| Enhancing User-Side Fairness in Single- and Cross-Domain Recommender Systems | |
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| Candidate | Mr. CHEN Weixin (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Aug 6, 2026 (Thu) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm DLB 637, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus / Zoom ID: 968 9725 6064 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 5 August 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof CHEN Li |
| External Examiners | Prof YAO Lina (EEx from The University of New South Wales) Prof ZHAO Xiangyu (EEx from City University of Hong Kong) |
| Decentralized Online Convex Optimization with Hard Constraints and Its Application to Over-the-Air Federated Learning | |
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| Candidate | Mr. LIU Yituo (MPhil Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Aug 5, 2026 (Wed) 3:00 - 5:00 pm DLB 601, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus / Zoom ID: 915 8097 0929 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 4 August 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof WANG Juncheng |
| External Examiner | Prof TANG Jianhua (EEx from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) |
| Giant-Step-Small-Step Indexing for Approximate Similarity Search in Graph Databases | |
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| Candidate | Mr. GONG Yika (MPhil Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Aug 4, 2026 (Tue) 2:30 - 4:30 pm Zoom ID: 981 4409 1648 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 3 August 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof. Byron Koon Kau CHOI |
| External Examiner | Prof FANG Yixiang (EEx from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) |
| Multimodal Learning from Laboratory Tests and Medical Images for Disease Prediction | |
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| Candidate | Mr. XU Jingwen (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Jul 30, 2026 (Thu) 2:30 - 4:30 pm DLB 601, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus / Zoom ID: 977 0818 3140 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 29 July 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof YUEN Pong Chi |
| External Examiners | Prof LAM Kenneth K M (EEx from Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Prof YUAN Yixuan (EEx from The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| An Efficient and Scalable CT Reconstruction Framework for Edge Devices | |
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| Candidate | Ms. CHEN Xuetao (MPhil Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Jul 30, 2026 (Thu) 9:30 - 11:30 am Zoom ID: 936 5257 2514 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 29 July 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof ZHOU Chi |
| External Examiner | Prof WANG Zeke (EEx from Zhejiang University) |
| Data-Centric Algorithms for Scalable Logic Synthesis | |
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| Candidate | Mr. TANG Ruofei (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Jul 21, 2026 (Tue) 2:30 - 4:30 pm Zoom ID: 988 2889 2887 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 20 July 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof XU Jianliang |
| External Examiners | Prof CHU Zhufei (EEx from Ningbo University) Prof SHAO Zili (EEx from The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| Distribution-Aware Query Processing: Efficient Indexing and Secure Retrieval in Databases | |
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| Candidate | Mr. ZHANG Xinyi (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Jul 20, 2026 (Mon) 9:30 am - 12:00 pm DLB 637, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus / Zoom ID: 920 3783 5535 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 19 July 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof XU Jianliang |
| External Examiners | Prof YU Xu Jeffrey (EEx from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) Prof CONG Gao (EEx from Nanyang Technological University) |
| Advances in Cluster Analysis: Adaptive and Unbiased Clustering | |
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| Candidate | Mr. ZOU Rong (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Jun 29, 2026 (Mon) 9:30 - 11:30 am Zoom ID: 927 5609 3180 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 28 June 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof CHEUNG Yiu-Ming |
| External Examiners | Prof LIU Yan (EEx from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Prof WANG Shiqi (EEx from City University of Hong Kong) |
| Trustworthy Reasoning with Foundation Models: Robustness, Autonomy, and Interpretability | |
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| Candidate | Mr. ZHOU Zhanke (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Jun 23, 2026 (Tue) 4:00 - 6:00 pm Zoom ID: 970 3425 7854 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 22 June 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof. Bo HAN |
| External Examiners | Prof SONG Yangqiu (EEx from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Prof ZHAO Xiangyu (EEx from City University of Hong Kong) |
| Adaptive Message Propagation on Attributed Graphs: From Localized Diffusion to Global Filtering | |
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| Candidate | Mr. ZHENG Haoran (MPhil Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
May 27, 2026 (Wed) 2:00 - 4:00 pm DLB 601, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus / Zoom ID: 912 2088 8696 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 26 May 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof YANG Renchi |
| External Examiner | Prof WANG Sibo (EEx from The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| Understanding Factuality and Harmfulness on Social Media with Language Models | |
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| Candidate | Mr. LIN Hongzhan (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
May 12, 2026 (Tue) 3:30 - 5:30 pm Zoom ID: 932 4895 3345 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 11 May 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof MA Jing |
| External Examiners | Prof LIM Ee-Peng (EEx from Singapore Management University) Prof HE Yulan (EEx from King’s College London) |
| Decoding the Human Gut Microbiome with Advanced Metagenomic Sequencing Technologies | |
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| Candidate | Mr. YANG Chao (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
May 11, 2026 (Mon) 2:30 - 4:30 pm Zoom ID: 984 3484 6409 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 10 May 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof ZHANG Lu |
| External Examiners | Prof ZHANG Yan (EEx from Guangzhou Medical University) Prof LIU Xiaomin (EEx from Southern University of Science and Technology) |
| Towards Robust Reconstruction and Controllable Generation of 3D Human Motion | |
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| Candidate | Mr. JIANG Junkun (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
May 7, 2026 (Thu) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Zoom ID: 936 0041 5703 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 6 May 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof. CHEN Jie |
| External Examiners | Prof LUO Wenhan (EEx from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Prof SHENG Lu (EEx from Beihang University) |
| Data-Driven Approaches to Efficient and Effective Transformers for Time Series Analysis | |
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| Candidate | Mr. ZUO Rundong (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Apr 30, 2026 (Thu) 2:00 - 4:00 pm DLB 637, 6/F, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus / Zoom ID: 942 4026 9193 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 29 April 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof. Byron Koon Kau CHOI |
| External Examiners | Prof WONG Chi Wing (EEx from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Prof WANG Sibo (EEx from The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| Reliable and Efficient Learning of Radiance Field Representations | |
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| Candidate | Mr. LI Ruiqi (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Mar 24, 2026 (Tue) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Zoom ID: 978 1000 9121 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 23 March 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof CHEUNG Yiu-Ming |
| External Examiners | Prof XIAO Bin (EEx from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Prof XU Guandong (EEx from The Education University of Hong Kong) |
| Representing the World Implicitly: From the Representation to Its Protection | |
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| Candidate | Mr. LUO Ziyuan (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Mar 19, 2026 (Thu) 2:00 - 4:00 pm Zoom ID: 945 5267 3816 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 18 March 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof WAN Renjie |
| External Examiners | Prof LI Xiaoli (EEx from Singapore University of Technology and Design) Prof ZHENG Yinqiang (EEx from The University of Tokyo) |
| Deep Language Model for Metagenomic Data Analysis | |
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| Candidate | Mr. ZOU Bohao (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Mar 13, 2026 (Fri) 1:00 - 3:00 pm Zoom ID: 971 5027 5299 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 12 March 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof ZHANG Lu |
| External Examiners | Prof SUN Yanni (EEx from City University of Hong Kong) Prof CUI Xuefeng (EEx from Shandong University) |
| High-Fidelity Image Restoration with Limited Supervision: Perceptual Quality and Physical Integrity | |
|---|---|
| Candidate | Mr. YANG Xingxing (PhD Candidate) |
| Date Time & Venue |
Jan 12, 2026 (Mon) 2:00 - 4:00 pm Zoom ID: 944 2221 0766 (The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants) Registration: https://tinyurl.com/bucs-td (Deadline: 12:00 nn, 11 January 2026) |
| Supervisor | Prof. CHEN Jie |
| External Examiners | Prof MEI Shaohui (EEx from Northwestern Polytechnical University) Prof CAO Danhua (EEx from Huazhong University of Science and Technology) |
