About Us
Mission Statement The Knowledge Representation team at HKUST VisLab transforms human knowledge into computable artifacts, bridging AI with critical professional domains including scientific discovery, advanced manufacturing, medical practices, and social governance.
The Challenge AI's impressive capabilities can degrade in specialized fields. Three fundamental barriers emerge: AI struggles to leverage fine-grained domain knowledge, lacks controllability for high-stakes decisions, and fails to integrate with established workflows. These limitations expose AI's inherent trade-off: breadth and depth cannot be simultaneously maximized.
Current Solution Domain-Specific Representations (DSRs) offer a path forward---formal artifacts that encode specialized knowledge for AI systems. Yet creating effective DSRs demands intensive collaboration between domain experts and computer scientists, making the process labor-intensive, case-specific, and thereby costly.
Our Vision We are pioneering the democratization of DSRs. Through intelligent algorithms that automate the design, deployment, and communication of DSRs, we're building an ecosystem where human knowledge from diverse sources empowers diverse machines---making specialized AI accessible to all.
