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, Search Engine, Online Advertising, and Information Retrieval
- Large Language Model, AGI, AutoML, Reinforcement Learning, Trustworthy AI, and Multimodal ML
- AI + X: Healthcare, Urban Computing & Smart City, Science, and Education
We are looking for passionate new Postdocs, PhD students, and Master students to join the team (more info) !
Funding and Institutional Support
News
Dec 2025
Our paper ‘Function Calling in Large Language Models: Industrial Practices, Challenges, and Future Directions’ got accepted by ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR, IF 26.3). Congratulations to Maolin Wang, Yingyi Zhang, and Bowen Yu!
Nov 2025
Our paper ‘A Survey of Personalization: From RAG to Agent’ got accepted by TOIS. Congratulations to Pengyue Jia, Yingyi Zhang and Wenlin Zhang!
Nov 2025
Maolin Wang will join City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor. He is the #8 Professor from AML Lab. Congratulations!