Thesis Defense


2024 Series

Advances in Hash-Based Cross-Modal Retrieval
Candidate Mr. Zhikai HU
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Nov 27, 2024 (Wed) 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Zoom ID: 997 1483 3866
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 26 November 2024)
Supervisor Prof. Yiu Ming CHEUNG
External Examiners Prof Raymond Chi Wing WONG (EEx from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Dr ZHENG Yuanqing (EEx from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Efficient Community Search and Interactive Refinement in Complex Graphs
Candidate Ms. Longxu SUN
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 22, 2024 (Tue) 9:30 - 11:30 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University /
Zoom ID: 942 8441 4894
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 21 October 2024)
Supervisor Dr. Xin HUANG
External Examiners Prof LIU Chengfei (EEx from Swinburne University of Technology)
Dr LEE Wang-Chien (EEx from The Pennsylvania State University)


Detecting Online Misinformation and Stance with Weakly Supervised Models Assisted by Contextualized Social Wisdom
Candidate Ms. Ruichao YANG
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Oct 16, 2024 (Wed) 1:30 - 3:30 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University /
Zoom ID: 988 7719 6375
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 15 October 2024)
Supervisor Dr. Jing MA
External Examiners Prof LI Piji (EEx from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Dr ZHANG Rui (EEx from Jilin University)

Cohesive Subgraph Computation over Large-Scale Directed Graphs
Candidate Mr. Xuankun LIAO
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 23, 2024 (Fri) 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Zoom ID: 933 4798 3243
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 22 August 2024)
Supervisor Prof. Jianliang XU
External Examiners Prof FAN Yixiang (EEx from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Prof CHENG Hong (EEx from the Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Multi-class Imbalance Learning: Beyond Class Imbalance Ratios
Candidate Ms. Shuxian LI
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 23, 2024 (Fri) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom ID: 910 1065 1265
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 22 August 2024)
Supervisor Prof. Yiu Ming CHEUNG
External Examiners Prof LU Jie (EEx from the University of Technology Sydney)
Dr WANG Shiqi (EEx from City University of Hong Kong)

Interpretable Liver Pathology Image Analysis with Limited Annotated Data
Candidate Mr. Chong YIN
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Aug 16, 2024 (Fri) 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Zoom ID: 934 9485 1320
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 15 August 2024)
Supervisor Prof. Pong Chi YUEN
External Examiners Prof LAM Kin-Man Kenneth (EEx from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Prof Tomohiro KURODA (EEx from Kyoto University, Japan)

Towards Efficient and Reliable DNN Training and Inference on HPC Clusters
Candidate Mr. Yuxin WANG
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Jul 24, 2024 (Wed) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University /
Zoom ID: 973 5413 9693
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 23 July 2024)
Supervisor Dr. Amelie Chi ZHOU
External Examiners Prof XU Hong (EEx from the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Prof XU Yuedong (EEx from Fudan University)

Collaborative Machine Learning at Scale: Efficiency and Generalization
Candidate Mr. Zhenheng TANG
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Jun 3, 2024 (Mon) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University /
Zoom ID: 965 5550 6928
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 2 June 2024)
Supervisor Dr. Amelie Chi ZHOU
External Examiners Dr ZHENG Yuanqing (EEx from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Prof GUO Song (EEx from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Towards Efficient and High-quality 3D Scene Reconstruction and Novel View Rendering
Candidate Mr. Wenpeng XING
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
May 14, 2024 (Tue) 2:30 - 4:30 pm
RRS 732, 7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University /
Zoom ID: 997 8589 7113
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 13 May 2024)
Supervisor Dr. Jie CHEN
External Examiners Prof CHAU Lap-Pui (EEx from Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Dr SHENG Lu (EEx from Beihang University)

Compression and Acceleration for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Candidate Ms. Weichao LAN
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
May 9, 2024 (Thu) 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Zoom ID: 955 1661 9015
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 8 May 2024)
Supervisor Prof. Yiu Ming CHEUNG
External Examiners Prof WANG Shiqi (EEx from City University of Hong Kong)
Dr LIU Yan (EEx from Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Memory-Efficient Learning Algorithms for Feature and Relation Extraction with Applications to Genomics Data and Clinical Notes
Candidate Mr. Yu GENG
(MPhil Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Apr 30, 2024 (Tue) 9:00 - 11:00 am
Zoom ID: 910 0996 2829
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 29 April 2024)
Supervisor Prof. William Kwok Wai CHEUNG
External Examiner Prof WONG Hau-San (EEx from City University of Hong Kong)

Efficient Truss Decomposition and Maintenance over Dynamic Complex Networks
Candidate Mr. Zitan SUN
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Apr 23, 2024 (Tue) 9:30 - 11:30 am
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University /
Zoom ID: 951 2548 6748
(The password and direct link will only be provided to registrants)

Registration: https://bit.ly/bucs-reg
(Deadline: 12:00 nn, 22 April 2024)
Supervisor Dr. Xin HUANG
External Examiners Dr WANG Jiannan (EEx from Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Dr WU Yinghui (EEx from Case Western Reserve University, USA)

Concealed Graph Pattern Queries on Large Graphs
Candidate Mr. Lyu XU
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Mar 22, 2024 (Fri) 3:00 - 5:00 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus
Supervisor Prof. Byron Koon Kau CHOI
External Examiners Prof CHENG Chun-Kong Reynold (EEx from the University of Hong Kong)
Prof HU Haibo (EEx from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Advanced Computational Methods to Decipher Microbial Dark Matter by Metagenome Sequencing
Candidate Mr. Zhenmiao ZHANG
(PhD Candidate)
Date Time
& Venue
Jan 25, 2024 (Thu) 3:30 - 5:30 pm
DLB637, 6/F, David C Lam Building, Shaw Campus
Supervisor Dr. Eric Lu ZHANG
External Examiners Prof LI Shuaicheng (EEx from City University of Hong Kong)
Prof SUNG Wing-Kin (EEx from the Chinese University of Hong Kong)


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