Seminars (Spring 2024)

Departmental Seminars (COMP 6911 & COMP 6912) Spring 2024

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
01 Feb 2024, Thu (10:00-11:00) Zoom Meeting Intelligent Software in the Era of Deep Learning Yuke Wang
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara		 K. Chen
05 Feb 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Sampling Algorithms for Gibbs Distributions Dr. Weiming Feng
ETH Zürich		 S. Arya
07 Feb 2024, Wed (11:00-12:00) LTG Supporting Real-time Analytics over Big Streaming Data [CSE Distinguished Seminar] Prof. Minos Garofalakis
Technical Univ. of Crete		 R. Wong
12 Feb 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Hoilday)
19 Feb 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Towards Helpful, Honest, and Harmless Information Communication with Human-Model Alignment and Multi-Cultural Understanding Yi Ren Fung
Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign		 Y. Song
21 Feb 2024, Wed (10:00-11:00) Zoom Meeting Trustworthy Machine Learning under Social and Adversarial Data Sources Han Shao
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago		 D.Y. Yeung
26 Feb 2024, Mon (10:00-11:00) Zoom Meeting Secure Runtime Programmable Networked Systems Jiarong Xing
Rice Univ.		 D. Papadopoulos
26 Feb 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) [Rescheduled to 26 Feb 2024, Mon, 10am on Zoom Meeting]
29 Feb 2024, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2405 Optimization in the Real World without Gradients: Theory and Practice Dr. Zhongxiang Dai
MIT		 J. Kwok
04 Mar 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Design and Deployment of AI-powered Internet of Things Systems for Smart Health Dr. Xiaomin Ouyang
UCLA		 M. Li
07 Mar 2024, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm2405 Designing Networked Graphics Systems for Fully Mobile Hyperrealistic Telepresence Kyungjin Lee
Seoul National Univ.		 G. Chan
11 Mar 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Designing Algorithms for Massive Graphs Dr. Yu Chen
EPFL		 K. Yi
13 Mar 2024, Wed (10:00-11:00) Zoom Meeting Effective Utilization of Machine Learning Marketplaces Lingjiao Chen
Stanford Univ.		 W. Wang
13 Mar 2024, Wed (14:30-15:30) Rm2405 InfiAgent: A Multi-Tool Agent for AI Operating Systems Dr. Hongxia Yang
ByteDance, USA		 S. Guo
18 Mar 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Towards Sustainable Scale-Up of LLMs Dr. Jie Fu
HKUST		 M. Li
19 Mar 2024, Tue (11:00-12:00) Zoom Meeting Evaluating and Designing Computing Systems for the Future of Work Hancheng Cao
Stanford Univ.		 X. Ma
25 Mar 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Human-AI Co-Creation of Visual Communication Dr. Yun Wang
Microsoft Research		 X. Ma
01 Apr 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) No Seminar (Public Hoilday)
08 Apr 2024, Mon (10:00-11:00) Zoom Meeting Towards Principled Sequential Decision-Making [Cancelled] Qinghua Liu
Princeton Univ.		 J. Kwok
08 Apr 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Medical Artificial Intelligence: A Perspective of Tencent [CSE Distinguished Seminar] Dr. Yefeng Zheng
Jarvis Research Center		 H. Chen
11 Apr 2024, Thu (11:00-12:00) Rm4580 Guidance-Enriched User Interfaces that Enhance Visual Data Analysis Arpit Narechania
Georgia Institute of Technology		 X. Ma
15 Apr 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Exploring Trustworthy Machine Learning under Imperfect Data Dr. Bo Han
HKBU		 J. Kwok
22 Apr 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Making Machine Learning Trustworthy in Vision Tasks Prof. Wenbo He
McMaster Univ.		 S. Guo
29 Apr 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Research and Application of Artificial Intelligence in Pathological and Genomic Computing [CSE Distinguished Seminar] Dr. Jianhua Yao
Tencent AI Lab		 H. Chen
06 May 2024, Mon (16:00-17:00) LTF Practical Data Analytics under Differential Privacy (poster) Dr. Wei Dong
Carnegie Mellon Univ.		 K. Chen

Other Departmental Seminars Spring 2024

Date & Time (HKT) Venue Title Speaker Host
26 Mar 2024, Tue (16:00-17:00) Rm4472 Federated Learning in Medical Imaging: Challenges, Algorithms, and Framework Dr. Ziyue Xu
NVIDIA		 H. Chen
09 Apr 2024, Tue (11:00-12:00) Rm4472 Next Generation Video Streaming Prof. Aruna Balasubramanian
Stony Brook Univ.		 M. Li
30 Apr 2024, Tue (11:00-12:00) Rm4472 Video Understanding and Generation: What's Next? Dr. Mike Zheng Shou
National Univ. of Singapore		 L. Chen
30 Apr 2024, Tue (14:30-15:30) Rm2405 Data Reliability and Reduction Efficiency in Big Data Era Prof. Xubin He
Temple Univ.		 S. Guo
16 May 2024, Thu (14:00-15:00) Rm5504 Go Beyond Black-box Policies: Rethinking the Design of Learning Agent for Interpretable and Verifiable HVAC Control Dr. Wan Du
Univ. of California		 M. Li
20 May 2024, Mon (15:00-16:00) Rm4580 A Road Towards an Interaction between Cyber Security and AIGC Prof. Yang Liu
Nanyang Technological Univ.		 S. Wang
15 Jul 2024, Mon (13:00-14:00) Rm4502 History-Determinism and Other Recent Developments in Graph Games Prof. Thomas A. Henzinger
IST Austria		 A. Goharshday
29 Jul 2024, Mon (11:00-12:00) Rm4502 mRNA Drug Design by Artificial Intelligence Prof. Zhi Xie
Sun Yat-sen Univ.		 H. Chen
5 Aug 2024, Mon (11:00-12:00) LTF The Journey to A Knowledgeable Assistant with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) [CSE Distinguished Seminar] Dr. Xin Luna Dong
Meta Reality Labs		 L. Chen

Mo Li is the seminar coordinator for Spring 2024.

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