With a focus on serving highly intelligent machine perception and cognition systems, combining data-driven and knowledge-guided approaches, and utilizing structured and unstructured data, we conduct research in the fields of data intelligence, computational intelligence, and intelligent information systems. Our aim is to develop new approaches in artificial intelligence based on data as the foundation and computation as the means.

The main research areas include semantic representation of multi-modal data such as sequence data, natural language, and image data; intelligent perception, semantic analysis, and mining of complex system states; management (knowledge graph, etc.), representation learning (graph neural networks, etc.), and mining of large-scale graph-structured data; knowledge extraction and reasoning; computational intelligence theories and methods (Firework Algorithm, etc.); reinforcement learning and multi-agent systems; as well as the development of application systems in data intelligence and computational intelligence industries.

In recent years, we have undertaken over 20 national, provincial, international cooperation, and industry-funded research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China, programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China, and original exploration projects. We have published over 100 papers in top journals and conferences in this field and authored six monographs. We have received numerous awards, including 1 second prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education, 2 second prizes of the Beijing Natural Science Award, 1 second prize of Natural Science Award of the CCF, and 2 Best Paper Awards. We have established joint laboratories with Alibaba Group, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Air China, State Grid Corporation of China, Highway Monitoring & Response Center, Ministry of Transport of the P. R. C, Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Management, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Coordinated Administrative Law Enforcement for Urban Management, China Mobile Communications Group, Huawei, and others, actively serving national major needs and local economic development.