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Assistant Professor

Yongqi ZHANG

Data Science and Analytics Thrust, HKUST (Guangzhou)

PhD in CSE, HKUST (2020) · BS, SJTU (2015)

  • Knowledge-integrated Machine Intelligence Lab
  • Guangzhou, China
  • [email protected]
  • Xiaohongshu: 977523145
Multimodal ReasoningRAG SystemsLLM AgentsAI4Science

KiMI Lab

Knowledge‑integrated Machine Intelligence

KiMI is dedicated to building AI systems that can understand, retrieve, reason, and act across modalities and domains by integrating data-driven learning with domain knowledge.

More broadly, Dr. Zhang is interested in integrating domain knowledge with foundation models to build more reliable, efficient, and impactful AI systems.

Understand Retrieve Reason Act
Recruitment

Students with an RBM MPhil or DCAI-MSc offer from HKUST(GZ) are welcome to get in touch for discussions on supervision and future PhD opportunities.

Research Directions

Multimodal Reasoning

Understanding and reasoning across vision, language, and structured knowledge.

RAG Systems

Multimodal search, retrieval, ranking, and grounded generation over large-scale corpora.

LLM Agents

Planning, memory, tool use, verification, and multi-agent collaboration for complex problem solving.

AI for Science

Knowledge-enhanced foundation models and intelligent systems for biology, materials, and engineering.

Main Collaborators

Students and Researchers

Ph.D.

7
Ph.D.

Zhuangfei Hu

since 2024.09

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Efficient Large Models
Ph.D.

Siyi Liu

since 2025.02

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Data Synthesis Multimodal Retrieval
Ph.D.

Hengwei Dai

since 2025.02 · part-time

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GraphRAG LLM for Code
Ph.D.

Yuhang He

since 2025.09

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Reinforcement Learning LLM Infra
Ph.D.

Xiaotang Wang

since 2025.09

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Multimodal Omics AI4Science
Ph.D.

Hange Zhou

since 2025.09

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Agentic Reasoning Embodied AI
Ph.D.

Haodong Wu

since 2026.02

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Reasoning RL LLM Agents

MPhil

6
MPhil

Runqing Xu

since 2024.09

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Embodied Memory LLM Agents
MPhil

Mingkai Qiu

since 2024.09

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Drug Discovery
MPhil

Hongyu Ge

since 2025.09

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Reasoning RL Agentic Reasoning
MPhil

Xiaorong Zhu

since 2025.09

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Multimodal Retrieval Game Agents
MPhil

Boyang Zhao

since 2025.09

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Embodied Memory Vision-Language Navigation
MPhil

Bairui Zhang

since 2025.09

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Agentic Reasoning Medical AI Safety

RA

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RA

Enjun Du

since 2024.07 · UG in BIT

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KG Reasoning Multimodal RAG
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Yijia Li

since 2025.09 · MSc in CUHK-SZ

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State Space Model