Knowledge-integrated Machine Intelligence

KiMI is dedicated to Knowledge-integrated Machine Intelligence, building AI systems that can understand, retrieve, reason, and act across modalities and domains by integrating data-driven learning, domain knowledge, and foundation models.

Our broader goal is to make these systems more reliable, efficient, and impactful for real-world scientific and engineering problems.

Themes

Research Directions

Four converging tracks where the lab invests its long-horizon research effort.

Multimodal Reasoning

Understanding and reasoning across vision, language, and structured knowledge.

  • Vision-Language
  • Structured Knowledge
  • Reasoning Eval

RAG Systems

Multimodal search, retrieval, ranking, and grounded generation over large-scale corpora.

  • Search
  • Ranking
  • Grounding

LLM Agents

Planning, memory, tool use, verification, and multi-agent collaboration for complex problem solving.

  • Planning
  • Tool Use
  • Multi-Agent

AI for X

Knowledge-enhanced foundation models and intelligent systems for biology, materials, and engineering.

  • Biology
  • Materials
  • Engineering
Network

Main Collaborators

Senior researchers with whom the group sustains long-term joint projects and student supervision.

People

Students and Researchers

Current group members, grouped by training stage and listed in order of joining.

Ph.D.

7
Ph.D.

Zhuangfei Hu

since 2024.09

  • Efficient Large Models
Ph.D.

Siyi Liu

since 2025.02

  • Data Synthesis
  • Multimodal Retrieval
Ph.D.

Hengwei Dai

since 2025.02 · part-time

  • GraphRAG
  • LLM for Code
Ph.D.

Yuhang He

since 2025.09

  • Reinforcement Learning
  • LLM Infra
Ph.D.

Xiaotang Wang

since 2025.09

  • Graph Learning
  • AI4Science
Ph.D.

Hange Zhou

since 2025.09

  • Agentic Reasoning
  • Embodied AI
Ph.D.

Haodong Wu

since 2026.02

  • Reasoning RL
  • LLM Agents

MPhil

6
MPhil

Runqing Xu

since 2024.09

  • LLM Agents
  • AI for X
MPhil

Mingkai Qiu

since 2024.09

  • Drug Discovery
MPhil

Hongyu Ge

since 2025.09

  • Reasoning RL
  • Agentic Reasoning
MPhil

Xiaorong Zhu

since 2025.09

  • Multimodal Retrieval
  • Game Agents
MPhil

Boyang Zhao

since 2025.09

  • Embodied Memory
  • Vision-Language Navigation
MPhil

Bairui Zhang

since 2025.09

  • Agentic Reasoning

RA

3
RA

Enjun Du

since 2024.07 · UG in BIT

  • KG Reasoning
  • Multimodal RAG
RA

Yijia Li

2025.09 - 2026.02 · MSc in CUHK-SZ

  • State Space Model
RA

Zirong Chen

since 2025.10 · UG in BIT

  • Multimodal Retrieval