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Oct 17, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Liu Yang Joins HKU: From Ambient Light Privacy Leaks to Physical AI Imaging

Caltech postdoctoral researcher Liu Yang has joined Hong Kong University as a tenure-track assistant professor, bringing a research portfolio that includes exposing privacy risks in ambient light sensors, encoding vaccine records in microneedle QR codes, and developing a plug-and-play computational imaging toolkit now powered by diffusion models.