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

  • Personalization, Recommender System, Online Advertising, Search Engine, and Information Retrieval
  • Urban Computing, Smart City, GeoAI, Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis, and Location-Based Social Networks
  • Large Language Model, Reinforcement Learning, AutoML, AGI, Graph Learning, Trustworthy AI, and Multimodal ML
  • AI + X: Education, Healthcare, Carbon Neutral, Social Computing, E-commerce, Finance, and Ecosystem

We are looking for passionate new Postdocs, PhD students, and Master students to join the team (more info) !

Funding and Institutional Support

News

July 2025

Our paper ‘PolyFootNet: Extracting Polygonal Building Footprints in Off-Nadir Remote Sensing Images’ got accepted by TGRS. Congratulations to Kai Li and Maolin Wang!

July 2025

Our tutorial ‘Learning from Spatio-Temporal Data in the LLM Era: Foundations, Models, and Emerging Trends’ got accepted by SSTD’ 25. Congratulations to Zijian Zhang and Xiao Han!

July 2025

Prof. Zhao received the Recognition of Outstanding Teaching Performance for Semester B, 2024/25. Congratulations!

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