Hong Kong University Internship

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In the summer of 2026, HKU School of Computing and Data Science will launch a Research Internship Programme accepting around 40 outstanding Computer Science, and AI and Data Science undergraduate students from Mainland China or other overseas countries.

• Application Deadline: May 31, 2026
• Notification of Acceptance: In May (weird) and can be before if applicat and supervisor agree
• Internship Duration: July 19 to August 31, 2026 (6 weeks)
• Location: It seems that both on-campus and remote internships are available
• Stipend:
  • Remote: HKD 19,601 (approximately USD 2,500).
  • On-campus: Will recieve extra stipend to cover air tickets and hotel fees
• Eligibility:
  • 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate students in Computer Science, AI, or Data Science
• Application Materials:
  • Application Form
  • Genral Information (name, contact, etc.)
  • Statement of Purpose (max 150 words)
  • Choice of research areas (up to 3; ordered)
    • Data Science & Engineering
    • Computer Vision & Graphics
    • Machine Learning Fundamentals
    • Biological & Medical AI
  • Proposed Supervisor (optional; up to 3; ordered)
  • Attachments
    • Transcript
    • CV (Up to 2 pages)
    • Recommendation Letter (optional)
    • All have to be combined in one pdf <= 5MB

It’s much preferred to contact potential supervisors before applying.

• Potential AI & DS Supervisors
• Potential CS Supervisors

Supervisors Shortlist

Professor Chao Huang

Homepage

Lab GiHub

• Has multiple worl related to RAG, Graph Models, and LLMs
• Some Projects:
  • Paper2Slides: Close to my work in SEU.
  • RAG-Anything: This is the project I wanted to do for my graduation thesis, but I didn’t because I found out some random professor in HKU has done it 😂
  • VideoRAG: This is the project I thought of reimplementing and improving so that Dr. Bernard Ghanem at IVUL can accept it as an internship project
  • DeepTutor: AI-Powered Personalized Learning Assistant. This is quite close to my current idea for the graduation thesis: AI-Powered System for MOOC Generation

On his site, he says he is open for “Research Assistant/Remote Interns/Visitors”, but he preferes long projects (>= 6 months).

You should email him with the following content:

• Use email subject as “Prospective Student: Your Name - Your Affiliation”.
• Please describe your i) Education background; ii) Research experience and achievements; iii) Programming/Theoretical skills.
• Please attach your resume (including your publications, ranking/GPA, anything important) with a pdf file.

Professor Ping Luo

Homepage

Many of his recent work focuses on gnerative models, especially diffusion models.

Many of his work is in the are of image generation, video generation, text to image/video generation, 3D vision, scene understanding, and medical image analysis.

He is the author of the CelebA dataset which I have used in the VAE project.

He says on his site that he is actively recruting “Research Assistants (RAs), Interns and Research Scientists”. You should email him through pluo.lhi@gmail.com.

Professor Lingpeng Kong

Head of NLP lab in HKU.

Says he takes interns whom usually know (students in his courses). No point in trying here.

Professor Yi Ma

Many of his recent work is related to robotics.

He is also a professot in Berkeley.

I don’t think he is suitable.

Professor Hengshuang Zhao

Homepage

His focus is on visual scene understanding, generative models, visual content generation, and LLM Applications

He says his lab is looking for interns. You should email him with your resume.

My Plan

I shall email both Professor Chao Huang and Professor Ping Luo, and see if they are interested in taking me as an intern.

If I recieve no response after 2 weeks, I will apply directly through the application form with the following list of supervisors:

1. Professor Chao Huang
2. Professor Ping Luo
3. Professor Hengshuang Zhao

As of this moment, I am undecided on the research area to mention in the application form.