Colloquia / Seminars / Industry Talks


2019 Series

Guiding Rational Vaccine Design using Data Analytics and Machine Learning
Speaker Dr. Ahmed Abdul Quadeer
(Post-doctoral Fellow, Signal Processing and Computational Biology Research Group, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 5, 2019 (Tue) 2:45 - 3:45 pm
OEM609, Oen Hall Building (Main Building), Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Towards Trustable AI for Complex Systems -- a Life Science and AIOps Perspective
Speaker Dr. Xian Yang
(Research Fellow, Data Science Institute, Imperial College London, UK)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 5, 2019 (Tue) 1:30 - 2:30 pm
OEM609, Oen Hall Building (Main Building), Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Learning Deep Neural Networks from Limited Data
Speaker Prof. Tatsuya Harada
(Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 18, 2019 (Fri) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Exploring the fragmentation of the representation of data-driven journalism in the digital public sphere: A network analytics approach
Speaker Dr. Xinzhi Zhang
(Research Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Date Time
& Venue
Sep 6, 2019 (Fri) 3:15 - 4:15 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University

Data Engineering in Mobile Sensing and Blockchain
Speaker Dr. Zhe Peng
(Researcher, Big Data and Blockchain R&D Center, SF Technology, Shenzhen)
Date Time
& Venue
Sep 6, 2019 (Fri) 2:00 - 3:00 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University

On Optimizing Inference in Probabilistic Graphical Models
Speaker Prof. Cory J. Butz
(Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Science, University of Regina, Canada)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 7, 2019 (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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Looking Beyond the Camera Aperture: Learning from the Field of Light
Speaker Dr. Jie Chen
(Senior Algorithm Engineer, OmniVision Technologies, Inc.)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 16, 2019 (Tue) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos

Declarative Programming in Software-defined Networks: Past. Present, and the Road Ahead
Speaker Prof. Boon Thau Loo
(Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 15, 2019 (Mon) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Towards Transdisciplinary Research
Speaker Dr. Ki Joon Kim
(Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 25, 2019 (Tue) 3:00 - 4:00 pm
AAB503, Academic and Administration Building, Baptist University Road Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Stochastic Optimization with Queries
Speaker Dr. Takanori Maehara
(Unit Leader, Discrete Optimization Unit, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Japan)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 24, 2019 (Mon) 10:30 - 11:30 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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A Memetic Algorithm for Symbolic Regression
Speaker Prof. Pablo Moscato
(Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 18, 2019 (Tue) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides  References

AI+Financial Services
Speaker Dr. Xiao Jing
(Group Chief Scientist, Ping An Insurance (Group) Company, China)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 17, 2019 (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

Green IoT and Data Analytics for Smart Cities
Speaker Dr. Edith Ngai
(Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden)
Date Time
& Venue
May 30, 2019 (Thu) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Modeling the Dynamics of a Waste Deposit
Speaker Prof. Stanislav Barton
(Professor , Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Opole University of Technology, Poland)
Date Time
& Venue
May 21, 2019 (Tue) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos

Efficient Maximal Clique Computation over Large Sparse Graphs
Speaker Dr. Lijun Chang
(Senior Lecturer and Future Fellow, School of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia)
Date Time
& Venue
May 15, 2019 (Wed) 5:00 - 6:00 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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From Answering Questions to Questioning Answers
Speaker Prof. Jun Yang
(Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
May 8, 2019 (Wed) 10:00 - 11:00 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Efficient Supervision Schemes for Object Detection, Segmentation, and 3D Reconstruction
Speaker Prof. Vittorio Ferrari
(Research Scientist, Research Group on Visual Learning, Google, Zurich)
Date Time
& Venue
Apr 17, 2019 (Wed) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Statistical Learning for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data
Speaker Dr. Guanhua Chen
(Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Date Time
& Venue
Apr 2, 2019 (Tue) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Markov Decision Processes: Robustness and Modern Applications
Speaker Dr. Clint Chin Pang Ho
(Research Fellow, Imperial College Business School, UK)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 6, 2019 (Wed) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

CPChain (Cyber-Physical Chain): Decentralized Internet of Things with Blockchain Technology
Speaker Prof. Chengnian Long
(Professor, Department of Automation, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 30, 2019 (Wed) 10:30 - 11:30 am
FSC703, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos

Relevance Ranking for Search Engines
Speaker Prof. Yi Chang
(Dean, School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, China)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 29, 2019 (Tue) 10:30 - 11:30 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Face Morph Detection using PRNU
Speaker Prof. Andreas Uhl
(Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 25, 2019 (Fri) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
RRS638, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Photos  Slides

Biometric Technologies for Forensic Science
Speaker Prof. Massimo Tistarelli
(Professor, Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Sassari, Italy)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 11, 2019 (Fri) 10:30 - 11:30 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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On-device Crowdsourcing and Bytecode Search for Advancing Android App Analysis
Speaker Mr. Daoyuan Wu
(School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 8, 2019 (Tue) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
FSC703, Fong Shu Chuen Library, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Analyzing Semantic Correctness of Protocol Implementations with Symbolic Execution
Speaker Mr. Sze Yiu Chau
(Department of Computer Science, Purdue University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 2, 2019 (Wed) 10:00 - 11:00 am
SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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