Thesis Defense


2021 Series

Advances in WiFi Fingerprinting Positioning System: Anchor Optimization, Fingerprint Processing and Theoretic Error Bound Analysis
Candidate Ms. Qiaolin PU
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Dec 10, 2021 (Fri) 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Zoom ID: 982 1274 4605
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/sem-zm
(Deadline: 6:00pm, 8 December 2021)
Supervisor Prof Joseph K Y NG
External Examiners Ir Dr TSANG Kim-Fung (EEx from City University of Hong Kong)
Prof Leonard BAROLLI (EEx from Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan)

Advances in Query Intention Construction and Learning in Image Retrieval
Candidate Mr. Sheung Wai CHAN
(MPhil Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 30, 2021 (Tue) 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Zoom ID: 919 1023 4067
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/sem-zm
(Deadline: 1:00pm, 29 November 2021)
Supervisor Prof Yiu Ming CHEUNG
External Examiner Prof ZHANG Qingfu (EEx from City University of Hong Kong)

Towards Low-cost and Real-time Mobile Sensing
Candidate Mr. Hao Li
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 23, 2021 (Mon) 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Zoom ID: 946 7052 2801
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/sem-zm
(Deadline: 6:00pm, 22 August 2021)
Supervisor Prof Joseph K Y NG
External Examiners Prof. BAROLLI, Leonard (EEx from Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan)
Ir Dr. TSANG, Kim-Fung (EEx from City University of Hong Kong)

Time series analysis on shapelets discovery
Candidate Mr. Guozhong Li
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 4, 2021 (Wed) 9:00 - 11:00 am
Zoom ID: 965 5181 0596
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/sem-zm
(Deadline: 6:00pm, 3 August 2021)
Supervisor Dr. Byron CHOI
External Examiners Prof CHEN Yi (EEx from New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Prof Joseph NG (Proxy for Dr LU Haiping, EEx from The University of Sheffield, UK)

Deep Learning Models for Irregular Electronic Health Record Data Analysis
Candidate Mr. Qingxiong TAN
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 8, 2021 (Thu) 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Zoom ID: 968 7786 3247
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/sem-zm
(Deadline: 1:00pm, 07 July 2021)
Supervisor Prof Pong Chi YUEN
External Examiners Prof JIANG Xiaoyi (EEx from The University of Munster)
Prof Jane YOU (EEx from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Learning Phenotypes from Electronic Health Records using Robust Temporal Tensor Factorization
Candidate Mr. Kejing YIN
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 6, 2021 (Tue) 9:00 - 11:00 am
Zoom ID: 979 5937 1071
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/sem-zm
(Deadline: 1:00pm, 05 July 2021)
Supervisor Dr. William Cheung
External Examiners Prof Christopher C. Yang (EEx from Drexel University, USA)
Prof James Kwok (EEx from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Defense of Face Presentation Attacks and Adversarial Attacks
Candidate Mr. Rui SHAO
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
May 7, 2021 (Fri) 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Zoom ID: 986 1274 0338
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/sem-zm
(Deadline: 5:00pm, 05 May 2021)
Supervisor Prof Pong Chi YUEN
External Examiners Prof Julian FIERREZ (EEx from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Dr KONG Wai-Kin Adams (EEx from The Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

3D Mask Face Presentation Attack Detection with Remote Photoplethysmography
Candidate Mr. Siqi LIU
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Apr 9, 2021 (Fri) 9:00 - 11:00 am
Zoom ID: 955 9136 2815
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/sem-zm
(Deadline: 12:00nn, 07 April 2021)
Supervisor Prof Pong Chi YUEN
External Examiners Prof Kenneth LAM (EEx from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Dr Chen Change LOY (EEx from The Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Learning Complex Spatio-Temporal Dependency: Model Design, Information-Theoretic Analysis, and Systematic Validation
Candidate Mr. Qi TAN
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 24, 2021 (Wed) 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Zoom ID: 910 7571 1443
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/sem-zm
(Deadline: 12:00nn, 23 March 2021)
Supervisor Prof Liu Jiming
External Examiners Prof Yeung Dit-Yan (EEx from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Prof Tan Ah Hwee (EEx from Singapore Management University)


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