Research Areas
Our team at the Department of Data and Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, specializes in Agentic Intelligence.
Our lab aims to solve long-term, challenging, and meaningful real-world research problems.
We are interested in advancing the following research areas:
- Development of Robotic Foundation Models.
- Agentic Systems built upon Large Language Models.
- Reinforcement Learning Theory and Algorithm Design.
- Data-driven Control for Nuclear Fusion.
Embodied AI expands the data and learning sources of multimodal LLMs through real-world interaction โ so we pursue both, under the banner of Agentic Intelligence.
Current Openings
(If interested, please contact Dr. Jiayu Chen directly. The Ph.D. application system accepts submissions year-round.)
- โโโ We are actively recruiting Postdocs, Ph.D., MPhil, and research assistants on LLM Agents.
For more information (including graduation requirements and internship policies), please refer to the respective categories in openings.
News
- 2026-06-18: One paper accepted at ECCV (Ziyi) ๐๐๐
- 2026-06-17: One paper accepted at IEEE IROS (Xiaoquan) ๐๐๐
- 2026-06-13: One paper accepted at IEEE RAL (Wenqi) ๐๐๐
- 2026-06-02: One paper accepted at UAI 2026 (Xudong) ๐๐๐
- 2026-05-01: One paper accepted at ICML 2026 (XU Le) ๐๐๐
- 2026-02-10: Mithun Vanniasinghe received HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
- 2026-01-26: Two papers accepted at ICLR 2026 (Aravind) ๐๐๐
- 2026-01-23: One paper on RL for Fusion accepted at L4DC (Rohit) ๐๐๐
- 2025-12-21: One paper accepted at IEEE TPAMI (Mingqi) ๐๐๐
- 2025-12-19: One paper accepted at AAMAS 2026 and will be presented orally (Wentse) ๐๐๐
- 2025-12-08: Check the PIโs research story at MIT_Technology_Review ๐๐๐
- 2025-11-10: I have joined INFIFORCE as the Chief Research Scientist to lead the research on RoboBrain.
- 2025-11-08: Two papers accepted at AAAI 2026, and one of them will be presented orally (Yiming) ๐๐๐
- 2025-10-21: One paper accepted for the AAAI Student Abstract and Poster Program 2026, featuring an oral presentation (XU Le) ๐๐๐
- 2025-10-09: Our RL-LLM framework Verlog is featured by JIQIZHIXIN ๐๐๐
- 2025-09-19: Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025 (Wentse, Sizhe) ๐๐๐
- 2025-07-22: Our survey on Behavior Foundation Models is featured by JIQIZHIXIN ๐๐๐
Fundings
| Funding Scheme | Research Topic | Duration | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early Career Scheme, HK UGC | Skill-Based Continual Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models Empowering Generalist Robotic Agents | 2027/01โ2029/12 | PI |
| ๅฝๅฎถ่ช็ถ็งๅญฆๅบ้้ๅนด็งๅญฆๅบ้้กน็ฎ๏ผC็ฑป๏ผ | ่ชไธป่ฟๅ็ๅ ท่บซๆบ่ฝไฝ๏ผ่ง่ง-่ฏญ่จ-ๅจไฝๆจกๅ็ๆ็ปญๅญฆไน ๆบ็็ ็ฉถ | 2026/09-2029/08 | PI |