Colloquia / Seminars / Industry Talks


2015 Series

Selected Topics in Online Social Network Analysis
Speaker Prof. Keishi Tajima
(Professor, School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
Date Time
& Venue
Dec 10, 2015 (Thu) 1:30 - 2:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos

In-Memory Database Systems on Emerging Hardware: My Ten Years’ Journey
Speaker Dr. Bingsheng He
(Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Date Time
& Venue
Dec 9, 2015 (Wed) 10:30 - 11:30 am
SCT716, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Random Projections as Regularizers: Learning a Linear Discriminant from Fewer Observations than Dimensions
Speaker Dr. Bob Durrant
(Senior Lecturer, University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 20, 2015 (Fri) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT716, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

On the Curses and Blessings of High Dimensionality in Data Mining
Speaker Dr. Ata Kaban
(Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 19, 2015 (Thu) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
CEC803, Christian Education Centre, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Recommendation Services for Location-Based Social Networks
Speaker Dr. Wang-Chien Lee
(Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 20, 2015 (Tue) 3:30 - 4:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Cryptographic Access Control in Clouds
Speaker Dr. Sushmita Ruj
(Assistant Professor , Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 16, 2015 (Fri) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Overcoming the Scalability Challenge in Problems Associated with Network Performance Evaluation and Optimization
Speaker Prof. Moshe Zukerman
(Chair Professor of Information Engineering, City University of Hong Kong)
Date Time
& Venue
Sep 4, 2015 (Fri) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Taming Subgraph Isomorphism for RDF Query Processing
Speaker Prof. Wook-Shin Han
(Associate Professor, Department of Creative IT Engineering/Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 7, 2015 (Fri) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Similarity-Based IPR and e-Forensics ---Modeling and Simulation in HC Interactive Learning Environment
Speaker Prof. Patrick S.P. Wang
(Professor of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 3, 2015 (Mon) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Virtual Machine Auctions in Cloud Computing
Speaker Dr. Zongpeng Li
(Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 24, 2015 (Fri) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Approximate High-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Queries Using R-Forests (and other informatics research @ Baylor)
Speaker Dr. King-Ip David Lin
(Associate Professor, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 16, 2015 (Thu) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
LT1 (SCT501), Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Manifold Alignment and Deep Learning for Vision Applications
Speaker Dr. Hong Chang
(Associate Researcher, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 14, 2015 (Tue) 10:30 - 11:30 am
LT1 (SCT501), Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Graph Sampling Algorithms and Their Applications in Online Social Network Analysis
Speaker Prof. Jianguo Lu
(Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Canada)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 24, 2015 (Wed) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
SCT501, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Exploring New Coding Theories for Data Storage: Language Processing and Nonvolatile Memories
Speaker Prof. Anxiao Jiang
(Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 12, 2015 (Fri) 10:30 - 11:30 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Low-rank Matrix Modeling: Theory, Computation, and Applications in Image Analysis
Speaker Dr. Jianfeng Cai
(Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
May 27, 2015 (Wed) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Research Publication Adjusted Democratically and Economically
Speaker Dr. Milos Stojmenovic
(Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Singidunum University, Serbia)
Date Time
& Venue
May 21, 2015 (Thu) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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The World is Moving to Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker Prof. Weidong Kou
(IBM AP & GCG Chief Architect and Cloud Executive
for Global Alliances and Computer Services Industry, Visiting Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 27, 2015 (Fri) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

How to Improve Measuring of the Hardness of NP-hard Optimization Problems
Speaker Prof. Juraj Hromkovic
(Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 16, 2015 (Mon) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
WLB210, Wing Lung Bank Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos

On the Power of Randomization in the Design of Efficient Algorithms
Speaker Prof. Juraj Hromkovic
(Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 13, 2015 (Fri) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos

Real-Time Tracking of Mobile RFID Tags to Millimeter-Level Accuracy Using COTS
Speaker Prof. Xiang-Yang Li
(Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 12, 2015 (Thu) 10:00 - 11:00 am
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Deep Models for Face Alignment and Pose Normalization with “small” Data
Speaker Prof. Shiguang Shan
(Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 26, 2015 (Thu) 2:00 - 3:00 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides


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