Wen HUA (華雯)

Associate Professor, Assistant Dean (Graduate Studies)
Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI)
Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Science (FCMS)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Office: AG402, Chung Sze Yuen Building, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
Phone: +852 2766 7237 | Email: wency.hua@polyu.edu.hk
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Research Grants
  • [2026-2029] Entity-Relation Extraction for Domain-Specific Low-Resource Scenarios, NSFC General Program (#62576236), RMB 500,000, Co-Investigator
  • [2025-2027] Optimizing RAG with Dynamic Knowledge: Efficiency, Integration, and Adaptation, Huawei Talent Fund, HKD $990,000, Principal Investigator
  • [2024-2027] Topic Taxonomy Construction and Application in Box Embedding Spaces, NSFC General Program (#62372483), RMB 500,000, Co-Investigator
  • [2023-2027] Developing a Cost-effective Framework for Entity Alignment in Real-world Knowledge Graphs, PolyU Presidental Young Scholar Research Grant, HKD $3,281,400, Principal Investigator
  • [2022-2025] Context-aware Representation Learning for Code Analysis, Joint Research Grant with Oracle Labs Australia, AUD $148,000, Principal Investigator
  • [2022-2023] Solar Photovoltaics Forecasting for Efficient Power Management, ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (#LE220100022), AUD $475,000, Co-Investigator
  • [2021-2026] ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Information Resilience (#IC200100022), AUD $13,883,406, Co-Investigator
  • [2021-2023] Information Extraction from Large-Scale Low-Quality Data, ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (#DE210100160), AUD $423,000, Principal Investigator
  • [2020-2023] Making Spatiotemporal Data More Useful: An Entity Linking Approach, ARC Discovery Project (#DP200103650), AUD $493,000, Principal Investigator
  • [2019-2023] Real-time Analytics on Urban Trajectory Data for Road Traffic Management, ARC Linkage Project (#LP180100018), AUD $480,000, Co-Investigator
  • [2019-2023] Collaborative Lab of Health Informatics with Neusoft China, AUD $937,000, Co-Investigator
  • [2017-2020] Machine Learning, Data Analytics and Knowledge Management for Microgrid Data, Advance Queensland Early Career Research Fellowship, AUD $397,000, Principal Investigator
  • [2017-2018] Realtime Battery Scheduling Based on Solar and Load Forecasting, UQ Start-Up Research Grant, AUD $50,000, Principal Investigator
Research Team
  • Boyan Liu (PhD): To start in September 2026
  • Houling Shen (URIS): To start in September 2026
  • Yu Lin (URIS): To start in September 2026
  • Ziyang Tian (URIS): To start in September 2026
  • Zitong Gu (URIS): To start in September 2026
  • Shuang Shan (URIS): Started in September 2025, Topic: Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Inference of LLMs on Edge Devices
  • Wenlong Liu (PhD): Started in September 2024, Topic: Knowledge Graph Reasoning under Unreliable Evidence
  • Shiqi Fan (PhD): Started in September 2024, Topic: Evidence-Grounded LLM Reasoning for Temporal Knowledge Graphs
  • Jiayun Li (PhD): Started in January 2023, Topic: Entity Alignment Across Temporal Knowledge Graphs
Alumni
  • Ziyi Liu (PhD): Completed in August 2023, Thesis: A Study on Multi-Constraint Shortest Path Queries in Road Network. Work as Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • Fengmei Jin (PhD): Completed in August 2023, Thesis: A Study on Privacy Protection Techniques for Spatiotemporal Data. Work as Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • Bing Liu (PhD): Completed in August 2023, Thesis: Practical Neural Entity Alignment. Work at OPPO Research Institute, China
  • Kexuan Xin (PhD): Completed in September 2022, Thesis: A Study on Embedding-based Entity Alignment. Work as Postdoc at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Tianyu Zhu (MPhil): Completed in July 2021, Thesis: Countering Lead Bias in Extractive Document Summarization. Work at Lazada Alibaba, China
  • Mengxuan Zhang (PhD & Postdoc): Completed in March 2021, Thesis: Efficient Shortest Path Query Processing in Dynamic Road Networks. Work as Senior Lecturer at Australian National University, Australia
  • Jianfeng Qu (PhD & Postdoc): Completed in December 2020, Thesis: A Study on Key Techniques for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction. Work as Associate Professor at Renmin University of China, China
  • Yu Liu (PhD): Completed in December 2020, Thesis: A Study on Temporal Knowledge Graph Enrichment. Work as Assistant Professor at University of International Relations, China
  • Pingfu Chao (PhD): Completed in December 2019, Thesis: A Study on Map-Matching and Map Inference Problems. Work as Associate Professor at Soochow University, China
  • Lei Li (PhD): Completed in July 2018, Thesis: A Study on Time-Dependent Reachability and Route Scheduing in Road Network. Work as Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China