Steven HOI
Full-time Faculty
Professor of Computer Science
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006
Teaching Topics
- Machine Learning Technology & Applications
- IS Application Project
- MITB Capstone Project
Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
Strategic Priorities
HighlightsSteven HOI is a leading expert in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and online learning, renowned for his pioneering research in scalable algorithms, multimedia analytics, and computational finance.
Steven HOI's work bridges theoretical innovation and practical deployment, advancing scalable and efficient machine learning methods for real-world applications in finance, multimedia, cybersecurity, and social media analytics. He is recognized for methodological rigor, interdisciplinary impact, and leadership in editorial and conference roles.
Focused research areas include Scalable online learning algorithms; deep learning for multimedia and image retrieval; online portfolio selection and computational finance; recommender systems; active learning; cost-sensitive classification; big data analytics; cybersecurity applications.
Steven HOI's work bridges theoretical innovation and practical deployment, advancing scalable and efficient machine learning methods for real-world applications in finance, multimedia, cybersecurity, and social media analytics. He is recognized for methodological rigor, interdisciplinary impact, and leadership in editorial and conference roles.
Focused research areas include Scalable online learning algorithms; deep learning for multimedia and image retrieval; online portfolio selection and computational finance; recommender systems; active learning; cost-sensitive classification; big data analytics; cybersecurity applications.
Areas of Expertise
Machine LearningMultimodal AINLPMultimediaComputer Vision
Past Awarded Grant
- Personalized Participatory Nation: The Proposal for 2nd Phase Funding of Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC) - CMU Partnership & International Collaborations, Interactive Digital Media (IDM) International Research Centres (IRCs) Funding Scheme, National Research Foundation (NRF), PI (Programme Level): LIM Ee Peng, PI (Project Level): Archan MISRA, ZHENG Baihua, Steven HOI, Jing JIANG, 2017
- An on-line process monitoring scheme to improve accuracy of the tube boiler inspection process, Energy Innovation Research Program - SembCorp-EMA Energy Technology Partnership (EIRP-SEETP) Grant, National Research Foundation (NRF), Co-PI (Project Level): Steven HOI, 2016
- Personalized Participatory Nation: The Proposal for 2nd Phase Funding of Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC), Interactive Digital Media (IDM) International Research Centres (IRCs) Funding Scheme, National Research Foundation (NRF), PI (Programme Level): LIM Ee Peng, PI (Project Level): Archan MISRA, ZHENG Baihua, Steven HOI, Jing JIANG, 2016
- Anti-Malweb: Combating Malicious Web via Big Data Analytics with Machine Learning Techniques, Defence Innovative Research Programme (DIRP), Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), PI (Project Level): Steven HOI, 2015
- Video Big Data Analytics by Deep and Scalable Machine Learning Techniques, Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd, PI (Project Level): Steven HOI, 2015
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- Y Zhang, Y Sun, M Zhang, F Yu, S Chen, Y Li, C Wang, J Zhu, SCH HoiIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2026
- J Ren, L Liu, S HoiarXiv preprint arXiv:2603.01506, 2026
- Fine-Grained Multimodal Alignment for Image-Text Retrieval via Graph Learning: M. Chen et al. [2026]M Chen, X Zhang, L Qi, X Li, X Yang, SCH Hoi, Z Liu, MH YangInternational Journal of Computer Vision 134 (3), 127, 2026
- J Xu, Z Chen, S Yang, J Li, W Wang, X Hu, S Hoi, E NgaiIEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2026
- Forging spatial intelligence: A roadmap of multi-modal data pre-training for autonomous systems [2025]S Wang, L Kong, X Liu, H Shi, W Li, J Zhu, SCH HoiarXiv preprint arXiv:2512.24385, 2025
- H Zhou, X Zhang, P Tong, J Zhang, L Chen, Q Kong, C Cai, C Liu, ...arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22047, 2025
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Qualification
- PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006
Teaching Topics
- Machine Learning Technology & Applications
- IS Application Project
- MITB Capstone Project