Welcome to the AML Lab
Applied Machine Learning Lab (AML Lab) is a dynamic research group at the Department of Data Science in City University of Hong Kong. Our aim is to explore new methods and applications of Machine Learning and Data Mining, including
We are looking for passionate new Postdocs, PhD students, and Master students to join the team (more info) !
Funding and Institutional Support

Oct 2025
Our workshop ‘Workshop on the Next-Generation Recommender Systems and LLMs’ got accepted by WSDM 2026. Congratulations to Fei Sun, Haoxuan Li, Jian Wu, Julian McAuley, Ji Liu, Junwei Pan, Jiakai Tang, Lina Yao, Lexing Xie, Xiangyu Zhao, and Yeqiu Yang!
Oct 2025
Our PhD student Wenlin Zhang received the NeurIPS 2025 Student Travel Award. Congratulations to Wenlin Zhang!
Sep 2025
Our paper ‘Process vs. Outcome Reward: Which is Better for Agentic RAG Reinforcement Learning’ got accepted by NeurIPS’25. Congratulations to Wenlin Zhang, Pengyue Jia, Xiaopeng Li, Yingyi Zhang and Derong Xu!