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

Mar 2026

Our paper ‘Embedding in Recommender Systems: A Survey’ got accepted by TOIS. Congratulations to Maolin Wang, Xinjian Zhao, Sheng Zhang, Bowen Yu, and Binhao Wang!

Mar 2026

Jiangping Lv won 2nd place (10km Female Student) at the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2026. Congratulations!

Feb 2026

Our tutorial proposal ‘Function Calling in Large Language Models: From Fundamentals to Industrial Practice’ got accepted by PAKDD’26. Congratulations to Maolin Wang, Bowen Yu, and Yingyi Zhang!

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