Corvinus launches joint research with one of Asia’s leading universities to improve the trustworthiness of artificial intelligen
On the Corvinus side, the project is led by Professor Péter Baranyi and seeks to enhance the reliability of AI architectures so they can better adapt to real-world applications. The partner institution, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, is ranked 32nd in the world in the QS higher education rankings. The research is supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office of Hungary under the HU-rizont programme.
The agreement was signed on 11 March in Hong Kong, in the CPII building, by Professor Péter Baranyi on behalf of Corvinus and Professor Helen Meng Mei-ling, Director of the Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII), on behalf of CUHK. Other members of the Hungarian delegation attending the signing ceremony included Tamás Bartus, Vice-Rector for Research at Corvinus; Zoltán Oszkár Szántó, Head of the Corvinus CIAS research centre; Nikolett Deutsch, Head of the Corvinus Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Éva Pintér, Associate Professor in the Department of Innovation and Business Incubation; and János Csák, Honorary Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, adviser to the university’s CIAS research institute, and former Hungarian Minister for Culture and Innovation.
Professor Sham Mai-har, CPII Board Chairperson, described the signing as a momentous occasion for a landmark bilateral project that serves as a significant bridge between the innovation hubs of Hungary and Hong Kong. She expressed confidence that this partnership will yield transformative insights and innovations benefiting both local communities and the broader global ecosystem. As the project officially commences, Professor Sham added, both institutions are embarking on a collaborative journey to define a new paradigm in AI transformation.
Professor Helen Meng Mei-ling, Director of CPII, highlighted that while AI has made significant strides, its lack of interpretability and predictability often limits its trustworthiness in critical fields. She explained that this collaboration aims to address these challenges directly by using linguistics-based studies to validate a novel machine learning algorithm. The project seeks to create AI architectures that are more precise, explainable and provable, setting new global standards for the safe and reliable use of AI in practical applications.
Professor Péter Baranyi, Head of the Cognitive Info-communications Research Center at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies, CUB, said that it was a great honour to participate in the ceremony, which celebrated a collaboration that has flourished between key members of the two institutions for 30 years, both as colleagues and as friends. He noted that by introducing this new AI paradigm, the teams are moving beyond simple data approximation to deep understanding of how AI represents information. He further emphasised that this collaboration is critical to ensuring that future AI systems are not just good learners but are also provably stable, transparent and trustworthy.
Corvinus’s research partner, the InnoHK Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII), was established by The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020. Its research covers computer vision, multilingual speech and language technologies, natural language processing, and AI-based design automation.
Corvinus has been steadily strengthening its professional ties with CUHK. In May 2025, the two institutions entered into a strategic partnership; in autumn 2024 and 2025, they organised an international conference entitled AI Transformation; and in spring 2024, they signed a research cooperation agreement called the Academic and Innovation Matrix (AIM).