Academic Staff

Prof. Wenqi Fan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing (COMP) and the Department of Management and Marketing (MM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). His current research interests include Artificial Intelligence (AI), data mining and machine learning, especially Recommender Systems (RecSys), Management Information Systems (MIS), Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI, Trustworthy AI, Graph Machine Learning, Multimodal Learning, and AI/ML/DM for Business/Education/Science/Healthcare, etc. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2020. From 2018 to 2021, he was a research scholar at Michigan State University (MSU), under the supervision of Prof. Jiliang Tang. He has been listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (2023, 2024, 2025) and recognized as the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention (2022–now). His research has been supported by multiple government funding agencies and industry partners, including the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), Kuaishou, and Tencent, among others.