©BDI Jan 2021 Big Data Institute Educational Technology Programs Hong Kong and nation’s Transformation Big Data Research Center Funding Support Industry Applications Scientific Research Talent Training Industrialize scientific Mission Recruit achievements and talents in create long-term and academia impact to the world Vision Navigate Aspire innovation research and breakthrough development Benefit the Greater Bay Area (HK / Macau / Guangdong), Greater China Region and the world 50+ faculty interdisciplinary Schools and Departments for from 120+ students 16 collaborative R&D projects and 4 joint labs Over HK$ 80 million & US$ 1 million industrial sponsorship and donation with one of the largest government-funded ITF Smart City Project BDI WeChat Overseas Joint Lab in Asia ACHIEVEMENT st 1 Line/Naver Overseas Joint Lab in the World HIGHLIGHTS Trained 400+ BDT Master Students Partnership with leading companies and more… BDI Team At present, there are more than 50 faculty members and over 120 students involved BDI’s 16 research projects from • School of Engineering • School of Science • School of Business & Management • Department of Computer Science and Engineering • Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics • Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering • Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management • Department of Mathematics • Division of Life Science • Division of Social Science Prof Lei Chen Director of BDI Prof Nancy Ip Vice-President for Prof Tony F Chan Research and Former HKUST President Development Prof Tim Cheng Prof Yang Wang Dr Tieniu Tan Dean of Engineering Associate Director of BDI & Vice-President for Vice Minister of the Liaison Prof Qiang Yang Institutional Advancement Office of the Central People’s Founding Director of BDI Government in HKSAR Ke Yi 易珂 Albert Chung 鍾志成 Associate Dean of Engineering Professor, Department of (UG Studies) & Professor, Computer Science and Department of Computer Science Engineering, HKUST and Engineering, and Department Director Associate Director Founding Director of Chemical and Biological Engineering, HKUST Lei Chen 陳雷 Yang Wang 汪揚 Qiang Yang 楊強 Chair Professor, Vice-President for Chair Professor, Department of Computer Institutional Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Advancement, HKUST Science and Engineering, HKUST HKUST Shaojie Shen 沈劭劼 I-ming Hsing 邢怡銘 Associate Professor, Head & Professor of Department of Department of Chemical Electronic and Computer and Biological Engineering, HKUST Engineering, HKUST BDI Our Team Brian Mak 麥鑑榮 Daniel P. Palomar 鋒西龍 Jianfeng Cai 蔡劍鋒 Cameron Campbell 康文林 Professor, Department of Associate Professor, Bertram Shi 施毅明 Department of Computer Head & Professor, Department of Professor, Department of Professor, Division of Social Electronic and Computer Mathematics, HKUST Science, HKUST Engineering, and Department of Science and Electronic and Computer Industrial Engineering and Engineering, HKUST Engineering, HKUST Decision Analytics, HKUST Inchi Hu 胡膺期 Hong Xue 薛紅 Hai Yang 楊海 James She 許丕文 Chair Professor, Huamin Qu 屈華民 Professor, Department of Computer Adjunct Professor, Chair Professor, Adjunct Assistant Department of Information Science and Engineering, and Division of Life Science, Department of Civil and Professor, Department of Systems, Business Department of Electronic and Computer HKUST Environmental Electronic and Computer Statistics and Operations Engineering & Director, Interdisciplinary Engineering, HKUST Engineering, HKUST Management, HKUST Programs Office, HKUST 楊瓞仁 宗福季 吳德愷 Dit-Yan Yeung Fugee Tsung Chi Keung Tang 鄧智強 Dimitris Papadias 白德善 Dekai Wu Head & Chair Professor, Chair Professor, Department Professor, Department of Professor, Department of Professor, Department of Department of Computer of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science and Computer Science and Computer Science and Science and Engineering, Decision Analytics, HKUST Engineering, HKUST Engineering, HKUST Engineering, HKUST HKUST Pascale Fung 馮雁 Mingjie Zhang 張明傑 Jiguang Wang 王吉光 Qiong Luo 羅瓊 Professor, Department of Electronic Adjunct Professor, Assistant Professor, Division Associate Professor, and Computer Engineering & Division of Life Science, Department of Computer Director, Center for Artificial of Life Science, and Intelligence Research, HKUST HKUST Department of Chemical and Science and Biological Engineering, Engineering, HKUST HKUST Xiaojuan Ma 麻曉娟 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST Yangqiu Song 宋陽秋 Wei Wang 王威 Weichuan Yu 余維川 Assistant Professor, Department Assistant Professor, Department Professor, Department of of Computer Science and of Computer Science and Electronic and Computer Engineering, and Department of Engineering, HKUST Engineering, HKUST Mathematics, HKUST James Kwok 郭天佑 Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST Kai Chen 陳凱 Matthew McKay Richard So 蘇孝宇 Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Electronic Nevin Zhang 張連文 Associate Dean of Engineering (Research & and Computer Engineering and, Professor, Department of Graduate Studies) & Professor, Department Department of Computer of Industrial Engineering and Decision Science and Department of Chemical and Computer Science and Analytics, and Department of Chemical and Engineering, HKUST Biological Engineering, HKUST Engineering, HKUST Biological Engineering, HKUST Jiheng Zhang 張季恆 Raymond Wong 黃智榮 Xiaoping Wang 王筱平 Professor, Department of Professor, Department of Head & Chair Professor, Industrial Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Decision Analytics, and Engineering, HKUST Mathematics, HKUST Department of Mathematics, HKUST Xuhui Huang 黃旭輝 Kohei Kawaguchi 川口康平 Professor, Department of Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Department of Economics, Engineering and Department of HKUST Chemistry, HKUST Jishan Hu 胡繼善 Can Yang 楊燦 Kani Chen 陳卡你 Professor, Department of Professor, Department of Associate Professor, Mathematics, HKUST Department of Mathematics, HKUST Mathematics, HKUST Angela Wu 吳若昊 Yu Hu 胡禹 Assistant Professor, Department Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological of Mathematics, and Division Engineering, and Division of of Life Science, HKUST Yuan Yao 姚遠 Life Science, HKUST Haibin Su 蘇海斌 Associate Professor, Department of Bing-yi Jing 荊炳義 Associate Professor, Mathematics, and Department of Professor, Department of Department of Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Mathematics, HKUST HKUST Engineering, HKUST BDI Industrial Partners 2015 RMB￥10 million Tencent and Donation 2016 US$ 1 million Mr. Raymond Chu 2015 HK$ 10 million ITF (Innovation and 2018 Technology Fund) Smart Transportation HK$ 2.46 million project partnered with 2020 RGC-RIF Project 2016 HK$ 20 million ITF (Innovation and HK$ 5.6 million Technology Fund) Smart City project partnered with 2018 HK$ 1 million and more… 2018 HK$ 5 million Space Tactics Asset Ying Ding Education Management 2019 2018 HK$ 2 million Technology Co., Ltd Donation OUR LABS WHAT Lab BDBI-Machine Learning Lab HKUST-Ying Ding Education AI Lab Smart City Lab HKUST- NAVER/LINE AI Lab BIG DATA INSTITUTE WeChat-HKUST Joint Lab on Artificial Intelligence WHAT Lab WeChat and HKUST will jointly conduct Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology related research and explore the far-reaching frontiers of AI. This collaboration on AI research is expected to be long-term and world-leading. Research areas of WHAT LAB include intelligent robotic systems, natural language 2015-11-26 WHAT Lab was established in HKUST processing, data mining, speech recognition and Tencent entered into a 5-year research understanding. partnership with BDI since late 2015, amounts to RMB10 million in total. Aims at social networking big data mining and machine learning, natural language processing and robotics research. Natural language processing Data Mining & Visualization Video Analysis Large –Scale Machine Learning Machine Reading aims to develop Machine Learning algorithms that could read and comprehend natural language documents as humans do. Robotic Application With Machine Reading, natural language information is converted to the form that could be processed by computers, and could be further utilized in applications such as summarization, question answering and dialogue system. 据印度报业托拉斯报导，当地时间 WHAT Lab 2日，在巴基斯坦接壤印度的巴方 边境口岸瓦格赫发生了一起自杀式 Machine Reading: Breakthrough 炸弹袭击。根据最新消息，这起袭 击事件造成了至少55人死亡，其中 in Natural Chinese Processing 包括了孩子和安全人员，另有近 It aims to develop Machine Learning 200人受伤。巴基斯坦官员表示， algorithms that could read and 此次的事件是一起自杀式袭击。 comprehend natural language documents as humans do, the technique NEWS can be further utilized in applications such as summarization, question answering and dialogue system. Human Natural language processing 印巴边境发生自杀式袭击致55 Data Mining & Visualization 人死亡 Video Analysis Large –Scale Machine Learning Machine Robotic Application 巴基斯坦发生自杀式炸弹袭击 事件造成至少55人死亡 Dialog Robot Through the dialogue system, computer information can be translated into natural language description, and human language can also be translated into computer information, so as to achieve human-computer interaction. Reinforcement and transfer learning, can be used to solve the problem of dialogue system. Reinforcement learning can solve the problem of delayed feedback in multiple rounds of dialogue, while transfer learning can help target areas by using data from similar fields, which can solve the problems of traditional intensive learning data.