In August 2025, supervised paper “Learning Task-Oriented Communication for Edge Inference: An Information Bottleneck Approach” received the IEEE Communications Society Katherine Johnson Young Author Best Paper Award
In 2025, multiple PhD students received the HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award
In 2025, a student received the ECE Best TA Award for 2024/25
In May/July 2025, two PhD students successfully defended their theses
Published numerous papers in top-tier conferences in 2025, including NeurIPS, ICCV, ICML, ICLR, INFOCOM, and AAAI, covering topics such as Forge4D (4D human reconstruction), LinVideo (efficient video generation), PixelCraft (multi-agent visual reasoning), WebWeaver (web-scale research agent), UniFork (multimodal alignment), VLMQ (vision-language model quantization), SenseFlow (text-to-image distillation), QVGen (quantized video generation), and ManGO (diffusion-guided optimization)