Conducting High Impact Research


The Department is committed to conducting impactful multi-disciplinary research through recognising our strategic strengths and pooling talents. To further advance our research and spearhead innovative across disciplines, an array of initiatives which include strengthening international exposure and pursing international scholarly recognition, fostering a more open and supportive research culture, increasing engagement of multi-disciplinary research, recruiting and retaining high-caliber staff are well introduced.


The Department is proud to count among our faculty and they contribute fundamentally to our success.



Subject Rankings

#3

CS Citations in Hong Kong


#22

CS in Asia


#126-150

CS in World




Source: CSRankings

Artificial Intelligence (2018-2022)

#3

Hong Kong


#26

Asia


#51

World


Databases (2018-2022)

#3

Hong Kong


#8

Asia


#23

World


Funding (2018-2022)

The Department has secured significant amount of research funds in the past 5 years. The funding solidifies our research strengths and recognises our efforts in creating impactful innovative research.



Funding Schemes
No. of Funded Project(s)
Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 3
General Research Fund (GRF) 20
Early Career Scheme (ECS) 6
Research Impact Fund (RIF) 3
RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) 1
Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) 2
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 9
National Natural Science Foundation of China/RGC Joint Research Scheme 2
Research Matching Grant Scheme (RMGS) 6
Others 24
Total   76

Editorships

BMC Methods

Dr. ZHANG, Eric Lu
Editorial Board Member

Health Data Science

Dr. LIU, Yang
Editorial Board Member

Pattern Recognition

Prof. CHEUNG, Yiu MingProf. YUEN, Pong Chi
Editorial Board MemberEditorial Board Member

Science in One Health

Prof. LIU, Jiming
Editorial Board Member


Information as at 8 February 2024


Supportive Research Facilities

The Department strongly believes that the significance of up-to-date research facilities as a pre-requisite for top research and teaching.  High-performance computing facilities, like FAT CPU, FAT GPU servers and GPU clusters are well equipped to enhance our research capabilities and meet ever-expanding research need on artificial intelligence and big data.




List of high-performance computing facilities:


12 FAT CPU servers with at least 1TB RAM

3 FAT GPU servers, each with 4 Nvidia V100 GPUs and 1TB RAM

2 FAT GPU servers, each with 4 Nvidia Ampere A100 GPUs and 1TB RAM

Three GPU clusters:
Cluster 1: 4 GPU nodes, each with two Nvidia Ampere A100
1 GPU node, each with eight Nvidia Ampere A100
3 GPU nodes, each with four Nvidia Tesla V100
8 GPU nodes, each with two Nvidia Tesla K80
4 GPU nodes, each with two Nvidia Tesla P40
Cluster 2: 2 GPU nodes, each with two Nvidia Ampere A100
5 GPU nodes, each with four Nvidia Tesla V100
Cluster 3: 2 GPU nodes, each with eight Nvidia Ampere A100
6 GPU nodes, each with four Nvidia Tesla V100

One BigDATA cluster: 5 data nodes, each with dual 6-core Intel Xeon CPUs

HUAWEI GPU: 1 server with Intel Xeon Gold CPUs and eight Neural Network Processing Units