Dr. LIU Ye
Department of Computing
Chief Supervisor : Prof. CHEN Changwen
We are delighted to announce that Dr. LIU Ye, PhD graduate from FCMS, has been awarded the ‘PolyU PhD Thesis Award 2026 – Outstanding (STEM Category)’. Under the supervision of Prof. CHEN Changwen, Dr. Liu completed his thesis “Towards Interactive Multi-modal Content Understanding.” - For contribution to multi-modal understanding and agentic AI
Dr. Liu’s thesis advances the transition from conversational AI to agentic AI: intelligent systems that can understand their surroundings, make informed decisions and take action. It develops a framework connecting perception, reasoning and interaction, enabling AI to actively seek information and use what it learns to guide its next step. This brings society closer to AI assistants that can handle unfamiliar situations and help people accomplish complex tasks. The research provides foundations for more capable and efficient AI, with technologies already adopted in products from Tencent, vivo and Huawei. Its openly shared models, software and datasets also support innovation across the research community and industry. Looking ahead, these advances could enable assistants that operate digital tools and robots that interact with the physical world. By connecting understanding with purposeful action, this work contributes to a future in which AI plays a more useful role in how people work, learn and live. The research has had a substantial impact on both academia and industry and was recognized as one of PolyU’s Top 10 Research & Innovation Stories of the Year.
The Faculty is immensely proud of Dr. Liu’s outstanding achievement and wishes him every success in the next chapter of his academic and professional journey.
Department of Computing
Chief Supervisor : Prof. CHEN Changwen
We are delighted to announce that Dr. LIU Ye, PhD graduate from FCMS, has been awarded the ‘PolyU PhD Thesis Award 2026 – Outstanding (STEM Category)’. Under the supervision of Prof. CHEN Changwen, Dr. Liu completed his thesis “Towards Interactive Multi-modal Content Understanding.” - For contribution to multi-modal understanding and agentic AI
Dr. Liu’s thesis advances the transition from conversational AI to agentic AI: intelligent systems that can understand their surroundings, make informed decisions and take action. It develops a framework connecting perception, reasoning and interaction, enabling AI to actively seek information and use what it learns to guide its next step. This brings society closer to AI assistants that can handle unfamiliar situations and help people accomplish complex tasks. The research provides foundations for more capable and efficient AI, with technologies already adopted in products from Tencent, vivo and Huawei. Its openly shared models, software and datasets also support innovation across the research community and industry. Looking ahead, these advances could enable assistants that operate digital tools and robots that interact with the physical world. By connecting understanding with purposeful action, this work contributes to a future in which AI plays a more useful role in how people work, learn and live. The research has had a substantial impact on both academia and industry and was recognized as one of PolyU’s Top 10 Research & Innovation Stories of the Year.
The Faculty is immensely proud of Dr. Liu’s outstanding achievement and wishes him every success in the next chapter of his academic and professional journey.
