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We are pleased to announce that nine staff members from PolyU’s Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) have been included in the latest list of the World’s Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists 2025, compiled by Stanford University. This prestigious list is based on composite indicators of publication impact, including total citations, citations to single-authored publications, and the H-index. It is divided into two categories: car
6 Oct 2025

The Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) participated in PolyU Information Day 2025 on 27 September 2025, the annual university-wide event targeted at prospective undergraduate students. DSAI showcased the Bachelor of Science (Honours) Scheme in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (JUPAS Code: JS3223), which offers two majors: BSc (Hons) in Data Science and Analytics and BSc (Hons) in Financial Technology and Artific
30 Sep 2025
We are delighted to announce that DONG Jiangwen, PhD student at the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), has been awarded the Best Paper Merit at the 3rd PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC 2025), held from 2–4 July 2025. The paper, titled “A Subject-Based Directed Acyclic Graph for Multi-Agent Heterogeneous Reasoning,” was co-authored by Jiangwen with his supervisor Prof. LIN Wanyu, Assistant Professor of DSAI&COMP
29 Sep 2025

The Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) recently hosted a series of orientation sessions to welcome new students to its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. These sessions provided valuable information, guidance, and a warm introduction to the DSAI community. The orientation for BSc (Hons) Scheme in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence students took place on 29 August 2025. The session began with a welcoming s
5 Sep 2025

You are cordially invited to attend the DSAI seminar by Prof. Mayank Vatsa on “Ctrl+Z for GenAI: Undoing What Models Learn and Teaching them What “Not” Means” with details as follows: Date: 12 Sep 2025 (Fri) Time: 14:30 - 15:30 Venue: Z211, PolyU If you are interested, please register at: https://polyu.hk/FXkMe (Registration Deadline: 8 Sep 2025) For enquiry, please contact us at dsai.enquiry@polyu.edu.hk. We look forward to seeing you at t
4 Sep 2025

You are cordially invited to attend the DSAI seminar by Prof. Huajin Tang on “Towards training large-scale high-performance spiking neural networks (SNNs): challenges and advances” with details as follows: Date: 1 Sep 2025 (Mon) Time: 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: FJ302, PolyU If you are interested, please register at: https://polyu.hk/qZyZH (Registration Deadline: 31 Aug 2025) For enquiry, please contact us at dsai.enquiry@polyu.edu.hk. We look forwa
27 Aug 2025

Professor TAN Kay Chen, Head of the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence, has been awarded the prestigious 2026 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award — one of the highest global honors in the field of evolutionary computation. This accolade recognizes Prof. TAN’s groundbreaking and long-standing contributions to advancing evolutionar
27 Aug 2025

We are pleased to announce that Dr FONG Chi Kit Ken has joined the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) as a Senior Teaching Fellow on 18 August 2025. Dr FONG previously served as an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Lingnan University and as an Assistant Professor at Chu Hai College of Higher Education. He received the Merit Award (Team) for Teaching at Lingnan University in 2023/24. He holds a BSc and Ph.D. in Compute
19 Aug 2025

A team from the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) (comprising Ph.D. student Mr HUANG Beichen, Prof. CHENG Ran, and Prof. TAN Kay Chen) has achieved a remarkable milestone by winning first place globally in the Multi-Agent Systems track of the prestigious AgentX International Competition. The event, hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, and supported by leading technology companies such as Google, Amazon,
7 Aug 2025

We are delighted to welcome Dr LIAO Weihang, who has joined the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) as a Teaching Fellow on 1 August 2025. Dr LIAO was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Technology and Informatics at PolyU. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Engineering from Wuhan University, China, as well as a second Master’s from the National Institute of Informatics, Japan, and a Do
1 Aug 2025

The Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) participated in PolyU Information Day 2025 on 27 September 2025, the annual university-wide event targeted at prospective undergraduate students. DSAI showcased the Bachelor of Science (Honours) Scheme in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (JUPAS Code: JS3223), which offers two majors: BSc (Hons) in Data Science and Analytics and BSc (Hons) in Financial Technology and Artific
30 Sep 2025
We are delighted to announce that DONG Jiangwen, PhD student at the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), has been awarded the Best Paper Merit at the 3rd PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC 2025), held from 2–4 July 2025. The paper, titled “A Subject-Based Directed Acyclic Graph for Multi-Agent Heterogeneous Reasoning,” was co-authored by Jiangwen with his supervisor Prof. LIN Wanyu, Assistant Professor of DSAI&COMP
29 Sep 2025

The Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) recently hosted a series of orientation sessions to welcome new students to its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. These sessions provided valuable information, guidance, and a warm introduction to the DSAI community. The orientation for BSc (Hons) Scheme in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence students took place on 29 August 2025. The session began with a welcoming s
5 Sep 2025

You are cordially invited to attend the DSAI seminar by Prof. Mayank Vatsa on “Ctrl+Z for GenAI: Undoing What Models Learn and Teaching them What “Not” Means” with details as follows: Date: 12 Sep 2025 (Fri) Time: 14:30 - 15:30 Venue: Z211, PolyU If you are interested, please register at: https://polyu.hk/FXkMe (Registration Deadline: 8 Sep 2025) For enquiry, please contact us at dsai.enquiry@polyu.edu.hk. We look forward to seeing you at t
4 Sep 2025

You are cordially invited to attend the DSAI seminar by Prof. Huajin Tang on “Towards training large-scale high-performance spiking neural networks (SNNs): challenges and advances” with details as follows: Date: 1 Sep 2025 (Mon) Time: 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: FJ302, PolyU If you are interested, please register at: https://polyu.hk/qZyZH (Registration Deadline: 31 Aug 2025) For enquiry, please contact us at dsai.enquiry@polyu.edu.hk. We look forwa
27 Aug 2025

Professor TAN Kay Chen, Head of the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence, has been awarded the prestigious 2026 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award — one of the highest global honors in the field of evolutionary computation. This accolade recognizes Prof. TAN’s groundbreaking and long-standing contributions to advancing evolutionar
27 Aug 2025

We are pleased to announce that Dr FONG Chi Kit Ken has joined the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) as a Senior Teaching Fellow on 18 August 2025. Dr FONG previously served as an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Lingnan University and as an Assistant Professor at Chu Hai College of Higher Education. He received the Merit Award (Team) for Teaching at Lingnan University in 2023/24. He holds a BSc and Ph.D. in Compute
19 Aug 2025

A team from the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) (comprising Ph.D. student Mr HUANG Beichen, Prof. CHENG Ran, and Prof. TAN Kay Chen) has achieved a remarkable milestone by winning first place globally in the Multi-Agent Systems track of the prestigious AgentX International Competition. The event, hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, and supported by leading technology companies such as Google, Amazon,
7 Aug 2025

We are delighted to welcome Dr LIAO Weihang, who has joined the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) as a Teaching Fellow on 1 August 2025. Dr LIAO was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Technology and Informatics at PolyU. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Engineering from Wuhan University, China, as well as a second Master’s from the National Institute of Informatics, Japan, and a Do
1 Aug 2025

We are pleased to announce that nine staff members from PolyU’s Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) have been included in the latest list of the World’s Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists 2025, compiled by Stanford University. This prestigious list is based on composite indicators of publication impact, including total citations, citations to single-authored publications, and the H-index. It is divided into two categories: car
6 Oct 2025
