Meet the team

Pan HUI

Chair Professor (International Fellow of RAEng, MAE, and IEEE Fellow)
Pan HUI
Ubiquitous Computing
Ao YU

Postdoctoral Researcher | Fall 2023
Ao YU
AI & Education
Qinyong GAO

Admin Coordinator | Spring 2023
Qinyong GAO
Liang YANG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2020
Liang YANG
Interoperability, Ethic and Governance of Mataverse&AI
Anqi WANG

Ph.D. Student | Spring 2021
Anqi WANG
Human-AI Collaboration, Creativity Support, AI-assisted Design
Yiming ZHU

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2021
Yiming ZHU
Social computing; Data mining; Natural language processing
Clarence CHEUNG

Ph.D. Student | Spring 2022
Clarence CHEUNG
VR, Digital Human, Collaboration
Hua Xuan QIN(Amy)

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2022
Hua Xuan QIN(Amy)
Generative AI, Creative Writing, Metaverse
Luyao SHEN

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2022
Luyao SHEN
VR，AI，User Experience Design
Simin YANG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2022
Simin YANG
HCI, Haptic Interaction, Emotional Analytics
Xuetong WANG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2022
Xuetong WANG
XR, Human Computer Interaction
Yawei ZHAO

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2022
Yawei ZHAO
Spatial Narratives, Ubiquitous Computing, HCI
Bonan LIU

Ph.D. Student | Spring 2023
Bonan LIU
Robotics
Zhiwan CHEUNG

Ph.D. Student | Spring 2023
Zhiwan CHEUNG
Art, AI, Technology
Fandi PENG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2023
Fandi PENG
HCI, Robotics, Education
Yuhong HE

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2023
Yuhong HE
CV,Metaverse,LM
Yuk Hang TSUI

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2023
Yuk Hang TSUI
VR, Network, Representation Learning
Zeyu YANG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2023
Zeyu YANG
HCI, XR, Social Computing
Zhizhuo YIN

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2023
Zhizhuo YIN
3D Motion Generation, Representation Learning, Large Language Model
Ching Christie PANG

Ph.D. Student | Spring 2024
Ching Christie PANG
Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Human , Future in Education
Iris DELIKOURA

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2024
Iris DELIKOURA
Junkun LONG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2024
Junkun LONG
HCI / MR / VR / AR
Lan LUO

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2024
Lan LUO
LLM；EduTech；DigitalHuman
Ze WU

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2024
Ze WU
Network system, Artificial intelligence, VR/AR
Zhuoran ZHAO

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2024
Zhuoran ZHAO
Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence
Dongyijie Primo Pan

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Dongyijie Primo Pan
HCI, XR/VR, Digital Health, EduTech, Human-AI Interaction
Kairong FANG

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Kairong FANG
VR，MR
Liuziyu ZHAO

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Liuziyu ZHAO
HCI, RAG
Shuyue LI

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Shuyue LI
HCI in VR/AR; Art & Design; AI & Design
Weipeng CHEN

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Weipeng CHEN
Social Computing, HCI
Wen Jye CHAI

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Wen Jye CHAI
Computer Vision
Wenbo XU

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Wenbo XU
Social Media & Information Behavior; Emergency Intelligence
Wenqing GU

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Wenqing GU
Computational Social Science, HCI
Xiaokang LEI

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Xiaokang LEI
HCI
Yi ZOU

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Yi ZOU
Context-aware AR/MR
Zihao FU

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2024
Zihao FU
Metaverse Education
Guanxuan JIANG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2025
Guanxuan JIANG
Human-centered Computing, Multimodal Sensing, and Behavior Modeling
Hao LI

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2025
Hao LI
AI Art, AR Art, Audiovisual Performance
Jassy LIANG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2025
Jassy LIANG
HCI
Jia SUN

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2025
Jia SUN
Media arts
Ming YIN

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2025
Ming YIN
Human-AI Interaction
Pu ZHANG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2025
Pu ZHANG
Social Computing, Human-centered Computing
Yuqi LIANG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2025
Yuqi LIANG
Cognitive Science
Yuyang JIANG

Ph.D. Student | Fall 2025
Yuyang JIANG
Art Therapy and Design; Affective Computing; Cognitive Science
Xiangze MENG

MPhil / Red Bird MPhil Student | Fall 2025
Xiangze MENG
AI / HCI / Video Generation and Understanding
Ruoshan (Bianca) Yang

Ph.D. Student | Spring 2026
Ruoshan (Bianca) Yang
XR + Multimodal AI + Cultural Heritage
Yixuan XIE

Ph.D. Student | Spring 2026
Yixuan XIE
Computational Social Science

Graduated / Alumni

HKUST Graduated PhD Students

Lin CHEN – HKUST(GZ) PhD, Graduated 2025

Zheng Wei – HKUST PhD, Graduated 2025
Ehsan Ul Haq - Thesis Defence on 19 January 2023, Now Postdoc at HKUST(GZ)
Reza Haddi Mogavi - Thesis Defence on 16 January 2023, Now Postdoc at University of Waterloo
James Kit Yung Lam - Thesis Defence on 12 January 2023, Now working at an IT Company in Switzerland
Ahmad ALHILAL - Thesis Defence on 26 July 2022, Postdoc at HKUST
Mingyang Zhang - Thesis Defence on 27 May 2022, Now researcher at ANTS Finance
Tong Li - Thesis Defence on 22 July 2021, Now Postdoc at Tsinghua University
Gloria Hyunjung Kwak - Thesis Defence on 14 July 2021, Now Postdoc at MIT/Harvard
Carlos Bermejo - Thesis Defence on 16 June 2021, Then Postdoc at HKUST and now research engineer at Morgan Stanley
Wenxiao Zhang - Thesis Defence on 24 July 2019, Now Senior Researcher at Huawei Technologies
Lik-Hang Lee - Thesis Defence on 10 July 2019, then Postdoc at University of Oulu and now Assistant Professor at KAIST since January 2021
Jiayu Shu - Thesis Defence on 9 July 2019, Now Researcher at ASTRI
Dimitris Chatzopoulos - Thesis Defence on 17 July 2018, then Research Assistant Professor at HKUST, and now Assistant Professor at University College Dublin
Ting Wu - Thesis Defence on 17 November 2016, Now Data Scientist at Hong Kong Jockey Club

HKUST Graduated MPhil Students

Junze MA – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025

Yibo WANG – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025

Yining HUANG – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025

Yunlei MEN – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025

Yuanyuan MAO – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025

Yuxuan BAI – HKUST(GZ) MPhil, Graduated 2025

Shi-Ting NI - HKUST(GZ) Mphil, Graduated 2025
Sergei Sorokin - HKUST MPhil student Fall 2017, Russia Federated Government Scholarship
Sijia Li - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022, B Arch from Inha University
Wen Yang - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022, B Arts in Communication from South China University of Technology
Yulu Hu - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022, B.Eng from South China University of Technology
Zihao Zhu - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022, B.Eng from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Zheng Wei - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B Film Production from Beijing Film Academy , MBA from Beijing Normal University
Xuling Zhang - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Sc from South China University of Technology
Ziru Zhang - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Sc from Tianjin University
Wei Geng - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Eng from Harbin Engineering University , M.Eng from Fudan University
Guangzhi Zhu - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Eng from Southern University of Science and Technology
Handi Yin - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Eng from Tsinghua University
Juhyung Son - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Sc from University of Technology Sydney
Ruichen Li - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Sc from Fudan University
Yuchao Zhuo - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Eng from Ningbo University Of Technology
Shan Jin - HKUST(GZ) MPhil student Fall 2022,B.Eng from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chris Chun Ho Park - HKUST MPhil student Fall 2021,B.Sc from HKUST , Thesis Defence in May2023
Anish Krishna Vallapuram - HKUST MPhil student Fall 2020,B.Sc from HKUST , Thesis Defence in July2022
Arthur Yui-Pan Yau - HKUST MPhil student Fall 2019,B.Sc from CUHK , Thesis Defence in July2021
Man Hing Wong - HKUST MPhil student Fall 2019,B.Sc from HKUST , Thesis Defence in February2021
Nicholas Sukiennik - HKUST TLE MPhil student Fall2017 , Thesis Defence in December2020
Youngdae Kwon - HKUST MPhil student Fall2017 , Thesis Defence in December2020
Ali Ugur Guler - HKUST MPhil , Thesis Defence in December2018
Kayin Ho - HKUST MPhil , Thesis Defence in August2017
Sikun Lin - HKUST MPhil, Thesis Defence in July 2017, HKTIIT Excellent Postgraduate Scholarship
Rui Zheng - HKUST MPhil student (2013), Thesis Defence in October 2016
Ji Yang - HKUST MPhil, Thesis Defence in July 2016
Muhammad Haris Mughees - HKUST MPhil, Thesis Defence in June 2016; his work was reported by MIT Technology Review and Communications of ACM; now PhD student at UIUC
Ye Huang - HKUST MPhil, Thesis Defence in October 2014
Shengkai Zhang - HKUST MPhil (Prof. Bo Li as co-supervisor), Thesis Defence in October 2014

Non-HKUST Graduated PhD Students

Abhishek Kumar - University of Helsinki PhD student, Thesis Defence on 20 December 2022, Now Postdoc at Oulu University
Pengyuan Zhou - University of Helsinki PhD student, 2nd Supervisor (Main supervisor: Prof. Jussi Kangasharju), May 2020, Then Postdoc at University of Helsinki, and now Associate Professor at University Science and Technology of China
Sanja Scepanovic - Aalto University PhD student (Main thesis advisor: Pan Hui, Supervising professor: Prof. Aristides Gionis), February 2018, Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge UK
Andrius Aucinas - University of Cambridge UK, March 2016, Co-supervision with main supervisor at University of Cambridge: Prof. Jon Crowcroft, Now co-founder and Head of Engineering at HAT
Shang Shang - Princeton University USA, May 2014, Co-supervision with main supervisors at Princeton University: Prof. Sanjeev Kulkarni, Now researcher at Amazon USA
Ranjan Pal - University of Southern California USA, May 2014, Co-supervision with main supervisors at USC: Prof. Leana Golubchik and Prof. Konstantinos Psounis, Now tenure-track research assistant professor at University of Michigan
Gautam Thakur - University of Florida USA, November 2012, Co-supervision with main supervisor at University of Florida: Prof. Ahmed Helmy, Now researcher at Oak Ridge National Lab USA
Sufian Hameed - University of Goettingen Germany, September 2012, Co-supervision with main advisor at University of Goettingen: Prof. Xiaoming Fu, Now Assistant Professor at National University of Computer & Emerging Science Pakistan
Yong Li - Tsinghua University China, May 2012, Co-supervision with main advisor at Tsinghua University: Prof. Depeng Jin, Now Associate Professor at Tsinghua University