Professor LAM, Wai
Office : Room 907, William M.W. Mong Eng. Bld.
Tel : (852) 3943-8306
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Biography

Wai Lam received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. He obtained his BSc. and M.Phil. degrees from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. After completing his Ph.D. degree, he conducted research at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the University of Iowa. He joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is currently a professor.

His research interests include world models, natural language processing, text mining, intelligent information retrieval, web mining, machine learning, and knowledge-based systems. He has published articles in the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, etc.

His research projects have been funded by the Hong Kong SAR Government General Research Fund (GRF) and DARPA (USA). He also managed industrial projects funded by Innovation and Technology Fund (industrial grant) and IT companies.

Research Interests

• World Models
• Natural Language Processing
• Text Mining
• Intelligent Information Retrieval
• Web Mining

Publications

• DBLP
• Google Scholar

Datasets

• Datasets for semi-structured data record detection
• Datasets for enterprise entity retrieval
• Datasets for reader-aware multi-document summarization

Codes

• Source code for Web page segmentation

Students

• Shuaiyi LI (PhD, 2022~)
• Junpeng LIU (PhD, 2023~)
• Chulun ZHOU (PhD, 2023~)
• Bowen CAO (PhD, 2024~)
• Siheng LI (PhD, 2024~)
• Ting XU (PhD, 2024~)
• Xinye LI (PhD, 2026~)
• Runze XIA (PhD, 2026~)

Alumni

• Sen YANG (PhD, 2022, Alibaba Qwen)
• Chaojun WANG (PhD, 2021, CSCN)
• Hongyuan LU (PhD, 2021, FaceMind)
• Chang GAO (PhD, 2020, Alibaba Qwen)
• Weiwen XU (PhD, 2020, Alibaba DAMO Academy)
• Haoran YANG (PhD, 2019, Huawei)
• Yang DENG (PhD, 2019, Singapore Management University)
• Yifei YUAN (PhD, 2019, University of Copenhagen)
• Kwun Ping LAI (PhD, 2018)
• Deng CAI (PhD, 2018, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
• Wenxuan ZHANG (PhD, 2018, Singapore University of Technology and Design)
• Zihao FU (PhD, 2017, University of Oxford)
• Xin SHEN (PhD, 2017)
• Xin LI (PhD, 2016, Alibaba DAMO Academy)
• Qian YU (PhD, 2016, JD.com, Inc.)
• Xinshi LIN (PhD, 2015)
• Bei SHI (PhD, 2014, Bytedance)
• Piji LI (PhD, 2014, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
• Yi LIAO (PhD, 2013, Tencent)
• Yinqing XU (Qube Research&Technologist)
• Mohammad Shoaib JAMEEL (University of Southampton)
• Lidong BING (Shanda Group)
• Tak Lam WONG (Douglas College, Canada)
• Ki Cecia CHAN (HKUST)
• Chunliang LU
• Bo CHEN (Tencent Cloud)
• Xiaofeng YU (HP Labs China)
• Ruizhang HUANG (Guizhou University)
• Yiu Kei WU
• On Yip Andy CHUNG (Azeus Systems Limited)
• Ka Kan LO
• Jiani XIONG
• Tik Shun WONG
• Pik Shan CHEUNG
• Chi Kin KEUNG
• Yiqiu HAN