AI that meets
the real world.

Hao Chen · Assistant Professor (Research)
City University of Macau

I study embodied AI, large language models, and graph-based recommendation at the Faculty of Data Science.

Virtual worlds · UnrealZooLanguage & structure · SGU-SQL

Selected work

From virtual worlds to structured reasoning.

Photo-realistic virtual worlds and diverse controllable entities for embodied visual navigation and tracking.

Co-author · ICCV 2025

Structure-guided prompting connects natural-language questions with database schemas to generate SQL queries.

Co-author · ICML 2025

UnrealZoo Figure 1: virtual scenes, playable entities and embodied AI tasks
UnrealZoo · Virtual worlds for embodied AI
SGU-SQL Figure 1: dual graph encoding and syntax-based decomposition
SGU-SQL · Structure-guided language models

UnrealZoo ICCV 2025

UnrealZoo system architecture (Figure 4)

UnrealZoo: Enriching Photo-realistic Virtual Worlds for Embodied AI

Fangwei Zhong, Kui Wu, Churan Wang, Hao Chen, Hai Ci, Zhoujun Li, Yizhou Wang
ICCV 2025

SGU-SQL ICML 2025

SGU-SQL framework (Figure 1)

Structure-Guided Large Language Models for Text-to-SQL Generation

Qinggang Zhang, Hao Chen, Junnan Dong, Shengyuan Chen, Feiran Huang, Xiao Huang
ICML 2025 · PMLR 267

MacGNN WWW 2024

MacGNN model architecture (Figure 3)

Macro Graph Neural Networks for Online Billion-Scale Recommender Systems

Hao Chen, Yuanchen Bei, Qijie Shen, Yue Xu, Sheng Zhou, Wenbing Huang, Feiran Huang, Senzhang Wang, Xiao Huang
The ACM Web Conference (WWW) 2024

KnowGPT NeurIPS 2024

KnowGPT framework (Figure 2)

KnowGPT: Knowledge Graph based Prompting for Large Language Models

Qinggang Zhang, Junnan Dong, Hao Chen, Daochen Zha, Zailiang Yu, Xiao Huang
NeurIPS 2024

Let's connect.

City University of Macau
Faculty of Data Science

haochen@cityu.edu.mo