Seminars (Spring 2026)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Spring 2026

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: Attendance will not be recorded for late arrival or early leave. For regular seminars held in real-time online mode (via Zoom), you must sign in to the Zoom application with your HKUST Zoom account before joining the meeting, otherwise, your attendance will not be recorded.

Date & Time (HKT) Venue Title Speaker Host
02 Feb 2026, Mon (09:30-10:30) Zoom Meeting Generative AI for High-Stakes Decisions with Societal Impact Dr. Lingkai Kong
Harvard SEAS		 J. Kwok
02 Feb 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) [Rescheduled to 2 Feb 2026, Mon, 9:30am on Zoom Meeting]
09 Feb 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Probabilistic 4D Scene Reconstruction from Monocular Videos Prof. Bohyung Han
SNU		 J. Jia
16 Feb 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
23 Feb 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
02 Mar 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF How Sampling Shapes LLM Alignment: From One-Shot Optima to Iterative Dynamics Dr. Yurong Chen
INRIA		 S.W. Cheng
03 Mar 2026, Tue (15:00-16:00) LTG Beyond Static Alignment: Advancing Trustworthy and Socially Intelligent AI Agents Dr. Jieyu Zhao
Univ. of Southern California		 Y. Song
09 Mar 2026, Mon (09:30-10:30) Zoom Meeting Causal AI for Transferable, Interpretable, and Controllable Machine Learning Lingjing Kong
Carnegie Mellon Univ.		 N.L. Zhang
09 Mar 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Towards Resilient Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems against Adversarial Examples Dr. Qun Song
CityU		 X. Ouyang
16 Mar 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Towards General Intelligence Sensing Technologies Dr. Zhenyu Yan
CUHK		 X. Ouyang
19 Mar 2026, Thu (09:30-10:30) Zoom Meeting AI that Knows When It Doesn't Know Haoyue Bai
Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison		 Q. Luo
23 Mar 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Interactive Design of High-Fidelity Physics via Progressive Simulation Jiayi Zhang
Stanford Univ.		 P. Sander
27 Mar 2026, Fri (10:00-11:00) Rm2504 Federated Cloud Computing Expands Medical Large Models and Embodied Artificial Intelligence [CSE Distinguished Seminar] Prof. Kai Hwang
Univ. of Southern California		 C. Li
30 Mar 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF AI and Systems Design for Marine Challenges Prof. Sai-Kit Yeung
ISD & CSE		 M. Li
06 Apr 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Holiday)
13 Apr 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF
20 Apr 2026, Mon (16:30-17:30) LTF Best PhD Dissertation Award K. Chen
27 Apr 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Designs to Support Better Visual Data Communication Dr. Cindy Xiong Bearfield
Georgia Institute of Technology 		A. Narechania
04 May 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF TBA Dr. Kai Xu
Univ. of Nottingham		 A. Narechania

Other Departmental Seminars Spring 2026

Date & Time (HKT) Venue Title Speaker Host
12 Mar 2026, Thu (14:00-15:00) Rm5619 Mathematical Artificial Intelligence for Networking and Communications Prof. Shui Yu
Univ. of Technology Sydney		 S. Guo
18 Mar 2026, Wed (14:00-16:00) Rm6519 Seminars by Prof. Kouichi Sakurai and Prof. Chunhua Su Prof. Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu Univ.
Prof. Chunhua Su, Univ. of Aizu 		S. Guo

Mo Li is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2026.

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