Thesis Defense


Upcoming Thesis Defense

To be announced.


Past Thesis Defense

Exploiting Prior Knowledge and Contextual Awareness for Adaptive and Interpretable Healthcare Analytics
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)


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