(Collaborative Intelligence with Construction Informatics in Construction Industrialization)

Welcome to the CI³ Lab! We are a team of dedicated researchers who specialize in CI³ at HKU.

The CI³ Lab is directed by Dr. Xiao LI and aims to address the grand interdisciplinary challenges in construction industrialization by developing transdisciplinary approaches in construction informatics to answer the multidisciplinary scientific questions in collaborative intelligence.

CI³ Lab is affiliated with the Department of Civil Engineering at HKU.​

Recent research areas for the vacancies:
(1) Knowledge collaboration: Language models, knowledge graphs, casualty learning, knowledge distillation, semantics enrichment, and AI agent/multi-agent simulation.
(2) Collaborative scheduling: Reinforcement learning, combinatorial/stochastic/heuristic-based optimization for production/project/maintenance scheduling.
(3) Distributed collaboration: Advanced blockchain system, federated learning/unlearning, and decentralized learning.
(4) Collaborative robots: human-robot collaboration, assembly robots, production robots, bio-inspired robots, multi-senor fusion, vision language model/vision language action.

Our research works are open-sourced! Explore them on our Lab’s GitHub Repository.

Recruiting:
We are looking for self-motivated talents at different levels, including Research Assistant Professor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D. students, Research Assistants (or Hardware/Software Engineers), and Research (Remote) Interns to work together on various collaborative intelligence topics in industrialized construction.

For salaries:
(1) PhD students:
· RPG scholarship: HK$19,135-HK$19,655/month, https://shorturl.at/wzRV7
· HKPF scholarship: HK$28,400 /month+ HK$100,000 cash, https://shorturl.at/fwJ79
· HKU-PS scholarship: HK$28,400/month + HK$100,000 cash, https://shorturl.at/lstPY

(2) Research Assistant Professor Salary ≥ HK$ 48,000

(3) Postdoctoral fellow:
· PDF salary: ≥ HK$29,000/month
· RGC Postdoctoral fellowship: ≥ HK$35,000/month
· Jockey Club Global STEM Post-doctoral Fellowship: ≥ HK$44,000/month.

(4) Research Assistant/Engineers/Interns (case by case)
· Research assistants, hardware/software engineers, and research interns are welcome to collaborate with us on various research projects (preferably >= 6 months).

If you’re interested in working with us, please drop an email to shell.x.li@hku.hk. Please include the following information in your email:
· Use the email subject as “Position (e.g., PhD, PDF, or RA): Your Name – Your Affiliation.”
· CV (including your publications, transcript with ranking and GPA, and education background).
· Indicate your research experience and achievements in the email.
· Indicate your technical and theoretical skills in the email.
· Every year, mass email enquiries are received, Please understand ONLY applicants with exceptional academic potential and fits with our positions will be contacted.