Welcome to the Machine Intelligence and Nature-Inspired Computing (MIND) Lab, located in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Our lab is at the forefront of research in the exciting and rapidly evolving field of nature-inspired artificial intelligence. We are dedicated to exploring the latest advancements in AI and their applications in diverse fields such as material science, healthcare, logistics, robotics, and speech processing.
At MIND, we are proud to have an exceptional research team, whose contributions have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards. These include the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award in both 2019 and 2024, the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Outstanding Paper Award in 2020, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Award in 2016, and the 1st Prize of International Competition for Brain-inspired Computing in 2018.
We welcome individuals who are passionate about cutting-edge AI research and who want to make a difference in the world. Join us at MIND and be a part of our dynamic and innovative team!
News
Congratulations to Mr. Chenxiang MA for his work “Spatiotemporal Decoupled Learning for Spiking Neural Networks” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
May 2026
Congratulations to Mr. Haokai HONG for his work “Enhancing Generalization and Scalability for Multi-Objective Optimization with Population Pre-Training” accepted by Evolutionary Computation.
May 2026
Congratulations to Mr. Haokai HONG for his work “Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation: Direct Interatomic Modeling with Dilated Message Passing” accepted by ICML.
May 2026
Congratulations to Dr. Xinyi CHEN for her work “Temporal structure encoding drives accurate and robust temporal processing in spiking neural networks” accepted by IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.
May 2026
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR