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Upcoming Colloquia / Seminars / Industry Talks

AI Powered Multi-Modal Cardiac Data Analysis: Towards to Cardiac Digital Twins for Personalized Healthcare
Speaker Dr. Lei Li
(Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore)
Date Time
& Venue
Dec 12, 2025 (Fri) 2:00 - 3:00 pm
DLB111, 1/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster

Dynamic World Modeling: Humans, Objects, Scenes, and Interactions via Generative AI
Speaker Dr. Yukang Cao
(Postdoctoral Researcher, Nanyang Technological University)
Date Time
& Venue
Dec 16, 2025 (Tue) 10:30 - 11:30 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus
Remarks Poster


Past Colloquia / Seminars / Industry Talks

Scalable Data Analytics — with Rigorous Privacy Guarantees
Speaker Dr. Hao WU
(William T. Tutte Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo)
Date Time
& Venue
Dec 8, 2025 (Mon) 10:00 - 11:00 am
Zoom
Remarks Poster

Online Learning × Quantum Network: Foundations, Fusion & Frontier
Speaker Dr. Xuchuang WANG
(Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 25, 2025 (Tue) 10:00 - 11:00 am
Zoom
Remarks Poster

Visual Quality Assessment based on LVLMs: from Perception to Trust
Speaker Prof. Shiqi Wang
(Professor, Department of Computer Science, The City University of Hong Kong)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 24, 2025 (Mon) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
AAB609, 6/F, Academic and Administration Building, Baptist University Road Campus
Remarks Poster  Photos

Modelling Label Noise
Speaker Dr. Tongliang Liu
(Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 24, 2025 (Mon) 10:00 - 11:00 am
AAB609, 6/F, Academic and Administration Building, Baptist University Road Campus
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Causal Representation Learning
Speaker Dr. Guangyi Chen
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Research Scientist, The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI))
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 13, 2025 (Thu) 3:00 - 4:00 pm
RRS732, 7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Accelerating Federated Large Model Fine-Tuning by Model Compression
Speaker Dr. Yipeng Zhou
(Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Macquarie University)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 13, 2025 (Thu) 10:00 - 11:00 am
RRS732, 7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Long-read Small Variant Calling
Speaker Dr. Ruibang Luo
(Associate Professor, School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 5, 2025 (Wed) 10:00 - 11:00 am
JC3_G02, Jockey Club Campus of Creativity, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Navigating Uncertainty in Causal Reasoning
Speaker Dr. Shaobo CUI
(Postdoctoral Researcher, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
Date Time
& Venue
Sep 2, 2025 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Online Via Zoom
Remarks Poster

Ensuring Contamination-Robustness in LLM Benchmark Design
Speaker Dr. Takashi Ishida
(Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, The University of Tokyo)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 28, 2025 (Thu) 3:00 - 4:00 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection on Unseen Graphs
Speaker Prof. Ling Chen
(Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Technology Sydney)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 28, 2025 (Thu) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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LLMs in Action: From Model Development to Evaluation in Recommender Systems
Speaker Dr. Zhu Sun
(Assistant Professor, Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 27, 2025 (Wed) 10:30 - 11:30 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Towards Neural Graph Databases: Data, Algorithms, and Applications
Speaker Dr. Jiaxin BAI
(Postdoctoral Researcher, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 26, 2025 (Tue) 10:30 - 11:30 am
JC3 UG04, Jockey Club Campus of Creativity, HKBU
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Advancing Evaluation Agents via LLM Integration in WeChat Search
Speaker Mr. Qiang Yan
(Team Leader, WeChat Group, Tencent Corporation)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 22, 2025 (Fri) 2:00 - 3:00 pm
RRS732, 7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Empowering LLMs: How Graph Reasoning Drives Generalized Thinking
Speaker Dr. Jia Li
(Assistant Professor, Data Science and Analytics Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 19, 2025 (Tue) 10:00 - 11:00 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, HKBU
Remarks Poster  Photos

Observability: From Data Collection to Automated Mitigation in 5G Networks and Cloud/Edge Environment
Speaker Prof. Nadjib Aitsaadi
(Full Professor, UVSQ Paris-Saclay University)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 14, 2025 (Thu) 10:00 - 11:00 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster

AI and Digital Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future: A Tale of Twin Transition
Speaker Prof. Yonggang Wen
(Professor and President’s Chair, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 13, 2025 (Wed) 10:30 - 11:30 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Transfer Learning in Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
Speaker Prof. Weike Pan
(Professor, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 7, 2025 (Thu) 3:00 - 4:00 pm
UG05, Jockey Club Campus of Creativity, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Explanatory Debiasing: Mitigating Representation Bias Through Human-AI Interaction
Speaker Mr. Aditya Bhattacharya
(Lead Researcher, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, KU Leuven)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 6, 2025 (Wed) 2:00 - 3:00 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Efficient Learning for Linear Properties of Bounded-gate Quantum Circuits
Speaker Dr. Min-Hsui Hsieh
(Director, Hon Hai Quantum Computing Research Center)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 4, 2025 (Mon) 10:30 - 11:30 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Continuous Representation-Induced Regularization Methods for Multi-Dimensional Data Recovery
Speaker Prof. Deyu Meng
(Professor, Institute for Information and System Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 23, 2025 (Wed) 10:00 - 11:00 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Generative Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization
Speaker Prof. Junchi Yan
(Full Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 7, 2025 (Mon) 5:00 - 6:00 pm
RRS732, 7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Foundation Models in Healthcare: Advances, Pitfalls, and Path Forward
Speaker Dr. Xiaoxiao Li
(Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 7, 2025 (Mon) 10:00 - 11:00 am
DLB111, 1/F, David C.Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Vertical Application of LLMs and Horizontal Expansion of Small Models in Intelligent Medicine
Speaker Prof. Bairong Shen
(Professor, Institutes for Systems Genetics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 24, 2025 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
JC3 UG03, The Jockey Club Campus of Creativity, HKBU
Remarks Poster  Photos

Modular Sparsification of DNNs to Improve Pruning Performance and Model Interpretability
Speaker Prof. Ping Chen
(Professor, Department of Engineering)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 13, 2025 (Fri) 3:00 - 4:00 pm
DLB111, 1/F, David C.Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Challenges and Opportunities for Federated Learning with Foundation Models
Speaker Dr. Han Yu
(Associate Professor, College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University)
Date Time
& Venue
May 19, 2025 (Mon) 10:00 - 11:00 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Low-Data Imitation Learning
Speaker Prof. Ivor W. Tsang
(Director, A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR))
Date Time
& Venue
May 15, 2025 (Thu) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Model Merging with Sparsity: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
Speaker Dr. Han Zhao
(Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (affiliated), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Date Time
& Venue
May 14, 2025 (Wed) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
DLB111, 1/F, David C.Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

On the Identifiability of ODEs/SDEs for Causal Inference
Speaker Dr. Mingming Gong
(Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Melbourne Centre for Data Science, The University of Melbourne)
Date Time
& Venue
May 12, 2025 (Mon) 9:30 - 10:30 am
DLB111, 1/F, David C.Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Exploring Insights with Partial Labels
Speaker Prof. Gang Niu
(Senior Research Scientist, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project)
Date Time
& Venue
May 6, 2025 (Tue) 4:30 - 5:30 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

The First Algorithms to Compute the SVD
Speaker Prof. Walter Gander
(Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich)
Date Time
& Venue
May 2, 2025 (Fri) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

Domain Identification, Integration, and 3D Reconstruction with Spatial Transcriptomics Data
Speaker Dr. Maizie Zhou
(Assistant Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University)
Date Time
& Venue
May 2, 2025 (Fri) 2:30 - 3:30 pm
DLB111, 1/F, David C.Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos

NN Learning Driven Automatic Control & Automatic Control for Machine Learning
Speaker Prof. Yongduan Song
(Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Chongqing University)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 17, 2025 (Mon) 10:30 - 11:30 am
Cheung Ching Lan Diana Memorial Lecture Theatre (WLB204), The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU
Remarks Poster  Photos

Meta-Learning Meets Continual Learning: Towards Autonomous and Continuous Learning Systems
Speaker Dr. Long-Kai HUANG
(Senior Researcher, AI for Science Center, Tencent AI Lab)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 7, 2025 (Fri) 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Online Via Zoom
Remarks Poster

Towards Secure, Reliable, and Efficient Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS): Attacks and Defenses
Speaker Dr. Tao NI
(Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 20, 2025 (Thu) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
WLB 206, The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU
Remarks Poster

Rethinking Recommender System’s Sustainability and Dataset Diversity
Speaker Prof. Joeran Beel
(Head of the Intelligent Systems Group, University of Siegen, Germany)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 10, 2025 (Mon) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
WLB 202, The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, HKBU
Remarks Poster  Photos

Towards Realistic Cloth Modeling
Speaker Mr. Ren LI
(PhD Candidate, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 4, 2025 (Tue) 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Online Via Zoom
Remarks Poster

Human-in-the-loop Learning for Smart Cities
Speaker Dr. Lingjie DUAN
(Associate Head (Research) & Associate Professor, Engineering Systems and Design (ESD) Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design)
Date Time
& Venue
Feb 4, 2025 (Tue) 9:00 - 9:00 am
Online Via Zoom
Remarks Poster

Revealing Causal Information from Data
Speaker Prof. Tongliang Liu
(Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering The University of Sydney, Australia)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 14, 2025 (Tue) 10:00 - 11:00 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Remarks Poster  Photos


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