We are delighted to announce that Prof. Guoliang Xing, Prof. Hongkai Chen, and their interdisciplinary team have won the Best Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications (BIGCOM 2025).

The paper “OpenTCM: A GraphRAG-Empowered LLM-based System for Traditional Chinese Medicine Knowledge Retrieval and Diagnosis,” co-authored by Jinglin He, Yunqi Guo, Lai Kwan Lam, Waikei Leung, Lixing He, Yuanan Jiang, Chi Chiu Wang, Guoliang Xing, and Hongkai Chen, represents a collaborative effort across CUHK’s School of Chinese Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Department of Information Engineering. This recognition highlights their innovative use of large language models and graph-based retrieval techniques to advance Traditional Chinese Medicine research and diagnosis.

Congratulations to all team members for this prestigious achievement.

Notes:

• Prof. Chi Chiu Wang and Dr. Lai Kwan Lam are with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, CUHK
• Prof. Yuanan Jiang and Ms Waikei Leungare with the School of Chinese Medicine, CUHK
• Jinglin He, Yunqi Guo, and Lixing He are with the Department of Information Engineering, CUHK