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
23 Mar 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF [Reserved]
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

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

Mo Li is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2026.

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