Prof. Tracy Mok joined the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) at the end of March 2025. Prior to joining HKUST, she served at the School of Fashion and Textiles (formerly the Institute of Textiles and Clothing) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for 20 years. During her tenure, she held the position of Associate Head for the Institute of Textiles and Clothing, assisting its upgrade to an independent school. Prof. Mok’s research interests focus on artificial intelligence in design technology applications, including 2D and 3D computer-aided design, digital human modelling, cloth simulation,  XR and interaction design, 2D and 3D pose estimation, ergonomics and smart healthcare applications. She also conducts data science, industrial and system optimization, and sustainability research. Since 2012, she has successfully secured research fudning over HK$46 million, published over 150 research articles in world-leading top-tier research journals, and holds  a number of trademark, patents, software copyrights, and licenses. Her research findings have received widespread recognition from both academia and business, making a significant impact on the fashion industry. Notably, with her guidance, one of her PhD graduates commercialized their research technology through a startup, which secured venture investment of over 20 million RMB. Prof. Mok’s achievements include winning 14 prestigious international awards, such as the Gold Medal of the 35th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva and the Silver Medal of the 1st Asia Exhibition of Inventions Hong Kong. Additionally, Prof. Mok is dedicated to serving the education community and the society at large. She has served as the Associate Director of the Research Centre for Future Fashion and Textiles, Executive Committee Member of the Hong Kong Institution of Textile and Apparel (HKITA), a vetting committee member of the Create Smart Initiative for CreateHK of Hong Kong SAR government, as well as a steering committee member of the Artificial Intelligence Special Committee of the China Textile Engineering Society, among other roles.

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Dr. Wenchao Xu is current an Assistant Professor in the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China and his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research areas include multimodal learning, edge computing, integrated AI & networking design and have published papers at top journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, and others.

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Dr. Liu is an assistant professor in the Division of Integrated Systems Design at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained his PhD degree at the University of Hong Kong and did his PostDoc at Nanyang Technological University. Prior to that, he obtained both his Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Wuhan University.

His research mainly concentrates on 3D computer vision and computer graphics. He is currently working on topics on 3D AIGC including 3D neural representations, 3D generative models, and 3D-aware video generation. His works are mainly published on top journals or conferences of CV and CG such as SIGGRAPH (Asia), ToG, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV,  T-PAMI, NeurIPS,  and ICLR. 

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Prof. Yunlong Zi, PhD, FInstP, SMIEEE, FIAAM, is an Associate Professor in Thrust of Sustainable Energy and Environment in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Guangzhou (HKUST-GZ). Prof. Zi received his Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University in 2014; his Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2009. Before joining HKUST, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong during 2017-2022, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology during 2014-2017. Prof. Zi is an active scholar in the field of triboelectric nanogenerator for high-performance energy harvesting. He coined the field of tribo-photonics toward the self-powered wireless sensing solutions. He has published over 150 journal publications with total citation of over 16000. Prof. Zi was honored as Fellow of Institute of Physics (FInstP) 2023; Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE) 2023; MIT Technological Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Asia & Pacific 2022; Nano Energy Award winner 2021. He was also as Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM) 2021; Vebleo Fellow 2021; the winner of MRS Postdoctoral Award by Materials Research Society in 2017; the Emerging Investigators by Journal of Materials Chemistry C in 2018; MINE Young Investigator Finalist in 2018; and one of “5 students who are transformation makers” as highlighted in Purdue homepage in 2013.

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