Seminars (Fall 2025)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Fall 2025

The regular seminar time slot is Monday, 4-5pm, except as otherwise indicated. These seminars are included in COMP 6911 & COMP 6912. Students should attend at least 7 seminars in each semester in order to pass COMP 6911 & COMP 6912. Seminars held in other time slots are listed below in Other Departmental Seminars and are not included in COMP 6911 & COMP 6912.

Note: For regular seminars held in real-time online mode (online via Zoom), you must sign in to the Zoom application with your HKUST Zoom account before joining the meeting, or else, your attendance would not be recorded.

Date & Time (HKT) Venue Title Speaker Host
01 Sep 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Towards Granular-Aware MLLM with Diverse Reasoning Capability: Technical Challenges and Open Questions Dr. May Fung
CSE		 B. Mak
08 Sep 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) Zoom Meeting PG Orientation
Presentation slides by PG Coordinator | CS System
Watch video playback 		Dr. Shuai Wang
PG Coordinator		 S. Wang
15 Sep 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF From Data to Decision: Ubiquitous Systems Shaping Healthcare and Education Dr. Qijia Shao
ISD		 M. Li
22 Sep 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Building Human-Centered Visual Analytics Tools Dr. Arpit Narechania
CSE		 X. Ma
29 Sep 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Markets as Approximation Algorithms: Their Design and Analysis Dr. Yaonan Jin
Huawei's Taylor Lab		 S.W. Cheng
06 Oct 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
13 Oct 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
20 Oct 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
27 Oct 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Accelerating Irregular Data Movement in AI Computing via Algorithm–Hardware Co-Design Dr. Chaojian Li
CSE		 B. Yuan
03 Nov 2025, Mon (11:00-12:30) LTH Data Management Strategies for Space-Efficient Decoding and Planning [IAS / School of Engineering Joint Lecture] Prof Panagiotis Karras
Univ. of Copenhagen		 R. Wong
03 Nov 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) [Rescheduled to 3 Nov 2025, Mon, 11am in LTH]
10 Nov 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Career Development for Engineering Research Students
[ENGG 6780 Seminar] 		Dr. Shuai Wang
Prof. Raymond Wong
Dr. Lionel Parreaux
Dr. Dan Xu
HKUST 		S. Wang
13 Nov 2025, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2303 Causal Representation Learning Dr. Guangyi Chen
CMU		 R. Wong
17 Nov 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Statistical Methods in Machine Learning Theory Dr. Zihang Zhang
CSE		 N.L. Zhang
24 Nov 2025, Mon (11:00-12:00) LTH Democratizing the Creation and Use of Biomedical Data Visualization Dr. Sehi L'Yi
Harvard Univ.		 A. Narechania
24 Nov 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Agentic Software Engineering: Leveraging LLMs to Enhance Software Development and Maintenance [CSE Distinguished Seminar] Prof. Michael Pradel
Univ. of Stuttgart		 J. Cao

Other Departmental Seminars Fall 2025

Date & Time (HKT) Venue Title Speaker Host

Mo Li is the seminar coordinator for Fall 2025.

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