Colloquia / Seminars / Industry Talks


2018 Series

Towards Robust Deep Learning
Speaker Mr. Bo Han
(Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN)
Date Time
& Venue
Dec 20, 2018 (Thu) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Ranking based Hashing for Biometric Template Protection and Cryptosystems
Speaker Prof. Andrew Teoh
(Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea)
Date Time
& Venue
Dec 14, 2018 (Fri) 10:30 - 11:30 am
LT1 (SCT501), Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Towards Human-Centric AI
Speaker Dr. Hongyuan Zhu
(Research Scientist
Principle Investigator, Agency of Science and Technology Research (ASTAR), Singapore)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 23, 2018 (Fri) 10:30 - 11:30 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos

Computational Intelligence for Brain-Computer Interface: Applications and Challenges
Speaker Dr. Zehong Cao
(Research Fellow, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 16, 2018 (Fri) 10:30 - 11:30 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Image Quality Assessment: Facing the Real-World Challenges
Speaker Dr. Kede Ma
(Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory for Computational Vision, New York University, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 7, 2018 (Wed) 10:30 - 11:30 am
FSC703, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

E-Sports, Development and New Technology in Game Industry
Speaker Mr. Xiang HUANG
(Chief Technology Officer (CTO), GALA Sports)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 11, 2018 (Thu) 3:30 - 5:00 pm
LT1 (SCT501), Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Poster

AI Powered FinTech at WeBank
Speaker Dr. Vincent W. Zheng
(Associate Deputy General Manager, WeBank AI Department, China)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 9, 2018 (Tue) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos

Memory Research in an Era of Big Data
Speaker Prof. Tak Pan Wong
(Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 2, 2018 (Tue) 10:30 - 11:30 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Bayesian Network Classifiers
Speaker Prof. Wray Buntine
(Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia)
Date Time
& Venue
Sep 20, 2018 (Thu) 10:30 - 11:30 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Big Data Analytics in Biomedical Informatics
Speaker Prof. Hesham H. Ali
(Director of UNO Bioinformatics Core Facility, College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 31, 2018 (Tue) 2:00 - 3:00 pm
iCafé Activities Room (next to Pacific Coffee), 3/F, Wing Lung Bank Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos

Differential Privacy: Potential and Limitations
Speaker Prof. Ninghui Li
(Professor, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 26, 2018 (Thu) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Class Imbalance Learning - Problem, Modelling and Challenges
Speaker Prof. Yiu Ming Cheung
(Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 26, 2018 (Thu) 10:30 - 11:30 am
FSC901C&D, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University

Personality-based Recommender Systems
Speaker Dr. Li Chen
(Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 16, 2018 (Mon) 10:30 - 11:30 am
FSC901C&D, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University

Reflections and Outlook on AI
Speaker Prof. Jiming Liu
(Associate Vice-President (Research) and Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 13, 2018 (Fri) 10:30 - 11:30 am
FSC901C&D, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University

Interpretable and Federated Tensor Factorization for Computational Phenotyping
Speaker Dr. Yejin Kim
(Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth), USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 20, 2018 (Wed) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

My Career on Open Source
Speaker Mr. Hsiaoming Yang
(Creator of Typlog and Authlib, Core maintainer of Flask and Werkzeug, Member of the Pallets projects)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 4, 2018 (Mon) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Game Production: from Idea to Design, from Implementation to Practice
Speaker Mr. Sam Chung
(Lead Game Designer and Producer)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 4, 2018 (Mon) 10:00 - 11:00 am
RRS905, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Data Management in the AI World: An Area Whose Time Has Come and Gone?
Speaker Prof. Sourav S Bhowmick
(Head of Data Management Research Group (DANTE), School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Date Time
& Venue
May 23, 2018 (Wed) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Activity Recognition and Behaviour Analysis within Smart Homes
Speaker Prof. Liming Chen
(Professor of Computer Science
Head of the Context, Intelligence and Interaction Research Group and its associated Smart Lab, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, UK)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 22, 2018 (Thu) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Face Presentation Attack Detection aka Anti-Spoofing
Speaker Prof. Sébastien Marcel
(Head of Biometrics Security and Privacy group
Director of the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing
Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 5, 2018 (Mon) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
WLB109, Wing Lung Bank Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Emotion Analysis in Natural Language
Speaker Prof. Pearl Pu
(Head of HCI Group, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 22, 2018 (Mon) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
iCafé Activities Room (next to Pacific Coffee), 3/F, Wing Lung Bank Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Toward Practical Object Trackers: From Feature Combination to Modality Fusion
Speaker Dr. Xiangyuan Lan
(Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong Baptist University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 16, 2018 (Tue) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

From Dream to Reality: A Success Story of a Young Engineer coming from HK
Speaker Mr. Clement Pang
(Chief Architect and Software Engineer in Sunnyvale, California, Co-founder of Wavefront (which was recently acquired by VMware))
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 5, 2018 (Fri) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides


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