Seminars (Spring 2025)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Spring 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
03 Feb 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar
06 Feb 2025, Thu (16:00-17:00) Rm2306 Privacy-first Information Algorithm Designs Mr. Mingxun Zhou
CMU		 K. Yi
10 Feb 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF AI Coders Are among Us: Rethinking Programming Language Grammar towards Efficient Code Generation Dr. Xiaoning Du
Monash Univ.		 V. Tian
11 Feb 2025, Tue (10:00-11:00) Zoom Meeting Cyber-Physical Security Through the Lens of AI-Enabled Systems Mr. Zhiyuan Yu
Washington Univ. in St. Louis		 S. Wang
17 Feb 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Leveraging Sociotechnical Security and Privacy to Address Online Abuse Miranda Wei
Univ. of Washington		 X. Ma
19 Feb 2025, Wed (17:00-18:00) LTB Handling Ranges in Main Memory Prof. Nikos Mamoulis
Univ. of Ioannina		 R. Wong
24 Feb 2025, Mon (10:00-11:00) Zoom Meeting Optimal Algorithms for Interactive Settings: Multi-Distribution Learning and Reinforcement Learning Dr. Zihan Zhang
Univ. of Washington		 S.W. Cheng
24 Feb 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF City Intelligence: From Simulators to World Models Dr. Jessie Li
Yunqi Academy of Engineering		 Q. Luo
03 Mar 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Towards Sensing Intelligence with Ambient Systems Dr. Dongyao Chen
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.		 M. Li
10 Mar 2025, Mon (10:00-11:00) Zoom Meeting Advancing Security Red-Teaming through Probabilistic Binary Analysis Dr. Zhuo Zhang
Purdue Univ.		 C. Zhang
10 Mar 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) [Rescheduled to 10 Mar 2025, Mon, 10am on Zoom Meeting]
13 Mar 2025, Thu (16:00-17:00) Rm4502 Language-Grounded Visual Intelligence Dr. Yiwu Zhong
CUHK		 D. Xu
17 Mar 2025, Mon (10:00-11:00) Zoom Meeting Improving Trustworthiness in Foundation Models: Assessing, Mitigating, and Analyzing ML Risks Ms. Chulin Xie
Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign		 B. Yuan
17 Mar 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF A view on language model pre-training and inference: Data curation, sample reweighting, and energy-optimal inference for higher user satisfaction Herbert Woisetschläger
Technical Univ. of Munich		 A. Jacobsen
18 Mar 2025, Tue (11:00-12:00) Rm2504 AI for Medical Imaging, Digital Twins & Medicine [CSE Distinguished Seminar] Prof. Nicholas Ayache
Inria		 A. Chung
20 Mar 2025, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2504 Towards Intelligent Multimedia Streaming Dr. Feng Qian
Univ. of Southern California		 W. Wang
24 Mar 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Building a Sustainable Data Foundation for AI Yizhong Wang
Univ. of Washington		 Y. Song
26 Mar 2025, Wed (09:30-10:30) Zoom Meeting Enabling Ubiquitous 3D Intelligence via Multi-Granular Algorithm-Hardware Synergy Chaojian Li
Georgia Institute of Technology		 B. Yuan
27 Mar 2025, Thu (10:00-11:00) Zoom Meeting Towards Efficient AI Training: Theoretical Foundations of Sample and Computational Efficiency in Decision-Making Jian Qian
MIT		 S. Cheng
28 Mar 2025, Fri (11:00-11:30) Zoom Meeting Long Range and Robust Drone Communication for Low-Altitude Networks Dr. Songfan Li
HKUST		 M. Li
31 Mar 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Reasoning about Equivalence Dr. Jules Jacobs
Cornell Univ.		 L. Parreaux
07 Apr 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Advancing a Development Platform for Large Language Model Applications Dr. Zheng Wang
Huawei Singapore Research Center		 R. Wong
14 Apr 2025, Mon (11:00-12:00) Rm4504 AI and the future of radiology [CSE Distinguished Seminar] Prof. Daniel Rueckert
Technical Univ. of Munich		 A. Chung
14 Apr 2025, Mon (14:30-15:30) Rm2504 Trusted Automatic Programming Prof. Abhik Roychoudhury
National Univ. of Singapore 		C. Zhang
14 Apr 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Toward Secure AI Systems (poster) Dr. Yuanyuan Yuan
ETH Zürich		 K. Chen
16 Apr 2025, Wed (11:00-12:00) Rm2303 Trustworthy and Continually Adaptable Multimodal AI Systems Dr. Jaehong Yoon
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		 D.Y. Yeung
21 Apr 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Hoilday)
28 Apr 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF The Promise and Pitfalls of Public Data in Private ML Dr. Gautam Kamath
Univ. of Waterloo		 K. Yi
05 May 2025, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Hoilday)

Other Departmental Seminars Spring 2025

Date & Time (HKT) Venue Title Speaker Host
20 Feb 2025, Thu (10:00-11:00) Rm3523 Towards Prevalence of On-Device AI with Full Runtime Adaptability Prof. Wei Gao
Univ. of Pittsburgh		 M. Li
26 Feb 2025, Wed (10:45-12:00) Rm1104 AI-driven fuzzing across the software stack Prof. Ho Chen
HKU		 S. Wang
03 Mar 2025, Mon (16:00-18:00) Rm3598 Expediting Next-Generation AI for Health via KG and LLM Co-Learning Prof. Carl Yang
Emory Univ.		 Y. Song
06 Mar 2025, Thu (14:00-15:00) Rm4502 Auditing for Accountability: Considerations for Meaningful Systems Transparency Prof. Jat Singh
Univ. Alliance Ruhr		 L. Parreaux
19 Mar 2025, Wed (14:00-15:00) Rm3598 Optimizing Data Locality for Scalable Graph Processing and Graph Learning Systems Nikolai Merkel
Technical Univ. of Munich		 A. Jacobsen
21 Mar 2025, Fri (14:00-15:00) Rm5510 Training Graph Neural Networks with large-scale Graphs Jana Vatter
Technical Univ. of Munich		 A. Jacobsen
24 Mar 2025, Mon (14:00-15:00) Rm4475 Multimodal Commonsense Reasoning Dr. James Wang
UCLA		 M. Fung
07 May 2025, Wed (14:30-16:00) Rm3598 Building Generative AI Applications: Architectures, Evaluation, and Experiments Prof. John Mitchell
Stanford Univ.		 Y. Song

Mo Li is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2025.

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