AI for the Well-being Economy @HKUST
Welcome to our research lab. We are committed to harnessing the power of AI to elevate human well-being and drive meaningful economic growth. We believe that advancing human well-being can create substantial economic value for individuals, organizations, and society.
Co-Directors
Prof. Zijun (June) Shi
Personal Webpage: https://www.zijunshi.com/
June is an Assistant Professor at the HKUST Business School, an affiliated faculty at the HKUST Big Data Institute, and a core member of the AI Ethics and Governance Lab at HKUST. Her recent research focuses on leveraging AI technologies to (1) improve human social and mental well-being, and (2) generate economic value for business entities and the human society at large. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Administration and M.S. in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University.
​Prof. Junxian He
Personal Webpage: https://jxhe.github.io/
Junxian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST. His research focus is on natural language processing, specializing in long-horizon reasoning and planning of large language models. He obtained his Ph.D. from Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He also worked at Facebook AI Research and Salesforce Research.
Prof. Mengze Shi
Personal Webpage: https://mark.hkust.edu.hk/faculty-and-staff/directory/mengzeshi
Mengze is the Yuk-Shee Chan Professor of Business at HKUST. He specializes in customer relationship management, sales management, and marketing innovation. Mengze has received numerous prestigious research grants, both in Canada (where he previously served as Ellison Professor of Marketing at the University of Toronto) and at HKUST. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
Research Projects
AI Companion for Human Social Well-being
We investigate the evolving dynamics of the affective relationship between companion AI service and human users.
AI Psychotherapist for Human Mental Well-being
We examine whether and how LLMs can deliver psychotherapy on par with trained human professionals.
Emotion AI
We develop AI-driven solutions with improved emotional intelligence for social support application.