James Cheng
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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
- Evaluation, benchmarking, and rubric-based reward design of LLM Agents
- RL algorithms for long-horizon reasoning, recursive self-improvement and continual learning, personalized and proactive agents
- RL infrastructure and high-performance systems for large-scale multimodal training and serving
- Multimodal and omni foundation models, agentic multimodal understanding and generation
Recruitment
- Graduate student recruitment (for August 2027 entry):
Applicants who are interested in topics related to my research interests listed above may send your detailed CV and transcript to jcheng@cse.cuhk.edu.hk with the email subject "phd application" or "mphil application".
- Frontier Research on Embodied AI Frameworks for Robotics Applications:
Joint research projects with a group of experts in Embodied AI from both industry and top-tier universities. We seek highly motivated students passionate about shaping the future of embodied agents to improve the lives of thousands of families. Available positions include PhD, MPhil, RAs, and Interns. Send your detailed CV and transcript to jcheng@cse.cuhk.edu.hk with the email subject "Embodied AI opportunites".