Leadership & Impact

Beyond research, I am actively engaged in building institutions, shaping policy discourse, and translating AI research into real-world impact. This page consolidates my leadership roles, research funding, honors, media presence, and professional services.

Academic Leadership

Head of the Large Language Model Division
Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre (HKGAI)
2024 – present
As a founding member of HKGAI and lead author of the HKGAI-V1 technical report, I lead the LLM Division, overseeing the development of Hong Kong’s sovereign large language model. This role combines direct engineering access to a sovereign LLM with strategic leadership in AI governance.

Assistant Professor & Associate Director
HKUST-DXM AI for Finance Joint Laboratory
January 2024 – present
Joint appointment across the Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas, Department of Economics, and Division of Arts and Machine Creativity at HKUST.

Policy Impact

My research directly informs government policy. As Head of the LLM Division at HKGAI, I served as the lead author of the Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Technical and Application Guideline — the first official AI governance guideline issued by the HKSAR Government.

Hong Kong Generative AI Technical and Application Guideline
Lead Author | Commissioned by the Digital Policy Office (DPO), HKSAR Government
Officially released: April 15, 2025 | Version 1.1: December 2025

This 49-page guideline establishes Hong Kong’s governance framework for generative AI, covering technical risks, five dimensions of governance (personal data privacy, intellectual property, crime prevention, reliability & trustworthiness, system security), and key principles for compliance, transparency, accuracy, fairness, and accountability. It provides practical operational guidance for technology developers, service providers, and users across all sectors.

The Commissioner for Digital Policy, Mr Tony Wong, publicly acknowledged HKGAI’s “professional research and contributions to the formulation of the Guideline” at the Forum on Large AI Models of the World Internet Conference Asia-Pacific Summit.

Guideline (Full Text)

HKSAR Government Official Press Release

Research Funding

I have secured over HK$33 million in competitive research funding as PI or Co-PI. My research has attracted sustained support from both government agencies and leading technology companies, reflecting the practical relevance and industry recognition of our work in AI safety, legal reasoning, efficient LLMs, and multimodal intelligence.

Government-Funded Research

Project	Sponsor	Programme	Period	Role
Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Center (HKGAI)	Innovation and Technology Commission	AIR@InnoHK	2023–2026	Co-I

Industry-Sponsored Research

Project	Sponsor	Amount (HKD)	Period	Role
Financial Credit Slow Thinking Large Language Model	Du Xiaoman Financial	$32.03M	2024–2027	Co-I
HKUST-MetaX Joint Laboratory for Advanced AI Computing	MetaX Integrated Circuits	$28.00M	2024–2029	Co-I
Large-Scale Fine-Tuning and Alignment of MoE Large Models	MetaX Integrated Circuits	$835K	2024–2026	Co-I
Low Bit Transferring: Native MoE FFN Transferring Algorithm	WeBank	$350K	2025–2027	PI

Honors & Awards

Year	Award	Granting Body
2024	Bronze Medal — LexiHK, Legal AI Assistant	50th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
2018–19	J. William Fulbright-RGC Hong Kong Research Scholar Award	Research Grants Council, Hong Kong
2017	HKSAR Scholarship Fund – Reaching Out Award	Hong Kong Government
2014	King’s–China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship	Chinese Scholarship Council
2012	Social Research Achievement Award	Guangdong Provincial Government
2011	China National Scholarship	Ministry of Education, PRC
2011	Sino-Singapore Undergraduate Exchange Fellow	PRC Central Government
2011	Undergraduate Innovation Experimental Program Research Output Award	Guangdong Provincial Government
2010	China National Scholarship	Ministry of Education, PRC
2010	Outstanding Undergraduate Exchange Fellow	Sun Yat-sen University
2008–12	Lingnan Foundation Liberal Education Fellow	Lingnan Foundation

Media Coverage & Commentary

My work has been featured in major media outlets, and I serve as a regular commentator on AI policy and technology governance in the Greater Bay Area.

South China Morning Post — Coverage of AI governance and legal technology research
China Daily — Commentary on AI policy developments in Hong Kong

Professional Services

2024–present Head of LLM Division, Hong Kong Generative AI R&D Center
2023–2024 Senior Manager, Hong Kong Generative AI R&D Center
2023–present Non-JUPAS Interview Panel Member, Undergraduate Programs, School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2023–present Council Member, Hong Kong Young Scientist Association
2017–2018 Postgraduate Student Representative, University Health Services Committee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2016–2017 Postgraduate Student Representative, Faculty Board Meeting, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong