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Updates from the group, including publications, people and research activities.

September 2026

Chenyu Wu and Zemin Xu join the group

We welcome Chenyu Wu and Zemin Xu as Research Assistants at City University of Hong Kong. Chenyu works on reactive interatomic potentials and data generation, while Zemin develops equivariant models and the TACE framework.

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September 2026

Updated preprint on parity-complete local O(2) learning

Our updated preprint, “Through the Looking-Glass: Efficient Parity-Complete Learning via Local O(2) Frames,” presents a framework for treating rotations, reflections and time reversal in equivariant atomistic models.

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July 2026

Wenbo Xie joins City University of Hong Kong

Wenbo Xie joins the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as an Assistant Professor. The group will develop data-centric methods, machine-learning interatomic potentials and predictive approaches to materials simulation.

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2026

Cartesian-3j framework published at ICML 2026

“A Cartesian-3j Framework for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials” is published in the proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning.

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