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Lemontea Tom works as an independent software engineer in Hong Kong. Tom's public GitHub projects include a hands-on educational project on watermarking LLM outputs and short notes on the math behind AI and ML. Tom's Hugging Face work includes an SDXL Turbo ComfyUI test space, and their stack includes GLM and llama.cpp.

Jixin Zhao is a PhD candidate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, researching low-level vision in its Visual Computing Lab. Earlier, Jixin trained at Nanyang Technological University, completing a master's in signal processing and then serving as a research assistant at MMLab. Jixin is a co-author of ObjectClear, a CVPR 2026 paper on removing objects and their effects from images.

I work on consequential systems — systems in which digital decisions, agents, software, transactions, machines or human approvals can produce meaningful financial, digital, organizational or physical effects. I originated the EvidenceToEffect (E2E) research programme as a broader end-to-end consequential-system problem space and research architecture. E2E asks how evidence, governing context, auth

Chris Burke is the Founder and CEO of AGI Cards, which describes its work as voice-first, Qi-powered AI. Chris describes himself as a technologist and inventor, has been at AGI Cards since January 2023, and has worked on the aitrustcards project, a Python repository built for the Gemma 4 Hackathon.

Simplify CEO&AI Engineer HKBU Bachelor of CS HKUST Master of AI

Jesse Chow serves as Technical Co-founder at Independent, where the work centers on synthetic personas used for application quality assurance. Based in Hong Kong, Jesse presents as a product engineer and former founder who takes projects from first build through to release. Currently focused on synthetic persona tooling that helps teams test software before it reaches users.

Fating Hong is a computer science researcher from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he was advised by Prof. Dan Xu. He works on talking head generation, avatar animation and video generation. Fating is the author of the CVPR 2022 DaGAN, ICCV 2023 MCNET and ICCV 2025 ACTalker papers, and he earlier did master's research in video understanding at Sun Yat-sen University.

Cavan Tao is the founder of LegoX, a Hong Kong-based collection of open-source projects covering agentic data pipelines, training frameworks, evaluation benchmarks and foundation models. LegoX aims to connect these pieces into reproducible systems that researchers and teams can extend. Recent releases include Lego-RL, a framework for reinforcement learning of coding agents, and LegoFlow, a framewo

Raphael Mansuy is the founder of ELITIZON Ltd, a startup studio in Hong Kong where he also serves as CTO. He is a long-time developer with a focus on data engineering, data science and AI, and he writes about those topics as an author. He is also a founder and board member of QuantaLogic, an AI platform in Paris. Raphael now builds open-source tools such as EdgeQuake, a Rust Graph-RAG framework, a

Kairun Wen is a first-year Ph.D. student at MMLab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Hongsheng Li. His research covers embodied foundation models and multimodal spatial intelligence. Kairun studied at the School of Informatics at Xiamen University and has worked with the VITA Group at UT Austin and InternRobotics at Shanghai AI Lab. He is working toward robot agents that can mo