Distinguished Lectures


2023 Series

The Impact of ChatGPT on Artificial Intelligence Research and Social Development
Speaker Prof. Chengqi Zhang
(Pro Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor, University of Technology Sydney)
Date Time
& Venue
Sep 4, 2023 (Mon) 10:00 - 11:00 am
SWT 501, Shaw Tower, Shaw Campus, HKBU
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Cardinality Estimation of Approximate Substring Queries using Deep Learning
Speaker Prof. Kyuseok Shim
(Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 18, 2023 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Siu Lun Lecture Theatre (WLB 205), The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU / Online via Zoom
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Towards Production Federated Learning Systems
Speaker Prof. Baochun Li
(Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 5, 2023 (Mon) 10:00 - 11:00 am
Cheung Ching Lan Diana Memorial Lecture Theatre (WLB 204), The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU / Online via Zoom
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Bioinformatics Challenges in Complete Genomics and Metagenomics
Speaker Prof. Pavel Pevzner
(Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 1, 2023 (Thu) 10:00 - 11:00 am
Cheung Ching Lan Diana Memorial Lecture Theatre (WLB 204), The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU / Online via Zoom
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Improving Object Detection from Repeated Traversals of the Same Route
Speaker Prof. Kilian Weinberger
(Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University)
Date Time
& Venue
May 19, 2023 (Fri) 9:30 - 10:30 am
Zoom
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Unleashing the Power of Mobile Edge-Cloud Generative AI Services and AIGC Networks
Speaker Prof. Dusit Niyato
(President's Chair Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Date Time
& Venue
May 12, 2023 (Fri) 9:30 - 10:30 am
Mr and Mrs YK Jim Christian Worship and Classroom (AAB606), Academic and Administration Building, Baptist University Road Campus, HKBU / Online via Zoom
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Querying Geo-Textual Data Using Keywords – A Retrospective
Speaker Prof. Christian S. Jensen
(Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark)
Date Time
& Venue
Apr 28, 2023 (Fri) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Siu Lun Lecture Theatre (WLB 205), The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU / Online via Zoom
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People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust from the Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused Workplace
Speaker Prof. Noshir Contractor
(Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University)
Date Time
& Venue
Apr 25, 2023 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Mrs. Padma Harilela Lecture Theatre (WLB 104), The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU / Online via Zoom
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Commodifying Data Exploration
Speaker Prof. Sihem Amer-Yahi
(CNRS Research Director, Lab of Informatics of Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Date Time
& Venue
Apr 3, 2023 (Mon) 10:00 - 11:00 am
Mrs. Padma Harilela Lecture Theatre (WLB 104), The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU / Online via Zoom
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Towards Sustainable Edge and IoT: An Integral View from the Energy Perspective
Speaker Prof. Jiangchuan Liu
(Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 31, 2023 (Fri) 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Online via Zoom
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The State of Representing and Solving Games
Speaker Prof. Tuomas Sandholm
(Angel Jordan University Professor, Co-Director of CMU AI, Carnegie Mellon University)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 23, 2023 (Thu) 10:00 - 11:00 am
Online via Zoom Webinar
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Past, Present, and Future of Feature Extraction
Speaker Prof. Tatsuya Harada
(Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 7, 2023 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Online via Zoom Webinar
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Towards Interdisciplinary Education in the Metaverse
Speaker Prof. Toru Ishida
(Dr Kennedy Wong Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 9, 2023 (Thu) 2:00 - 3:00 pm
SWT 501, Shaw Tower, Shaw Campus, HKBU / Online via Zoom Webinar
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Past Distinguished Lectures

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