Colloquia / Seminars / Industry Talks


2017 Series

User Novelty Driven Personalized Item Recommendation
Speaker Dr. Jun Chen
(Senior Software Engineer, AI Group, Baidu Inc., China)
Date Time
& Venue
Dec 1, 2017 (Fri) 10:30 - 11:30 am
FSC703, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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An Overview of NLP and Deep Learning for Healthcare Applications
Speaker Prof. Massimo Piccardi
(Professor, School of Electrical and Data Engineering, FEIT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 23, 2017 (Mon) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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From Community Detection to Community Search
Speaker Dr. Xin Huang
(Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 11, 2017 (Wed) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Data Mining for Privacy Protection, Authorship Analysis, and Malware Analysis
Speaker Dr. Benjamin C. M. Fung
(Canada Research Chair & Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, McGill University, Canada)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 9, 2017 (Mon) 3:30 - 4:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Children's Privacy Protection Engine for Smart Anthropomorphic Toys
Speaker Prof. Patrick C. K. Hung
(Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 3, 2017 (Tue) 10:30 - 11:30 am
FSC703, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Model-free Algorithms for Influence Estimation and Influence Maximization
Speaker Prof. Bogdan CAUTIS
(Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay)
Date Time
& Venue
Sep 27, 2017 (Wed) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Large Scale Non-linear Classification and its Applications in Complex Biomedical Data
Speaker Dr. Liang Lan
(Advisory Researcher, Lenovo Machine Intelligence Lab, Hong Kong)
Date Time
& Venue
Sep 12, 2017 (Tue) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Towards Big Graph Search: Challenges and Techniques
Speaker Prof. Shuai Ma
(Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 21, 2017 (Mon) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Slides

From Influence to Revenue: Incentivized Social Advertising
Speaker Prof. Laks V.S. Lakshmanan
(Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 16, 2017 (Wed) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Computing Challenges in Big Data and Internet of Things
Speaker Prof. Lalit Mohan Patnaik
(Honorary Professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 10, 2017 (Mon) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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From Big Data to Big Knowledge: Knowledge Engineering with Big Data
Speaker Prof. Xindong Wu
(School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA )
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 30, 2017 (Fri) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Machine Learning in Medical Image Analysis
Speaker Dr. Yixuan YUAN
(Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 23, 2017 (Fri) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Nature-Inspired Meta-heuristic Algorithms for Generating Optimal Experimental Designs
Speaker Prof. Weng Kee Wong
(Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of California Los Angeles)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 13, 2017 (Tue) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Spatial and Textual Data Management
Speaker Dr. Xin Cao
(Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales, Australia)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 12, 2017 (Mon) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
FSC703, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Analyze Microbial Communities to Aid Health and Ecology Studies Using Next-generation Sequencing Data
Speaker Dr. Yanni Sun
(Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University US)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 8, 2017 (Thu) 5:00 - 6:00 pm
FSC703, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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On Regularized HSS Iteration Method for Saddle-Point Linear Systems
Speaker Prof. Zhong-Zhi Bai
(Engineering Computing, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Date Time
& Venue
May 17, 2017 (Wed) 5:00 - 6:00 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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A Self-Organizing Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm
Speaker Prof. Aimin Zhou
(Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University)
Date Time
& Venue
Apr 6, 2017 (Thu) 3:30 - 4:30 pm
WLB207, Lam Woo International Conference Centre, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Uphill Battles in Natural Language Processing
Speaker Dr. Vincent Ng
(Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Texas, Dallas)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 13, 2017 (Mon) 3:30 - 4:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Personalized Trajectory Matching in Spatial Networks [VLDB J. 2014]
Speaker Dr. Shuo Shang
(Research Scientist, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 3, 2017 (Fri) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Slides

Dealing with an Increasing Number of Objectives in Optimization
Speaker Prof. Xin Yao
(Chair Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 27, 2017 (Mon) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
FSC901E, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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EC at Work: Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker Dr. Kay Chen Tan
(Associate Professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 13, 2017 (Mon) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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The Power of Data Science: A Case Study on Data-Driven Growth
Speaker Dr. Rui Chen
(Head of Samsung Pay Data Analytics, Samsung Research America)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 10, 2017 (Fri) 10:30 - 11:30 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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