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20250918, [Service] Prof. Irwin King was accepted as a Program Committee Member for the Short Papers, WebConf 2026, Dubai.

20250918, [Service] Prof. Irwin King was accepted as a Senior Program Committee Member for the Responsible Web Track, WebConf 2026, Dubai.

Prof. King has been included in the “2025 AI 2000 Global Artificial Intelligence Scholars List” and awarded the “2025 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention” in the area of Information Retrieval and Recommendation, based on published papers from 2015 to 2024. Congratulations to Prof. King!

One paper was accepted to Nature Computational Science. Congratulations to Yixuan! Predicting Drug Responses of Unseen Cell Types through Transfer Learning with Foundation Models. Nature Computational Science. 2025.Y Wang*, X Liu*, Y Fan, B Xie, J Cheng, K-C Wong, P Cheung, I King, Y Li.

Two tutorials were accepted to The 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26). Singapore. January 20 – January 27, 2026. Hyperbolic Geometry for Foundation Models: A Tutorial. The 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26). Singapore. Toward Foundation Models for Detecting Abnormal Activities on Graphs. The 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26). Singapore.

Five papers were accepted to the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025). Congratulations to Zhihan, Wenqian, Yifei, Minda, and Ian! Zhihan Guo, Jiele Wu, Wenqian Cui, Yifei Zhang, Minda Hu, Yufei Wang, Irwin King. From General Reward to Targeted Reward: Improving Open-ended Long-context Generation Models. EMNLP 2025. Minda Hu, Qiyuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, Bowei […]

We are delighted to congratulate Professor King on his appointment as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This prestigious appointment recognizes Professor King’s exceptional leadership in both academic research and educational innovation throughout his distinguished career. As the director of our laboratory, Professor King has been instrumental in advancing cutting-edge research in […]

One paper was accepted to the Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in the Era of Foundation Models: Opportunities, Challenges and Futures at ICML 2025. Congratulations to Muzhi Li. Yihong Wu, Liheng Ma, Muzhi Li, Jiaming Zhou, Ho-fung Leung, Jianye HAO, Irwin King, Yingxue Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie.  Reinforcing Question Answering Agents with Minimalist Policy Gradient Optimization.  Workshop on Multi-Agent […]