IDS Inaugural Interdisciplinary Workshop in 2025
IDS joining force with the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science (SAAS) and the Department of Mathematics to organize this 2-day event on May 28-29, 2025 which promoted rigorous discourse on advancing the foundational studies of artificial intelligence.
Research News
Latest Works by HKU-100 IDS Scholars in collaboration with Interdisciplinary Researchers
Your Personal AI Assistant – “Auto-Deep-Research”
Prof Chao Huang & His HKU IDS Student Jiabin Tang:
“Generation chain-of-thought (GoT)” – For reasoning for visual generation and editing
Check out our new work introducing generation chain-of-thought (GoT) reasoning for visual generation and editing. Code and data released!
— Xihui Liu (@XihuiLiu) March 18, 2025
Arxiv: https://t.co/ldkciFLRVZ
Code and data: https://t.co/4Ruaxm7pK0
Huggingface: https://t.co/jeHUyaGQan
“Computer Agent Arena” – For evaluating LLM and VLM-based agents performing real-world computer-use tasks
🎮 Computer Use Agent Arena is LIVE! 🚀
— Bowen Wang (@BowenWangNLP) April 8, 2025
🔥 Easiest way to test computer-use agents in the wild without any setup
🌟 Compare top VLMs: OpenAI Operator, Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Qwen 2.5 vl and more
🕹️ Test agents on 100+ real apps & webs with one-click config
🔒 Safe & free… pic.twitter.com/Btycd6jxJZ
IDS new research initiative - IDEAS
Professor Herman Cappelen shares the vision of the IDEAS, an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to exploring the ethical, legal , social, and governance aspects of AI
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New Industrial Fellowship Programme at HKU IDS
Inaugural Cohort of the HKU Advanced Technology Fellowship Programme (ATFP) January 2025
1st Hong Kong AI and Frontier Technology Forum 2025 Held on January 17, 2025 to Remark Efforts in bridging the academia and the industrial sectors
Research Postgraduate Programme at HKU IDS
HKU IDS rolls out new interdisciplinary courses for Research Postgraduate programme in 2025-26
Discover why even non-HKU students are enrolling in HKU IDS Rpg courses!
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Award News
Organized by the HKU Graduate School, the HKU Research Postgraduate Symposium took place on March 11, 2025 to exhibit the impressive learning progress of RPg students along their research journey. Awardees of the HKU Presidential PhD Scholar (HKU-PS) Programme from the Institute continue to showcase their outstanding achievements, by rendering poster presentations on their recent works.A huge round of applause to our student, Mr. Xubin REN, who received a poster presentation award among all top performers! Great job to all other HKU-PS recipients at HKU IDS.
Two HKU IDS Faculty Members Are Honoured the "100 Young Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence (AI100青年先鋒)" in Year 2025!
HKU's Rising Star in Data Science – Mr. Xubin REN, 2nd Year PhD Candidate at HKU IDS, Is Honoured a Prestigious “Qingyuan Scholar「清源學者」” by GAITC 2025!
Conference Takeaways
IDS Students Widening Research Horizons by Attending International Conferences –
CPAL 2025 Takeaways – An Eye-opening Experience at Stanford University
ICLR 2025 Takeaways – From a Regional to a Global Perspective on Embodied AI for HKU IDS Students
Upcoming Events
August 28-29, 2025
HKU IDS Interdisciplinary Workshop on Complex Networks
Q1, 2026
The Hong Kong Global AI Governance Conference (HKGAGC)
