Our team

Meet our talented team.
CAFI Research Group is the place where the creative minds meet and innovative ideas got ignited.

The TEAM

The passionate change makers

Prof. MOK Tracy

Team Leader
Tracy is the brain behind all the researches here. She oversees, gives direction and advices to all the researchers. With the vision of bringing digital and technological reformation to the fashion industry, Tracy keeps bringing in inspiring perspectives and turning them into powerful tools and applications for fashion.

Dr. ZHOU Yanghong

Deputy Team Leader, Research Assistant Professor at PolyU

LEE Yanyee, Kathy

Marketing Manager
Kathy mainly works on front-end design for the website and application. She is also responsible for promotion for various projects, including social media content creation and video productions

LI Junting

PhD Student
Junting researches into 3D reconstruction technology.

LIN Jingxiang, Max

Project Assistant
Max is a project contributor. His role entails developing the virtual try-on feature, along with implementing UI functionality and ensuring effective user interaction.

SUN Jie, Jessica

Project Supervisor
Jessica works on the research project Decentralized Intelligent Platform for Made-to-Measure Mass Customization.

TIAN Hao, Henry

PhD Student
Henry focuses on the development of digital fashion. He is currently engaged in the research of virtual try-on.

XIE Ningrong, Lucy

PhD graduate, 2020
Lucy is working on the Intelligent made to measure platform development, Size Recommendation and Auto-grading. She obtained her PhD in Apparel Technology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is working as the Post-Doctoral Fellow. She graduated from the University of Manchester in 2015 with a Master’s degree. She is interested in digital fashion, apparel fit, 3D body scanning and ergonomics.

XIE Qichen, Shane

MPhil student
Shane is working on the project “Using Augmented Reality (AR) to understand users design and preference”.

ZHANG Feng

Technical Consultant
Feng is a dedicated specialist in pose estimation with extensive experience in developing innovative solutions in the field. With a strong background in computer vision and machine learning, he has successfully implemented algorithms that enhance the accuracy and efficiency of pose detection systems.

ZHOU Yangping

Technical Manager
With over 10 years of experience in program development and coding, Yangping is professional in several programming languages, she excels in creating efficient and scalable software solutions. In addition to her coding expertise, Yangping is skilled in server setup and database management, ensuring optimal performance and security for complex systems.

Collaborating designers

The passionate change makers

CHAN Chi

Fashion Designer
Chi assists the curation of the Decentralized Intelligent Platform for Made-to-measure Mass Customization, contributing from a fashion designer’s perspective. She’s also the web designer for the CAFI Research Group.

CHUNG Choiyee , Cherrie

UX Designer
Cherrie works on digital marketing and 3D clothing creation from ideation to implementation, for the projects

KWAN Yeeting, Annie

Media Designer
Annie works on digital marketing tasks including video production and development of advertising and marketing campaigns. She was also responsible for the UI/UX designs for web and mobile application. She had developed user flows and wireframes for AR and fashion platform app.​

LI Fanzhen, Ruby

3D designer
Ruby focuses on fashion illustration, graphic design, and 3D garments creation. She has also involve in the creation and management of social media operations in Mainland China.

NG Laiyi, Lyann

Media Designer
Lyann mainly work on multi-media task including graphic design, video production and CLO 3D digital clothing.

NG Sinying

Sustainability Specialist; MPhil graduate, 2024
Ying focuses on user experience preferences analysis and design for online business of individualised fashion. Her research interest also includes requirement elicitation for fashion online platform and sustainable fashion.

TAM Chungman, Vegas

Media Designer
Vegas majors in digital fashion and works on digital marketing, video production, photography, digital clothing design and graphic design.

ZENG Jinglei, Laura

Fashion Designer
Laura major in fashion and textile design and interested in 3D garment modelling and pattern design.

Interns

The passionate change makers

ZHANG Meng

Intern
ZHANG is responsible for deep learning and ai technology development.

Alumni / Graguates

The passionate change makers

WANG Yongjin

PhD Graduate, 2011. Currently Professor and Dean in Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing, China

HUANG Haiqiao

PhD Graduate, 2012. Professor, also director of research institute, Beijing China

WU Yingying

PhD Graduate, 2012. Associate Professor, Kansas state university, US
Dr. Yingying Wu is an Associate Professor of Fashion Studies at Kansas State University, United States. She earned her M.Phil. degree from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012 under the supervision of Dr. Tracy Mok, followed by a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her research focuses on functional apparel design, as well as the application of machine learning models and large-scale 3D anthropometric data in apparel sizing studies.

Muthu S.S.

PhD graduate, 2012. Entrepreneur, India

XU Jie

PhD Graduate, 2015. Associate Professor in academia, Wuhan, China

ZHU Shuaiyin

PhD Graduate, 2017. Set up startup company in Shenzhen as well as in Hong Kong for technology transfer, CEO, Shenzhen, China
Dr. Zhu is the CEO of Shenzhen TOZ Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. He graduated with an MPhil from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2013 and obtained his PhD from the same university in 2017, both under the supervision of Dr. Tracy Mok. His research focuses and interests include precise three-dimensional human reconstruction, machine learning, data analysis, and other related fields.

LI Runze

PhD Graduate, 2019, further study in Switzerland
Runze worked on virtual clothing fitting by combining 2D pattern design, automated pattern placement on customized human models, and 3D clothing simulation and rendering to create realistic virtual try-ons.

XIE Ningrong, Lucy

PhD graduate, 2020
Lucy is working on the Intelligent made to measure platform development, Size Recommendation and Auto-grading. She obtained her PhD in Apparel Technology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is working as the Post-Doctoral Fellow. She graduated from the University of Manchester in 2015 with a Master’s degree. She is interested in digital fashion, apparel fit, 3D body scanning and ergonomics.

CHEUNG Man

PhD graduate, 2021. Lecturer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

QU Hong, Zoe

PhD Graduate, 2023. Currently Postdoc, Hong Kong Industrial Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (FLAIR), HK
Zoe was focusing on the research project on the Intelligent Systems for Digital Pattern Analysis and Design Support. Her research lied in the areas of Fashion CAD and Machine Learning. She was interested in digital pattern analysis and learning-based design support tasks with minimal annotated data.

QIAO Minhao

MPhil Graduate, 2024, further study in Australia
Minhao worked on the Decentralized Intelligent Platform for Made-to-Measure Mass Customisation.

NG Sinying

Sustainability Specialist; MPhil graduate, 2024
Ying focuses on user experience preferences analysis and design for online business of individualised fashion. Her research interest also includes requirement elicitation for fashion online platform and sustainable fashion.

SUN Zhengwentai

MPhil Graduate, 2024
Zhengwentai focused on Generative Models and Deep Learning technologies.

DING Yueming, Chole

PhD Graduate, 2024
Yueming was a PhD candidate in the the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include computer vision and AI-inspired 3D digital human face reconstruction and their application in fashion industry.

ZHANG Xin, Cindy

PhD Graduate, 2024
Xin focused on the Intelligent Personalized Pattern Making System, Garment Size recommendation and Pattern Grading.

PENG Jihua

PhD Graduate, 2024
Jihua’s research focus is on both Human pose estimation and Deep learning.

CAO Yu, Daniel

PhD Graduate, 2025
Daniel’s research focus is on computer graphics.

HE Honghong, Vicky

PhD Graduate, 2025
Vicky focused on Fashion Landmarks Detection, GAN Models, Deep Learning related researches.

LIAO Shuiying

PhD Graduate, 2025
Shuiying focuses on the Recommender Systems in Fashion.

Former team member

The passionate change makers

CHEN Hongxu

Intern (Feb-Aug 2024)
CHEN is responsible for front-end, back-end and deep learning technology’s development.

CHEN Xuanchang, Leonard

Project Assistant
Leonard is currently working on a smart fashion retailing platform based on cloud system along with the application of blockchain in fashion retailing

DING Yujuan

Research personnel
Yujuan worked on research projects relevant to fashion outfit composition and recommedation

GONG Hongying, Ellen

Project assistant
Ellen worked on marketing and promotion related tasks for the group.

GONG Qijian

Intern (Feb-Aug 2024)
GONG is mainly responsible for 3D model and AR/VR technology development.

LEUNG Mingki

Project assistant
Ming was responsible for the front-end design of the online shopping platform (Website and APPs) for one of the research projects.​

LI Ze

Research assistant
Ze was a research assistant at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research focuses on human pose estimation.

LIAO Yang

Research assistant
Aaron is a project contributor.He focuses on implementing UI functionality.He is now responsible for the completion and release of Android projects which use techniques of our team

TANG Chinpang, Alan

Research personnel
Alan was responsible for developing applications and web.

TSOI Yiuchik

Intern (Jun-Sep 2023, July-Oct 2024)
TSOI is responsible for front-end design.

WANG Chen

Research personnel
Chen’s research interests include pattern recognition and machine learning.

WANG Shiya

Research personnel
Shiya was responsible for administration, human resource and recruitment for the group. She also assisted with UI/UX designs for web and mobile application and video editing.

WANG Zhida, Jeremy

Project Assistant
Jeremy focuses on fashion landmark detection and classification

WANG Zuoxiang

Project Assistant
Zuoxiang specialised in API development as well as front-end logic implementation.

WONG Chunming, Jayman

Research personnel
Jayman was responsible for backend development. He was also familiarised with the WordPress development.

WU Shangrong

Project assistant
Shangrong worked on front end, backend development and deep learning.

ZHANG Limeng

Intern (Feb-Aug 2024)
ZHANG is responsible for back-end and 3D technology development.

ZHANG Wenda

Research Personnel
Wenda worked on the research project Decentralized Intelligent Platform for Made-to-Measure Mass Customisation. She was responsible for designing and implementing blockchain and distributed system on fashion industry. Her research interests focus on the intersection of cryptography, blockchain and fashion applications.

ZHANG Yun

Intern (Feb-Aug 2024)
ZHANG is responsible for back-end development and database design.

YANG Ziyi

Intern (Feb-Aug 2024)
YANG is responsible for front-end design and back-end system development.