Applied research projects and student-led systems.

Current work spans NLP, multimodal analysis, assistive systems, digital health, and computational social science.

4 tracked projects2 active now

Current portfolio

ActiveCurrent workFunding welcome

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
TeamBo Zhao / Principal Investigator; Zhengrui Li / Individual Researcher
PlannedCurrent workFunding welcome

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
TeamOpen collaboration
PlannedSummer 2026N/A

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
TeamRecruiting
ActiveCurrent workFunding welcome

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
TeamBo Zhao / Principal Investigator; Xu Ji / FYP Student