PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Chi-Wing Fu

Also known as Chi Wing Fu, Philip Chi-Wing Fu

Chi-Wing Fu is a researcher whose AI work applies deep learning to 3D shapes. He earned a computer science Ph.D. at Indiana University in 2003 and joined HKUST's Image, Vision and Graphics Group in 2004. He coauthored work on 3D burr puzzles in 2011 and interlocking furniture in 2015 and 2017; PU-Net upsampled point clouds in 2018, while SP-GAN generated and manipulated them in 2021. As of October 2026, he is a professor and Vice-Chairman (Undergraduate) in CUHK's Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Editor-in-Chief for regular submissions at IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

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Timeline

  1. 2003–2004

    PhD and HKUST move

    His earlier degrees include a B.Sc. and M.Phil. in computer science and engineering from CUHK. In 2003, he earns a Ph.D. in computer science from Indiana University, Bloomington. After graduation, he joins Silicon Graphics and contributes to the Beijing Planetarium digital planetarium project; in 2004, he joins HKUST's Department of Computer Science and works in the Image, Vision and Graphics Group.

  2. 2011

    Making burr puzzles

    At SIGGRAPH in 2011, he coauthors “Making burr puzzles from 3D models,” a method for designing and assembling interlocking 3D puzzles with a single-key property.

  3. 2015

    Interlocking furniture assembly

    In 2015, he coauthors “Computational Interlocking Furniture Assembly,” which locks groups of parts through local keys and dependencies to create globally interlocking furniture assemblies.

  4. 2017

    Reconfigurable furniture

    At SIGGRAPH Asia in 2017, he coauthors “Reconfigurable Interlocking Furniture,” a method for making furniture from parts that can be assembled into different forms.

  5. 2018

    PU-Net point cloud upsampling

    At CVPR in 2018, he coauthors PU-Net, a deep-network method for upsampling point clouds by learning multilevel features and expanding point sets through multibranch convolutions.

  6. 2021

    SP-GAN shape generation

    In 2021, he coauthors SP-GAN, an unsupervised sphere-guided model that generates 3D shapes as point clouds and supports part-aware generation and manipulation without part annotations.

  7. 2023

    Chairing the Test of Time committee

    In 2023, he chairs the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Test of Time Award committee.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and journal editor

    At CUHK, he is a professor and Vice-Chairman (Undergraduate) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He also serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief for regular submissions at IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

Career

  1. NowChinese University of Hong KongProfessor
  2. From 2004Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  3. 2003–2004Silicon Graphics

Education

  1. Chinese University of Hong KongB.Sc.
  2. Indiana University BloomingtonPh.D.

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes Chinese University of Hong Kong. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.
  3. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes Chinese University of Hong Kong. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Chinese University of Hong Kong. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Visualizing the Very Large-Scale Physical Universe cse.hkust.edu.hk. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. FU Chi Wing – CUHK CSE cse.cuhk.edu.hk. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Making burr puzzles from 3D models cse.cuhk.edu.hk. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. Computational Interlocking Furniture Assembly cse.cuhk.edu.hk. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Reconfigurable Interlocking Furniture cse.cuhk.edu.hk. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. PU-Net: Point Cloud Upsampling Network yulequan.github.io. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. SP-GAN: Sphere-Guided 3D Shape Generation and Manipulation arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) Awards computer.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  9. Chi Wing FU - The Chinese University of Hong Kong research.cuhk.edu.hk. Checked 22 October 2026.