Dr Kai-Fung Chu

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Dr Kai-Fung Chu is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Hong Kong, and the M.Sc. (Distinction) and B.Eng. (First Class Honors) degrees in Electronic and Information Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a Research Fellow of the School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University. He also worked in the industry as an engineer for several years. His research interests include multi-agent systems, mobile robots, autonomous vehicles, and intelligent transportation systems.

News

  • 06/2024, I am organising a new online talk series, Future Intelligence (FI) Talks, designed to spotlight the work of excellent early career researchers in the field of future intelligence. See here for more details.
  • 06/2023, I will be moving to Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge for a new exciting academic journey.
  • 01/2022, I am awarded the Outstanding Young Alumni Award of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering.
  • Publications

    Jounrals

    1. Yang Chen*, Saba Al-Rubaye, Antonios Tsourdos, Kai-Fung Chu, Zhuangkun Wei, Lawrence Baker, and Colin Gillingham, “Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning based Intelligent Surface Configuration in 6G Secure Airport Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
    2. Chenchen Fan, Kai-Fung Chu*, Xiaomei Wang, Ka-Wai Kwok, and Fumiya Iida, “State Transition Learning with Limited Data for Safe Control of Switched Nonlinear Systems,” Neural Networks, doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2024.106695.
    3. Kai-Fung Chu*, Haiyue Yuan, Jinsheng Yuan, Weisi Guo, Nazmiye Ozkan, and Shujun Li, “A Survey of AI-Related Cyber Security Risks and Countermeasures in Mobility-as-a-Service”, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, doi: 10.1109/MITS.2024.3427655.
    4. Mengbang Zou, Weisi Guo*, and Kai-Fung Chu, “Rewiring Complex Networks to Achieve Cluster Synchronization using Graph Convolution Networks with Reinforcement Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2024.3410694.
    5. Kai-Fung Chu* and Weisi Guo, “Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning-based Passenger Spoofing Attack on Mobility-as-a-Service,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2024.3379283.
    6. Kai-Fung Chu* and Weisi Guo, “Privacy-Preserving Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mobility-as-a-Service,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2023.3317358.
    7. Chenchen Fan, James Lam*, Kai-Fung Chu, Xiujuan Lu, and Ka-Wai Kwok*, “Output Reachable Set-based Leader-following Consensus of Positive Agents over Switching Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2023.3286416
    8. Kai-Fung Chu* and Weisi Guo, “Deep Reinforcement Learning of Passenger Behavior in Multimodal Journey Planning with Proportional Fairness,” Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 35, pp. 20221-20240, September 2023, doi: 10.1007/s00521-023-08733-4.
    9. Kai-Fung Chu, Albert Y.S. Lam*, Ka Ho Tsoi, Zhiran Huang, and Becky P.Y. Loo, “Deep Residual Learning for Estimated Time of Arrival,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 76095– 76107, July 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3294345.
    10. Kai-Fung Chu*, Albert Y.S. Lam, and Victor O.K. Li, “Traffic Signal Control Using End-to-End Off-policy Deep Reinforcement Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 7184-7195, July 2022, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3067057.
    11. Kai-Fung Chu*, Albert Y.S. Lam, and Victor O.K. Li, “Joint Rebalancing and Vehicle-to-Grid Coordination for Autonomous Vehicle Public Transportation System,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 7156-7169, July 2022, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3067044.
    12. Kai-Fung Chu, Albert Y.S. Lam*, Chenchen Fan, and Victor O.K. Li, “Disturbance-Aware Neuro-Optimal System Control Using Generative Adversarial Control Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 4565-4576, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2020.3022950.
    13. Kai-Fung Chu*, Albert Y.S. Lam, and Victor O.K. Li, “Deep Multi-Scale Convolutional LSTM Network for Travel Demand and Origin-Destination Predictions,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 3219-3232, August 2020, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2019.2924971.
    14. Kai-Fung Chu*, Albert Y.S. Lam, and Victor O.K. Li, “Dynamic Lane Reversal Routing and Scheduling for Connected Autonomous Vehicles: Formulation and Distributed Algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 2557-2570, June 2020, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2019.2920674.

    Conference Proceedings

    1. Kai-Fung Chu*, Yue Xie, Albert Y.S. Lam, and Fumiya Iida, “Mixed-Autonomy Traffic and Wireless Charging Problem for Autonomous Electric Vehicles Using Reinforcement Learning”, Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Innovative Frontiers in Telecommunications, Hong Kong, China, Dec. 2024.
    2. Xiaoping Zhang*, Xiangpeng Meng, Kai-Fung Chu, and Li Wang, “A Bottom-up Human Pose Estimation Correction Method Based on Object Detection,” Proceedings of the IEEE 13th Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference, Kaifeng, China, May 2024.
    3. Kai-Fung Chu* Chenchen Fan, and Fumiya Iida, “Navigating Mixed Traffic: Current State and Future Challenges in Integrating Autonomous and Human-Driven Vehicles,” Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO), Hong Kong, China, May 2024.
    4. Kai-Fung Chu, Fan Ye*, and Fumiya Iida, “Embodied Intelligence in Transportation Systems: Road Network Computing,” Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Embodied Intelligence, Virtual Conference, 2023.
    5. Kai-Fung Chu* and Weisi Guo, “Passenger Spoofing Attack for Artificial Intelligence-based Mobility-as-a-Service,” Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2023), Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain, September 2023, doi: 10.1109/ITSC57777.2023.10422567.
    6. Kai-Fung Chu* and Weisi Guo, “Federated Reinforcement Learning for Consumers Privacy Protection in Mobility-as-a-Service,” Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2023), Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain, September 2023, doi: 10.1109/ITSC57777.2023.10422279.
    7. Kai-Fung Chu, Tianlun Chen, Albert Y.S. Lam*, and Yue Song, " Collaborative Routing and Charging/Discharging Scheduling of Electric Autonomous Vehicles in Coupled Power-Traffic Networks," Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference, Florence, Italy, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/VTC2023-Spring57618.2023.10199505.
    8. Tianlun Chen, Kai-Fung Chu*, Albert Y.S. Lam, David J. Hill, Victor O.K. Li, "Electric Autonomous Vehicle Charging and Parking Coordination for Vehicle-to-Grid Voltage Regulation with Renewable Energy," Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE PES General Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 2020, doi: 10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281414.
    9. Kai-Fung Chu*, Albert Y.S. Lam, Becky P.Y. Loo, and Victor O.K. Li, “Public Transport Waiting Time Estimation Using Semi-Supervised Graph Convolutional Networks,” Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2019), Auckland, New Zealand, October 2019, doi: 10.1109/ITSC.2019.8917286.
    10. Kai-Fung Chu*, Albert Y.S. Lam, and Victor O.K. Li, “Travel Demand Prediction using Deep Multi-Scale Convolutional LSTM Network,” Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2018), Maui, HI, USA, November 2018, doi: 10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569427.
    11. Kai-Fung Chu*, Albert Y.S. Lam, and Victor O.K. Li, “Dynamic Lane Reversal Routing and Scheduling for Connected Autonomous Vehicles,” Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (IEEE ISC2 2017), Wuxi, China, September 2017, doi: 10.1109/ISC2.2017.8090813.
    12. Kai-Fung Chu, Elmer R Magsino, Ivan Wang-Hei Ho*, and Chi-Kin Chau, "Index Coding of Point Cloud-based Road Map Data for Autonomous Driving," Proceedings of the 85th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC 2017 Spring), Sydney, NSW, June 2017, doi: 10.1109/VTCSpring.2017.8108280.

    Teaching

    University of Cambridge

  • Teaching Assistant and Lab Demonstrator, Integrated Design Project, Fall 2023
  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • Subject Lecturer, Machine Learning and Applications in Finance (COMP5564), Spring 2023
  • The University of Hong Kong

  • Teaching Assistant and Lab Demonstrator, Everyday Computing and the Internet (CCST9003), Summer 2018, Fall 2018, and Fall 2019
  • Teaching Assistant and Lab Demonstrator, Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering (ELEC1203), Fall 2017
  • Professional Services

    Conference and Workshops

  • Co-organizer, 24th Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems, 2023
  • Co-organizer, Special Session on Mobility-as-a-Service: managing cyber security risks for a seamless smart connectivity at IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023
  • Session chair, Smart transportation session at 3rd IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, 2018
  • Co-organizer, International Conference on Smart Mobility and Logistics in Future Cities, 2018
  • Area Editor

  • EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web
  • Reviewer

  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology
  • IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • ITU J-FET on Vehicular networks
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Scientific Reports
  • Travel Behaviour and Society
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2020
  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2018, 2021, 2022
  • Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2023
  • Experience

  • 2022–2023, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • 2022–2022, Research Fellow, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University
  • 2020–2022, Senior Research Engineer, BaseBit Technologies Company Limited
  • 2015–2016, Research Assistant, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • 2013–2016, Project Engineer, Electronic Theater Control Asia Limited
  • 2012–2012, Intern, Office of the Communication Authority, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
  • Awards and Scholarship

  • 2021/22, Outstanding Young Alumni Award of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, PolyU EIE
  • 2017/18, Champion of the IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter - Graduate Student Paper Competition, IEEE (HK)
  • 2018, 2nd runners up of HKUEAA Enginnovate 2018, HKU Engineering Alumni Association
  • 2016-2020, Postgraduate Scholarships, HKU
  • 2016/17, Chiang Chen Overseas Fellowship, Chang Chen Industrial Charity Foundation (Hong Kong) LTD.
  • 2015, MSc Studentship Project Scheme, PolyU
  • 2016, Scholarships for Postgraduate Scheme in Engineering Type II, PolyU
  • 2015 and 2016, Scholarships for Postgraduate Scheme in Engineering Type I, PolyU
  • 2015 and 2016, EIE Alumni Scholarship, PolyU
  • 2012, Chiap Hua Cheng’s Foundation Scholarship, PolyU
  • 2010/11, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013, The Dean’s Honours List, PolyU
  • 2011/2012, Best GPA award, PolyU
  • 2010 Fall, 2011 Fall and 2012 Spring, Best Semester GPA award, PolyU