Semester A - 2024/25

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Oct 15, Tue	2:00 PM	AI for Mathematics: from Digitization to Intelligentization	Professor Bin DONG	Peking University
Sept 30, Mon	3:30 PM	Hyper-Compression: Neural Network Compression via Hyper-function	Dr Fenglei FAN	The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sept 13, Fri	10:30 AM	AI for Scientific Computing from Multi-Scale Modeling to Multi-Scale Pre-Training	Dr Linfeng ZHANG	Princeton University
Sept 6, Fri	2:00 PM	Scalable AI – From Scalable Data Management to Neurosymbolic AI	Professor Emanuel Sallinger	TU Wien

 

Summer Term - 2023/24

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Aug 23, Fri	2:00 PM	Machine-learning-based Modeling of Multi-scale Dynamical Processes with Molecular Fidelity	Professor Huan LEI	Michigan State University
Jul 23, Tue	10:00 AM	Federated Learning and Analysis with Multi-access Edge Computing	Professor Zhu HAN	University of Houston, Texas
Jul 22, Mon	2:30 PM	AI-empowered mHealth: Pioneering Applications and Overcoming Key Challenges	Dr Tong XIA	University of Cambridge
Jun 19, Wed	3:00 PM	From Predictive to Prescriptive Analytics in Airport Capacity Management	Professor Nuno Ribeiro	Singapore University of Technology and Design
Jun 13, Thu	4:00 PM	From Bias to Bots with Human-in-the-Loop (HITL): Assessing Transparency and Enhancing Trust in Large Language Models	Professor Winson PENG	Michigan State University
Jun 13, Thu	10:00 AM	Making a Neural Network Smart Enough Not to Cross The Territory It Is Designed for: A Small Step	Professor Nikhil R. PAL	Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute

 

Semester B - 2023/24

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Institution
May 30, Thu	10:00 AM	Inferring Disease-Related Gene-Gene Interactions: Information-Theoretic and Fuzzy-Logic-Based Approaches	Professor Nikhil R. PAL	Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute
May 23, Thu	2:45 PM	Towards Building Next-Generation AI Assistants	Mr Fanghua YE	University College London (UCL)
May 23, Thu	10:00 AM	Single Frame Super Resolution: Fuzzy Rule-Based and Gaussian Mixture model-based Approaches	Professor Nikhil R. PAL	Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute
May 22, Wed	9:15 AM	Reasoning with Multimodal Knowledge: Towards Explainability and Robustness	Mr Zhecan James WANG	Columbia University
May 16, Thu	10:00 AM	Building Parsimonious Systems from Data: Computational Intelligence Approaches	Professor Nikhil R. PAL	Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute
May 9, Thu	10:00 AM	Artificial Intelligence with/without Biological Intelligence: Some Tidbits (Interplay between AI and BI)	Professor Nikhil R. PAL	Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute
May 2, Thu	3:00 PM	Unifying Vision Representation	Dr Tong ZHANG	Image and Visual Representation Lab (IVRL), EPEL
Apr 26, Thu	8:50 AM	Sample-Efficient Decision-Making Algorithms in Complex Environments	Dr Shuang QIU	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Apr 25, Thu	3:00 PM	Better Generative Models, Stronger AI Systems	Mr Ning Miao	University of Oxford
Apr 18, Thu	10:00 AM	Towards Robust Hyperspectral Unmixing Against Spectral Variability and Non-uniform Spectral Sampling	Professor Chao WANG	Southern University of Science and Technology
Apr 16, Tue	9:15 AM	Harnessing Game-Theoretic Optimization for Adversarial, Hierarchical, and Scalable Machine Learning Models	Dr Songtao LU	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Apr 11, Thu	10:00 AM	AI-Generated Medical Image	Professor S. Kevin ZHOU	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Mar 22, Fri	03:00 PM	Exploring Foundations of Stochastic Optimization: Insights from Statistical and Computational Perspectives	Dr Lu YU	Center for Research in Economics and Statistics
Mar 22, Fri	10:00 AM	Data-Driven Modeling and Optimization Methods for Current and Future Airspace Users	Professor Max LI	University of Michigan
Mar 14, Thu	3:00 PM	Global Converging Algorithms for Stochastic Hidden Convex Optimization	Dr Yifan HU	University of Illinois
Mar 11, Mon	9:00 AM	Facilitating the Adoption of Novel Ideas in Science: Necessity and Strategy	Dr Hao PENG	Kellogg School of Management.
Feb 22, Thu	4:30 PM	Echoes of Authenticity: Reclaiming Human Sentiment in the LLM Era	Professor Ram Gopal	University of Warwick
Feb 1, Thu	3:00 PM	Power of AI in Biotech & Agriculture - Exploring Real-Life Applications	Professor Dmitry Mikhaylov	Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy
Jan 29, Mon	10:00 AM	Enhancing Patent Writing: Strategies and Best Practices for Effective Patent Drafting	Professor Dmitry Mikhaylov	Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy
Jan 25, Thu	4:00 PM	Nonlinear Functional Regression by Functional Deep Neural Network with Kernel Embedding	Dr Zhongjie SHI	University of Hong Kong
Jan 25, Thu	2:00 PM	An Enhanced Gromov-Wasserstein Barycenter Method for Graph-based Clustering	Professor Zhen ZHANG	Southern University of Science and Technology
Jan 25, Thu	10:00 AM	Bridging the Gap: Strategies for Translating AI Research Findings to Industrial Sectors	Professor Dmitry Mikhaylov	Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy
Jan 17, Wed	10:00 AM	Computational Image Formation: Simulators in the Deep Learning Era	Professor Stanley CHAN	Purdue University

 

Semester A - 2023/24

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Dec 7, Thu	10:00 AM	Simple Bias In Deep Learning	Dr Zhi-Qin XU	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
Dec 6, Wed	4:00 PM	Data and AI Markets: Grand Opportunities for Facilitating Sharing, Discovery, and Integration in Data and AI Economies	Professor Jian PEI	Duke University
Dec 4, Mon	2:30 PM	Stability of First-order Methods in Tame Optimization	Mr Lexiao LAI	Columbia University
Nov 30, Thu	3:00 PM	Learning Theory for Non-Euclidean Machine Learning	Dr Atsushi SUZUKI	King's College London
Nov 29, Wed	10:30 AM	Scientific Machine Learning for the Electro-Chemo-Mechanics in Solid-State Batteries	Dr Juner ZHU	Northeastern University
Nov 28, Tue	11:00 AM	Learning for Networks: Tackling Switching Costs and Decomposition	Professor Xiaojun LIN	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Nov 22, Wed	10:00 AM	AIoT for Safer, Healthier, and Smarter Environments	Professor Xiaofan JIANG	Columbia University
Nov 15, Wed	10:00 AM	On Excess Risk Convergence Rates of Neural Network Classifiers	Professor Xiaoming HUO	Georgia Tech
Oct 25, Wed	10:00 AM	Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics for Offshore Wind Energy: Uncertainty, Quality, and Reliability	Dr Ahmed Aziz Ezzat	Rutgers University
Oct 11, Wed	10:00 AM	AI-enabled Differentiable Methods for Computer-aided Design and Engineering	Professor Jingrun CHEN	University of Science and Technology of China
Oct 4, Wed	10:00 AM	Cross Domain Pattern Recognition with Deep Neural Nets	Dr Jiahong CHEN	University of British Columbia(UBC)
Sep 27, Wed	2:00 PM	Rethinking the Optimization Techniques for Real-Time Systems	Dr Haibo ZENG	University of California at Berkeley

 

Summer Term - 2022/23

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Jul 18, Mon	1:00 PM	PHM of Complex Engineering Systems – Methods and Applications	Professor Yan-Fu LI	Tsinghua University
Jun 13, Tue	9:15 AM	The Evolution and Future of Generative Al: From GAN s to GPT -like Models in Computer Vision	Dr Harry (Chao) YANG	University of Southern California

 

Semester B - 2022/23

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Apr 24, Mon	9:00 AM	Robust Machine Learning in Biometric Recognition	Dr Chun Pong LAU	Johns Hopkins University
Apr 4, Tue	10:00 AM	Machine Learning-based Lifetime Prediction and Charging Optimization of Lithium-ion Batteries	Prof Richard D. BRAATZ	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mar 24, Fri	9:30 AM	Towards Intelligent Decision-making with Guaranteed Trustworthiness	Mr Jianyi YANG	University of California, Riverside
Mar 17, Fri	3:30 PM	The Role of Over-Parameterization in Machine Learning - A Function Space Perspective	Dr Fanghui LIU	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Mar 8, Wed	10:00 AM	Modeling and Active Learning for Experiments with Quantitative-Sequence Factors	Prof Xinwei DENG	Virginia Tech
Mar 6, Mon	9:00 AM	Neyman-Pearson and Equal Opportunity: When Efficiency Meets Fairness in Classification	Mr Shunan YAO	University of Southern California
Feb 28, Tue	9:30 AM	When AI meets Spatio-Temporal Data: Concepts, Methodologies, and Applications	Mr Yuxuan LIANG	National University of Singapore
Feb 22, Wed	10:00 AM	AI-EDGE: Designing Future XG Networks and Distributed Intelligence	Prof Ness B. SHROFF	The Ohio State University
Feb 22, Wed	8:50 AM	Local Perspectives in Networks: Partial Information in Latent Space Models and Local Community Detection	Ms Lijia WANG	University of Southern California
Feb 15, Wed	10:00 AM	Robust Satisficing	Prof Melvyn SIM	National University of Singapore
Feb 8, Wed	10:00 AM	Traffic Flow Modeling, Control and Optimization in a Connected Environment	Professor Petros IOANNOU	University of Southern California
Jan 31, Tue	9:30 AM	Data-informed Models and Insights on Human-centric Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Planning and Demand Management	Dr Wei WEI	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Jan 18, Wed	10:00 AM	Towards Trustworthy Learning and Reasoning under Noisy Data	Prof Bo HAN	Hong Kong Baptist University
Jan 17, Tue	2:30 PM	Intelligent and Immersive Data Space: Efficiency and Privacy	Dr Pengyuan ZHOU	USTC
Jan 11, Wed	10:00 AM	Wide Area Grid Edge Monitoring and Applications	Prof Yilu LIU	University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jan 9, Mon	9:30 AM	Data-Driven Decision Making with Safety Guarantee	Mr Haoming SHEN	University of Michigan

 

 

Semester A - 2022/23

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Dec 14, Wed	10:00 AM	No Equations, No Variables, No Space, No Time: Data and the Modeling of Complex Systems	Prof Yannis G. KEVREKIDIS	Johns Hopkins University
Dec 7, Wed	10:00 AM	Differentiable Programming for Modeling and Control of Energy Systems	Dr Draguna VRABIE	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nov 23, Wed	10:00 AM	A Multi-Scale Energy Systems Engineering Approach Towards Optimal Energy, Mobility, Process & Materials Transition Strategies	Prof Stratos PISTIKOPOULOS	Texas A&M University
Nov 16, Wed	10:00 AM	Machine Learning for Precision Medicine	Professor Martin ESTER	Simon Fraser University
Oct 26, Wed	10:00 AM	Battle Type 1 Diabetes with Data Analytics: Rule-based Methods and Collaborative Learning	Professor Shuai HUANG	University of Washington
Oct 12, Wed	10:00 AM	Public Health Data Science, Wearable Devices, and Functional Data Analysis	Professor Jeff GOLDSMITH	Columbia University
Oct 5, Wed	10:00 AM	Approximation Theory of Deep Learning for Sequence Modelling	Professor Qianxiao LI	National University of Singapore
Sep 16, Fri	2:30 PM	Structure-Adaptive and Data-Driven Large-Scale Optimization	Dr Junqi TANG	University of Cambridge

 

Summer Term - 2021/22

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Aug 17, Wed	9:00 AM	Towards Efficient and Robust NLP Systems	Mr Yuxiang WU	University College London
Aug 3, Wed	10:00 AM	Learning and Optimization in Power Transmission Systems: Paving the Road to Sustainable Energy	Dr Terrence W.K. MAK	ARPA-E of the U.S. Department of Energy

 

Semester B - 2021/22

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Apr 27, Wed	11:00 AM	Learning and Control in Power Distribution Grids	Prof Steven LOW	California Institute of Technology
Apr 26, Tue	10:00 AM	Data-drive Specialization towards Intelligent Internet of Things	Dr Zimu ZHOU	Singapore Management University
Mar 23, Wed	10:00 AM	Graph Computing for Quantum Chemistry and Physics	Prof Shuiwang JI	Texas A&M University
Mar 14, Mon	10:00 AM	Data-driven Battery Science: Elucidating The Mechanisms Of The Battery Degradation With Synchrotron X-ray Techniques	Dr Jizhou LI	Stanford University
Mar 8, Tue	10:00 AM	Knockoff Statistics for Variable Selection in Genetic Association Studies with Trio Design	Dr Yi YANG	Columbia University
Feb 23, Wed	10:00 AM	From Digital to Universal Manufacturing	Professor Andrew KUSIAK	University of Iowa
Feb 22, Tue	10:00 AM	Deep Neural Networks Explainability: Algorithms and Applications	Dr Mengnan DU	Texas A&M University
Feb 16, Wed	10:00 AM	The Euler Characteristic: A General Topological Descriptor for Complex Data	Professor Victor M. ZAVALA	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 26, Wed	10:00 AM	The Interplay between Learning and Control in Zeroth-order Methods	Professor Na LI	Harvard University
Jan 19, Wed	10:00 AM	Signal and Data Science for Physiological Forensics	Professor Min WU	University of Maryland

 

Semester A - 2021/22

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Dec 15, Wed	10:00 AM	Biostatistical methods for wearable devices with applications to NHANES and UK Biobank	Professor Ciprian CRAINICEANU	Johns Hopkins University
Dec 8, Wed	10:00 AM	Machine Learning for Sparse Nonlinear Modeling and Control	Professor Steven L. BRUNTON	University of Washington
Nov 24, Wed	10:00 AM	Scalable, Heterogeneity-Aware and Privacy-Enhancing Federated Learning	Professor Yiran CHEN	Duke University
Nov 17, Wed	10:00 AM	Divide-and-Conquer: A Distributed Hierarchical Factor Approach to Modeling Large-Scale Time Series Data	Professor Ruey S. TSAY	University of Chicago
Nov 10, Wed	10:00 AM	Solving High-Dimensional Control Problems with Deep Learning	Dr Jiequn HAN	Princeton University / Flatiron Institute
Nov 3, Wed	10:00 AM	Adversarial Deep Learning in Digital Image Forensics	Professor Jane WANG	University of British Columbia
Oct 27, Wed	9:00 AM	Toward Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Machine Learning	Professor Leslie YING	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY)
Oct 20, Wed	10:00 AM	Advances in Nonlinear Mixed-integer and Generalized Disjunctive Programming and Applications to the Optimization of Engineering Systems	Professor Ignacio E. GROSSMANN	Carnegie Mellon University
Oct 13, Wed	10:00 AM	High Dimensional Dynamic Covariance Matrices with Homogeneous Structure	Professor Wenyang ZHANG	University of York
Oct 6, Wed	10:00 AM	White-Box Deep (Convolution) Networks from First Principles	Professor Yi MA	University of California, Berkeley
Sep 29, Wed	4:00 PM	Climate, Carbon and Computer Science	Professor Srinivasan KESHAV	University of Cambridge
Sep 28, Wed	10:00 AM	Uncertainty Quantification: Data Science for Working in the Uncertain World	Professor Peter CHIEN	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sep 15, Wed	3:00 PM	HKIAS Rising Star Lecture	Professor Junhui WANG Dr Pierre NOLIN Dr Xianpeng HU	City University of Hong Kong
Sep 15, Wed	10:00 AM	Dynamics-based Data Science	Professor Luonan CHEN	Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sep 8, Wed	10:00 AM	Robustness in Process Data Analytics	Professor Biao HUANG	University of Alberta