Alibaba - PolyU Big Data & Cloud Computing | Research and Innovation Office

Alibaba - PolyU Big Data & Cloud Computing
The purpose of this platform is to develop collaborations to promote and develop academic collaborations which include but are not limited to the following:

Exchange of research and professional knowledge;
Visiting academic staffs and students;
Joint supervision of research students;
Joint seminar/workshop/conference;
Collaboration in technology development and the promotion of research outputs; and
Joint participation in internationally funded projects.

Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR)
Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR) is a global research program initiated by Alibaba Group, aiming at exploring innovative science and technology. To cultivate collaborations, a variety of programs are designed to provide resources and support to the academic and research communities.
AIR Leaflet

1. Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR)

Several PolyU proposals are successfully selected for AIR funding since 2017. In AIR 2021, a collaborative research project “Identification, Tracking and Behavior Mining in Retail Store Powered by COTS RFIDs” led by Dr. Lei YANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Computing is supported by Alibaba.

Please check for AIR programme 2021 for details

2. Alibaba Research Fellow (ARF) - for research scholars

3. Alibaba Research Intern (RI) - for PhD students

For enquiries, please contact:
Mr. Samuel Yeung
PolyU red_05 hfyeung@polyu.edu.hk
PolyU red_06 +852 3400 2815

January 2020: PolyU students leverage industry experience and shine at AI challenge
March 2020: A collaborative research project of modelling the COVID-19 pandemic led by the research team from PolyU Department of Applied Mathematics and the PolyU School of Nursing is supported by Alibaba.
Please click HERE for more detail

April 2018: Professor Alex Wai, Vice President (Research Development) of PolyU led the team from the Faculty of Engineering and the Innovation and Technology Development Office to have in-depth discussion with Mr. Zhang Jianfeng, Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba for more high-impact collaborations.
April 2018: At Alibaba Annual Research Collaboration Summit, Professor Cao Jiannong, Chair Professor of Department of Computing gave a keynote speech on Smart Internet of Things. Professor Zhang Lei, the Chair Professor & Associate Head of Department of Computing, was presented with The Best Partner Award in Alibaba-Academic Collaboration at the Summit, with technology successfully applied in Alibaba “City Brain” Initiatives.
September 2018: At Alibaba's Computing Conference 2018 held at Hanzhou, Professor Zhang Lei, the Chair Professor of Computer Vision and Image Analysis of Department of Computing, delivered a speech and shared his views on deep learning and a PID controller approach for optimization of deep networks.
November 2018: MoU Signing Ceremony between PolyU - Alibaba Cloud on Artificial Intelligence Collaboration
PolyU and Alibaba Cloud signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)to strengthen their cooperation in Artificial Intelligence research, particularly focusing on the areas of smart cities and smart healthcare. The two parties hope to translate research findings into real applications which can be initially adopted in Hong Kong as a pilot and then rolled out to the rest of the Greater Bay Area and other overseas cities.

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June 2016: 1st Alibaba Technology Forum on Big Data and Cloud Computing Technologies in Hong Kong @PolyU
August 2016: Collaborative Research Seminar held at Alibaba Hangzhou HQ for PolyU
September 2016: Alibaba has been a member of Departmental Advisory Committee (DAC) of the Department of Computing @PolyU since September 2016
April 2017: 1st Alibaba – PolyU collaborative project kicks off, which is also Alibaba 1st joint project with University outside mainland China
August - October 2017: ITDO coordinates Alibaba Innovation Program call for proposal, and technology match-making meeting with faculty members
October 2017: Alibaba VP Dr. Hua Xianshen public lecture at PolyU