Research Projects

^ Funding Scheme
GRF: General Research Fund by Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee
ECS: Early Career Scheme by Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee

Principal Investigator	Funding Scheme^	Project Title
Prof. HUANG Jian Chair Professor of Data Science and Analytics	GRF	Sufficient and Invariant Representation Learning: with Applications to Transfer Learning
Prof. JIANG Binyan Associate Head (Teaching) and Associate Professor	GRF	Dynamic Networks with Degree Heterogeneity and Homophily: A Convex Loss Approach and Beyond
Prof. QI Houduo Professor	GRF	Matrix Optimization of Eulcidean Embedding: Stability, Algorithms and Applications
Prof. TAN Kay Chen Head and Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence	GRF	Towards Efficient Large Model Training via Learning from Small Models
Prof. WU Jibin Assistant Professor	GRF	Sense Like Your Brain: Advancing Audio-Visual Perception and Understanding with Brain-inspired Technologies
Prof. YUAN Yancheng Assistant Professor	ECS	An efficient sieving based secant method for nonconvex optimization problems with applications in structured learning models with noisy observations

Principal Investigator	Funding Scheme^	Project Title
Prof. QI Houduo Professor	GRF	Newton Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Sparse Composite Optimization
Prof. TAN Kay Chen Head and Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence	GRF	Towards Lightweight Optimization for Complex Problems
Prof. WU Jibin Assistant Professor	ECS	Towards Neuroscience-inspired Neural Architecture Design

Principal Investigator	Funding Scheme^	Project Title
Prof. HAN Ruijian Assistant Professor	ECS	Statistical Analysis of Comparison Data with an Informative Comparison Graph Structure
Prof. JIANG Binyan Associate Head (Teaching) and Associate Professor	GRF	Autoregressive Networks with Degree Heterogeneity
Prof. KUMAR Ajay Associate Head (Research) and Professor	GRF	Seeing the World Behind 2D Images: Neural Light Fields for 3D Scene Representation and Understanding
Prof. LIN Wanyu Assistant Professor	GRF	Towards Privacy-Preserving Explainability for Graph Neural Networks
Prof. LIU Catherine C. Associate Professor	GRF	Statistical Learning for 2D Medical Images with Application to Ophthalmic Scans
Prof. TAN Kay Chen Head and Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence	GRF	Advancing Multi-task Designs for Large-scale Multi-objective Optimization