Prof. QU Huamin’s Team Secured IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award

Prof. Qu Huamin (second left), PhD student and co-first author Shi Yuzhe (second right), and MPhil graduate Li Yanjia (first left), all from HKUST’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, together with Prof. Ruan Lecheng (first right) of Peking University, corresponding author of the paper. [Download Photo]

Prof. QU Huamin, Dean of the Academy of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), and his team won the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award for their paper titled “Automated Constraint Specification for Job Scheduling by Regulating Generative Model With Domain-Specific Representation”. The honor marks the first time this highly competitive award has been received by researchers from HKUST or any institution in the Hong Kong SAR.

Established in 2004, the award recognizes the best paper of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) published in the previous calendar year. It typically honors only one paper from more than 1,200 peer-reviewed articles.

The study focuses on smart manufacturing scheduling driven by generative AI. It presents a constraint-centric architecture that regulates Large Language Models to perform reliable automated constraint specification for production scheduling. The paper was authored by CSE PhD student SHI Yuzhe (co-first author), CSE MPhil graduate LI Yanjia (currently a PhD student in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics at HKUST), and collaborators from Peking University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

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