wireless Sensing AI, a breakthrough technology that extends machine perception beyond vision by using AI to transform Wi-Fi devices into a versatile all-in-one sensing platform.

The world is highly complex and full of uncertain events. How can we formulate and answer questions when things seem to be so random? In this 5-day workshop, we will give you the practical experience of how to use the rigorous tools of statistics to address this question. You will learn the language of probability and its paradoxes, the causes and dangers of bias and how to predict the future and make decisions.

A big shout out to Prof. Chao HUANG and his research team for having four papers listed as the Most Influential Papers in Version 2024-05 in The Web Conference (WWW) & ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR). These prestigious conferences are renowned for Data Science, Information Retrieval, and Web Intelligence. Their papers, with Prof. HUANG being the corresponding author, received top rankings in ACM WWW 2023, ACM SIGIR 2023, and ACM SIGIR 2021 for their impactful research work.

Congratulations to the following Professors for receiving the General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) from Research Grants Council (RGC) in the 2024/25 Exercise. They are entitled to HKD$8.8M in total for the proposed projects.

HKU 2024 Summer Workshop on Statistics and Data Science is organized by the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Hong Kong. We aim to bring together a few leading researchers in statistics and data science to discuss interesting researches and improve in-person interactions of the data science community.

Professor Dong XU establishes the JC STEM lab of Multimedia and Machine Learning with HKD$10M funding support from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.

2022 Nobel Prize winner – Professor John Francis CLAUSER spoke to a full house at the Computer Science Distinguished Lecture organised by the Department of Computer Science and HKU-SCF FinTech Academy.

We are delighted to announce that five CS colleagues, Professors Reynold CK CHENG, Zhiyi HUANG, Taku KOMURA, Ping LUO and Hengshuang ZHAO received the 2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention by AMiner.

Dr Yuxiang Yang is one of the eight HKU young scientists being awarded the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau) by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for 2023.