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 & OCES		 M. Li
06 Apr 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Holiday)
13 Apr 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
20 Apr 2026, Mon (16:30-17:30) LTF Algorithms, Applications, and Verification of Causal Structure Learning (poster) [CSE Best PhD Dissertation Award Seminar] Dr. Pingchuan Ma
Zhejiang Univ. of Technology		 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
29 Apr 2026, Wed (16:00-17:00) Rm2405 Towards Formal Specification-Driven Development for the Masses Dr. Son Ho
Microsoft Azure Research		 L. Parreaux
04 May 2026, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Human-Centred Agentic Science: Sensemaking, Provenance, and Human-AI Collaboration 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
28 Apr 2026, Tue (16:00-17:00) Rm5562 TBA Prof. Qizhen ZHANG W. Wang

Mo Li is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2026.

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