| Exploiting Prior Knowledge and Contextual Awareness for Adaptive and Interpretable Healthcare Analytics | |
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| Candidate | Mr. Chin Wang CHEONG (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Nov 3, 2025 (Mon) 2:30 - 4:30 pm RRS732, 7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus / Zoom ID: 952 9567 6885 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 2 November 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof. William Kwok Wai CHEUNG |
| External Examiners | Prof Michael SHENG (EEx from Macquarie University) Prof WONG Ka-Chun (EEx from City University of Hong Kong) |
| Advancing Precise Healthcare with LLMs: Improving Multimodal Integration and Clinical Interpretability | |
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| Candidate | Mr. NIU Shuai (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Oct 23, 2025 (Thu) 2:00 - 4:00 pm Zoom ID: 975 2677 3883 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 22 October 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof MA Jing |
| External Examiners | Prof HAN Rui (EEx from Beijing Institute of Technology) Prof GAO Wei (EEx from Singapore Management University) |
| Decoding the Genomic Landscape of the Human Gut Microbiota Using Large-Scale Metagenomic Sequencing Data | |
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| Candidate | Ms. WANG Jingjing (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Oct 21, 2025 (Tue) 9:30 - 11:30 am Zoom ID: 984 6346 5450 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 20 October 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof ZHANG Lu |
| External Examiners | Prof JIANG Miao (EEx from China Academy of Chinese Medical Science) Prof CAI Yunpeng (EEx from Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
| Towards Photorealistic and Efficient Human Avatars: Novel Representations and Real-time Strategies | |
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| Candidate | Mr. Ruiqi ZHANG (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Sep 29, 2025 (Mon) 3:30 - 5:00 pm Zoom ID: 973 4209 1783 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 28 September 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof CHEN Jie |
| External Examiners | Prof CHAU Lap-Pui (EEx from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Prof SHE Changyang (EEx from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen) |
| Scientific Machine Learning for Physical Fields Modeling: Methods and Applications | |
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| Candidate | Ms. ZHOU Chenhong (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Sep 23, 2025 (Tue) 2:00 - 3:30 pm Zoom ID: 923 0570 0904 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 22 September 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof CHEN Jie |
| External Examiners | Prof CHEN Zhenghua (EEx from Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Prof GAO Siping (EEx from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) |
| Evolutionary Data Synthesis for Enhancing Large Language Models in Code Generation | |
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| Candidate | Mr. Ziyang LUO (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Sep 10, 2025 (Wed) 2:30 - 4:30 pm Zoom ID: 979 5125 1707 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 9 September 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof MA Jing |
| External Examiners | Prof ZHANG Rui (EEx from Huazhong University of Sceince and Technology) Prof LEE Shu Tak Raymond (EEx from Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| Towards Secure and Integrity-assured Blockchain Query Processing | |
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| Candidate | Mr. Haixin WANG (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Aug 20, 2025 (Wed) 9:30 - 11:30 am Zoom ID: 981 9289 7853 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 19 August 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof. Jianliang XU |
| External Examiners | Prof. CAO Yang (EEx from Institute of Science Tokyo) Prof. XIAO Bin (EEx from Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
| Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning via Detection and Removal of Harmful Outputs | |
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| Candidate | Mr. Qizhou WANG (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
May 19, 2025 (Mon) 3:00 - 5:00 pm Zoom ID: 954 4143 6375 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-tdreg (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 18 May 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof. Bo HAN |
| External Examiners | Prof XU Chang (EEx from The University of Sydney) Prof LUO Ping (EEx from The University of Hong Kong) |
| Computational Methods for Single-cell Omics Data Analysis | |
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| Candidate | Mr. Ke XU (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
May 15, 2025 (Thu) 9:00 - 10:30 am Zoom ID: 982 0549 0889 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-tdreg (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 14 May 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof. Zhang Lu |
| External Examiners | Prof MA Wenji (EEx from Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Prof WEI Zhi (EEx from New Jersey Institute of Technology) |
| Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning for Out-of-distribution Data | |
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| Candidate | Mr. Jianing ZHU (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
May 14, 2025 (Wed) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Zoom ID: 970 4876 9288 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-tdreg (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 13 May 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof. Bo HAN |
| External Examiners | Prof. Shiqi Wang (EEx from CityU) Prof. Shirui PAN (EEx from Griffith University, Australia) |
| Advances in Backdoor Attacks and Defenses | |
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| Candidate | Mr. LIU Buhua (MPhil Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Feb 24, 2025 (Mon) 4:30 - 6:30 pm Zoom ID: 998 6975 3218 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg (Deadline: 1:00 pm, 23 February 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof. Yiu Ming CHEUNG |
| External Examiner | Prof WANG Shiqi (EEx from City University of Hong Kong) |
| Towards Clinically Accurate X-Ray Image Report Retrieval and Generation | |
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| Candidate | Mr. Sixing YAN (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Jan 20, 2025 (Mon) 6:00 - 8:00 pm Zoom ID: 939 8264 4241 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 20 January 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof. William Kwok Wai CHEUNG |
| External Examiners | Prof. Chenghua LIN (EEx from The University of Manchester) Prof. Fu Lai CHUNG (EEx from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
| Unleashing the Power of Random Projection for Efficient Machine Learning | |
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| Candidate | Mr. Zijian LEI (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Jan 15, 2025 (Wed) 9:00 - 10:30 am Zoom ID: 973 1049 9830 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 14 January 2025) |
| Supervisor | Prof. William Kwok Wai CHEUNG |
| External Examiners | Professor Benjamin C. M. FUNG (EEx from McGill University, Canada) Professor WONG Hau San (EEx from City University of Hong Kong) |