Seminars (Fall 2023)
Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Fall 2023
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.
| Date & Time (HKT) | Venue | Title | Speaker | Host | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Sep 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | PG Orientation (presentation slides) | Dr. Yangqiu Song PG Coordinator  | 
 Y. Song | 
| 11 Sep 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | Unlocking Your Career Potential: Mastering CV Writing for Internships, Graduate Jobs, and PhD Applications | Ms. Michelle Man Communication Tutor  | 
 Y. Song | 
| 18 Sep 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | Creating a ROS 2 distribution | Prof Dirk Riehle Univ. of Erlangen  | 
 S. Wang | 
| 25 Sep 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | Gaze estimation technique and its applications | Dr. Haofei Wang Peng Cheng Laboratory  | 
 N.L. Zhang | 
| 02 Oct 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | No Seminar (Public Hoilday) | |||
| 09 Oct 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | Synthesizing (Differential) Invariants by Reduction Non-convex Programming to SDP | Prof. Naijun Zhan ISCAS, China  | 
 A. Goharshady | 
| 16 Oct 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | Stochastic Cumulative DNN Inference for Intelligent IoT Applications | Prof. Weihua Zhuang Univ. of Waterloo  | 
 S. Guo | 
| 19 Oct 2023, Thu (16:00-17:00) | Rm1103 | Robust AI for Security | Dr. Yizheng Chen Univ. of Maryland  | 
 D. She | 
| 23 Oct 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | No Seminar (Public Hoilday) | |||
| 30 Oct 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | Accommodating LLM training over decentralized computational resources | Dr. Binhang Yuan HKUST  | 
 R. Wong | 
| 06 Nov 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | Breaking the Memory Barrier: Accelerating DLRM Inference with Real-World PIM Architecture | Dr. Amelie Chi Zhou HKBU  | 
 Q. Luo | 
| 13 Nov 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | Career Development for Engineering Research Students | 
Prof. Xiaofang Zhou Prof. Dit-Yan Yeung Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung Prof. Mo Li Dr. Dan Xu Dr. Binhang Yuan HKUST  | 
 Y. Song | 
| 20 Nov 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | AIoT for Safer, Healthier, and Smarter Environments [CSE Distinguished Seminar] | Prof. Fred Jiang Columbia Univ.  | 
 M. Li | 
| 27 Nov 2023, Mon (16:00-17:00) | LTF | Efficient Adaptation and Evaluation of LLMs | Dr. Junxian He HKUST  | 
 N.L. Zhang | 
Other Departmental Seminars Fall 2023
| Date & Time (HKT) | Venue | Title | Speaker | Host | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Sep 2023, Tue (11:00-12:00) | Rm3523 | Tiling Algorithms | Stefan Langerman Université Libre de Bruxelles  | 
 M. Golin | 
| 03 Oct 2023, Tue (10:30-11:30) | Rm3523 | Pattern Matching in Doubling Spaces | Prof. Antoine Vigneron UNIST  | 
 S. Cheng | 
| 19 Oct 2023, Thu (15:00-16:00) | Rm5508 | Data-driven Scientific Discovery and Ubiquitous Computing: Systems, Algorithms, Applications | Dr. Qin Lv Univ. of Colorado Boulder  | 
 M. Li | 
| 30 Nov 2023, Thu (09:30-10:30) | Rm3520 | Distances and shortest paths on graphs of bounded highway dimension: Simple, Fast, Dynamic | John Iacono Université Libre de Bruxelles  | 
 S. Cheng | 
| 30 Nov 2023, Thu (10:45-11:45) | Rm3520 | AIFV-m Coding and Finding the Cheapest Markov Chain | Prof. Mordecai Golin HKUST  | 
 S. Cheng | 
| 05 Dec 2023, Tue (16:00-17:00) | LTH | Qwen: Towards a Generalist Model | Junyang Lin Alibaba  | 
 H. Chen | 
| 13 Dec 2023, Wed (16:00-17:00) | Rm1409 | Deep Learning Model Backdoor Detection and Removal | Prof. Xiangyu Zhang Purdue Univ.  | 
 C. Zhang | 
Nevin Zhang is the seminar coordinator for Fall 2023.