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**The Chinese University of Hong Kong** (**CUHK**) is the current doctoral institution of [Xinbao Qiao](./Xinbao_Qiao.md), who is affiliated with its Department of Information Engineering. In this wiki the CUHK page functions as an institutional context page rather than a general encyclopedia article: it records why the university matters to Qiao's research biography, how the information-engineering program frames his current work, and where the doctoral phase sits in relation to earlier training at [Zhejiang University](./Zhejiang_University.md) and [Shandong University](./Shandong_University.md).[^cuhk-intro]

## Program

Qiao's current program is Information Engineering within CUHK Engineering, advised by [Angela Yingjun Zhang](./Angela_Yingjun_Zhang.md). The CUHK Graduate School describes the MPhil-PhD in Information Engineering as a research program for students pursuing fundamental and applied work in communications, networking, information processing, and security.[^cuhk-grad] This program context is closely aligned with Qiao's current emphasis on [data-centric ML](./Data_Centric_Machine_Learning.md) and [AI and networks](./AI_and_Networks.md), where learning algorithms are studied together with communication constraints, decentralized data access, distributed computation, and cross-silo evaluation.

## Academic context

The Department of Information Engineering was established in 1989 and describes itself as the first and only academic department of its kind in Hong Kong.[^cuhk-ie] Its stated scope includes the generation, transmission, storage, and processing of information in real-world applications. That framing is broader than conventional computer science: it gives institutional room for research that connects machine learning, data systems, communication networks, and trustworthy deployment.

## Connection to Qiao

Qiao's CUHK period begins after a master's phase focused on [data-centric ML](./Data_Centric_Machine_Learning.md) and [machine unlearning](./Machine_Unlearning.md). Under [Angela Yingjun Zhang](./Angela_Yingjun_Zhang.md)'s supervision, the doctoral phase emphasizes data-centric ML, AI for Networks, and Networks for AI: efficient decentralized learning, collaborative evaluation across [data silos](./Data_Silos.md), communication-aware reliability, and distributed methods such as [Wasserstein barycenter](./Distributed_Wasserstein_Barycenter.md) computation. The page is therefore linked from the biography infobox as the sole current affiliation, while past institutions remain under education and research experience.

## See also

- [Xinbao Qiao](./Xinbao_Qiao.md)
- [Angela Yingjun Zhang](./Angela_Yingjun_Zhang.md)
- [AI and Networks](./AI_and_Networks.md)
- [Education](./Education.md)
- [Experience](./Experience.md)
- [Zhejiang University](./Zhejiang_University.md)

[^cuhk-intro]: CUHK's [official university introduction](https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/english/aboutus/university-intro.html) describes the university as founded in 1963 and as a comprehensive research university with a college system, bilingualism, and multiculturalism.

[^cuhk-grad]: The CUHK IE [MPhil-PhD in Information Engineering overview](https://www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/programmes/mphil-phd-in-information-engineering/) describes the programme's research areas and PhD-stream requirements; the CUHK Graduate School also lists [MPhil-PhD in Information Engineering](https://www.gs.cuhk.edu.hk/programmes/engineering) under Engineering.

[^cuhk-ie]: The Department of Information Engineering's [official department page](https://www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/about-the-department/) states that the department was established in 1989 and focuses on information generation, communication, storage, processing, and applications.
