Projects

Research projects with direct public and technical application

Work spanning data science, natural language processing, multimodal analysis, assistive systems, and digital health platforms.

Active

Current portfolio

Active
Current work

Chinese Fashion Aesthetics: Current Landscape, Trends, and Changes

This study examines the dynamics of Chinese fashion aesthetics through social media analysis using multimodal data, and explores how fashion trends are represented, communicated, and diffused online.

NLPSocial MediaText Mining

Funding

Funding welcome

Team

Bo Zhao / Principal Investigator

Zhengrui Li / Individual Researcher

Output

In development

Planned
Current work

Chronic Disease Healthcare Platform

An intelligent platform integrating multimodal data to predict chronic disease flare-ups and recommend personalised behavioural changes, and will evolve into a digital twin powered by federated learning for privacy-preserving, adaptive healthcare.

HealthcareDigital TwinPrecision Medicine

Funding

Funding welcome

Team

Open collaboration

Output

In development

PlannedXJTLU SURF
Summer 2026

Public Narratives on Japan’s Constitutional Revision

A SURF summer project analysing how public narratives around Japan’s constitutional revision discussions evolve across platforms, languages, and cultural contexts using multilingual social media data, topic modelling, sentiment and stance analysis, temporal comparison, and network visualisation.

XJTLU SURFSocial MediaMultilingual NLPComputational Social Science

Funding

N/A

Team

Recruiting

Output

In development

Active
Current work

Assistant for Visually Impaired

An assistive algorithm for visually impaired users that combines multi-camera vision to enhance spatial perception and object awareness and integrating vLLM for contextual understanding and optional LiDAR input for enhanced depth sensing, aiming to deliver robust, real-time assistance to improve user independence and environmental interaction.

Text MiningOpen SourceNLP

Funding

Funding welcome

Team

Bo Zhao / Principal Investigator

Xu Ji / FYP Student

Output

In development

Collaboration

Open to new research partnerships

I am interested in research opportunities, student projects, and industry collaboration in data science and NLP.