James Cheng
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Email: jcheng@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
Email: j.cheng@acm.org
Telephone: (+852) 3943 4259
Fax: (+852) 2603 5024
Office: Rm 107, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building
Research Interests
- Agentic RAG/Graph RAG, vector compression & vector search, AI memory & context
- High performance systems for data analytics and machine learning
Recruitment
- Graduate student recruitment (for August 2026 entry):
Applicants who are interested in topics related to agentic RAG/Graph RAG, vector compression & vector search, and AI memory & context, may send your detailed CV and transcript to jcheng@cse.cuhk.edu.hk and j.cheng@acm.org with the email subject "phd application" or "mphil application".
Special Recruitment
- Frontier Research on Embodied AI (具身智能) Frameworks for Robotics Applications:
Joint research projects with a star robotics startup, founded by a team of distinguished research scientists and engineers in Embodied AI and Robotics, including former Huawei researchers, ex-product managers from DJI, former Google researchers, ex-project managers from HONOR, and research groups from top-tier universities.
Our research focuses on the following areas:
- Advancing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for embodied AI tasks.
- Diffusion policies for delicate operations.
- Topics related to visual-language navigation.
- Building interactive AI agents, including low-latency voice assistants, MCP, memory, and proactive and personalized agents.
- Pioneering the next-generation Vision-Language-Action (VLA) paradigm for embodied AI.