Industrial Collaboration

Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd

Upgraded from the former "PolyU-OPPO Joint Innovation Lab", the "PolyU-OPPO Joint Innovation Research Centre" has been established since January 2025. The centre not only continues the ongoing research on artificial intelligence (AI) driven computational imaging, but also conducts more comprehensive and in-depth research that covers the applications of smartphone AI imaging at all levels.

PolyU and OPPO have successfully commercialised research outcomes and jointly nurtured a number of AI talents through their partnership over the past few years. PolyU PhD students who joined the former Joint Lab have been closely working with OPPO engineers and have developed sophisticated Generative AI algorithms, which can instantly process unclear pictures on smartphones, resulting in high-resolution and realistic pictures to the naked eye. This innovation has already been integrated into OPPO’s flagship smartphones.

Accel Group Holdings Limited

PolyU and Accel Group Holdings Limited have established the “PolyU-Accel Group Metaverse+ Joint Laboratory.” This Joint Lab aims to advance metaverse technology research and applications across sectors, promote Hong Kong's development as a green and smart city, enhance industry-academia collaboration, and cultivate talent.

Jinan Boyushenhang Information Technology Group Co., Ltd. and Jsmart Technologies Limited

The PolyU Embodied Artificial Intelligence Lab at COMP, supported by Jinan Boyushenhang Information Technology Group and Jsmart Technologies, aims to advance research in embodied artificial intelligence in complex real-world environments. The lab seeks to promote harmonious human-machine coexistence in HKSAR and beyond.

The lab's preliminary demonstration features a robotic dog that follows human instructions in Putonghua, Cantonese, and English. Led by Dr LI Jing, the demonstration showcases the lab's research on AnglE, an embedding model for action matching. Remarkably, this model has been downloaded over 5.16 million times on Hugging Face in just one year.

Huawei Hong Kong

The Department of Computing at PolyU and Huawei Hong Kong have established an ICT Academy to cultivate high-quality ICT talents in Hong Kong. Through a collaborative framework, they will align with the university's professional standards to develop talent programs in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and related fields, incorporating Huawei's certified technology and training courses.

Red Date Technology

PolyU and Red Date Technology have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities for collaboration in the field of blockchain. Uniting the strengths of the two innovative and forward-thinking organisations, the MoU serves as a framework for further discussion on blockchain research, application and education, addressing practical needs and the popularisation of blockchain. This collaboration will be led by COMP and Research Centre for Blockchain Technology.

Peng Cheng Laboratory

Participating in this collaboration, COMP will leverage its expertise to support PolyU and Peng Cheng Laboratory (PCL) advancing the growth of Big Data Analytics, Advanced Networks, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Blockchains, and Smart Health through the sharing of lab equipment and scientific research resources, thus to foster the development of groundbreaking technologies, as well as academic exchanges and talent cultivation.

The strategic cooperation will further exploit PolyU and PCL’s research predominance and excellence. It will bring new opportunities to both parties, strengthen the connection with industrial partners and contribute to the Greater Bay Area with practical and impactful innovations.

TCL Group

Cooperation with TCL Group sets a framework for collaboration to develop research in science and technology, as well as for developing and implementing applied research projects in innovative Artificial Intelligence. Through this alliance, both parties aim to promote the long-term development of AI, identify new applications, explore more innovative technologies, attract R&D experts and cultivate AI talents.