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Past events

To attend CIMDA-Oxford seminars, please contact coralia.cartis@maths.ac.uk                                                                                                  

 

Tue 21 May 2024

16:00–17:00 HK | 09:00–10:00 GMT

 

 

Structural Analysis of Protein Mutants to study Their Roles in Drug Resistance

Dr Mengxu Zhu, Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA
 

 

 

Tue 7 May 2024

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

jason rader

 

Optimistix: a JAX library for nonlinear optimisation

Mr Jason Rader, PhD student, Mathematical Institute, Oxford

 

Tue 23 April 2024

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

huang zhaoke

Dr Zhaoke Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

Learning Dynamic Patterns of Cell Movement During C. Elegans Embryogenesis Using Geometric Deep Learning            

 
Tue 19 March 2024

17:00–18:00 HKT | 10:00–11:00 GMT

cheng liu

Professor Cheng Liu

Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering

 

Physics-guided Deep Learning for Damage Detection in CFRP Composite Structures                                                                                                                                                                           

   
Tue 12 December 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

jad mounayer

 

Jad Mounayer

MSc student, Mathematical Institute, Oxford (funded by Roche)

 

Using Neural CDEs to capture trends within real-world irregular time series                                                                                                                                                                               

 


Tue 28 November 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

 

 

Dr Hanxiao Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

 

The Distributionally Robust Mean-Cvar Optimization for Weighted Traveling Repairman Problem With Depots Sharing and Diverse-Skilled Technician                                                         

Tue 14 November 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

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Dr Lingyi Yang

CIMDA and Turing postdoctoral fellow, Oxford                                                                                                        

 

Economic nowcasting with signatures                                                                                                                                                                                                               

 

Tue 31 October 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

zhe wang

 

Dr Zhe Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA
 

Diagnostics, Prognostics and Health Management With Deep Learning Technique                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 
Tue 17 October 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

hong ye

 

Hong Ye Tan

Doctoral student, Cantab Institute, University of Cambridge
 

Data-driven Optimization via Mirror Descent                                                          

   
Tue 3 October 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

 

 

Dr Xueke Tong

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA                                 

 

A New Understanding on the Tensor Tucker Format: From Optimization to Bayesian Model

   
Tue 19 September 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

 

 

Dr Paz Fink Shustin 

Hooke Fellow, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University

 

Scalable Gaussian Process Regression with Quadrature-based Features

 

   
Tue 5 September 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

xinyue li

 

Prof. Xinyue Li

Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, City University

 

Statistical Methods for Wearable Sensor Data Analysis in Population Studies
 

   
Tue 11 July 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

mohamed ibrahim

Professor Mohamed Ibrahim

Lecturer, University of Leeds                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Tue 27 June 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

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 Dr Hiu Tung Wong

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

On Efficient Human Token Identification for Pose Estimation                                                                                                                                                                   

 
Tue 6 June 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

                                                              

weixin yang

Dr Weixin Yang

Dr Weixin Yang, Postdoctoral researcher (DataSıg), University of Oxford                                                                                                                                                                

Path Recovery from Signatures                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 
Tue 23 May 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

dr mehdi memar ardestani

Dr Mehdi Memar Ardestani

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

Motion Capture Data Feature Extraction and Classification

Wed 10 May 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

ben walker

Mr Benjamin Walker

Postgraduate researcher (CIMDA), University of Oxford

Neural Controlled Differential Equations: The Log ODE Method

Tue 18 April 2023

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

dr chong wu

Dr Chong Wu

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

Superpixel Models for Image Analysis and Computer Vision

Tue 21 March 2023

17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

yang liu

Dr Yang Liu

Postdoctoral researcher (CIMDA), University of Oxford
Currently postdoc at CUHK (Shenzen)

Newton-MR methods for nonconvex optimization

Tue 28 February 2023

17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

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Dr Maolin Che

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

An Efficient Randomized Algorithm for Computing the Approximate Tucker Decomposition

Tue 14 February 2023

17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

darrick lee

Dr Darrick Lee

Postdoctoral researcher (CIMDA), University of Oxford

Capturing Graphs with Hypo-Elliptic Diffusions

Tue 20 December 2022

17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

kate wenqi zhu

17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Ms Kate Zhu

CIMDA PhD student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Tensor methods for nonconvex optimization

karl welzel

17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Mr Karl Welzel

CIMDA PhD student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Generalising Quasi-Newton Updates to Higher Dimensions

Tue 6 December 2022

17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

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Dr Yixuan Yuan

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

AI in Medical Image Analysis: Challenges and Solutions

Tue 22 November 2022

17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

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Prof. Raymond Chan

Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics, CityU

A 3-stage Spectral-spatial Method for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Tue 8 November 2022 (cancelled)

17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

weixin yang

Dr Weixin Yang

Dr Weixin Yang, Postdoctoral researcher (DataSıg), Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Path Recovery from Signatures

Tue 25 October 2022

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 BST

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Mr Yibing Liu

PhD student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Rethinking Attention-Model Explainability via Faithfulness Violation Test

Tue 11 October 2022

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 BST

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Prof. Vidit Nanda

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Topological data analysis

Tue 20 September 2022

16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 BST

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Prof. Moshe Zukerman

Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Internet Cable Path Planning: The Challenge in Making a Real-world Impact

Wed 22 June 2022

16:00 HKT | 09:00 BST

jiayu shang

16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

Jiayu Shang

PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Bacteriophage Classification for Assembled Contigs Using Graph Convolutional Network

James Morrill

16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

James Morrill

DPhil student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Choice of control signal for Neural CDEs

Tue 7 June 2022

16:00 HKT | 09:00 BST

xiaohan xing

16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

Xiaohan Xing

Former PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

A Study on Data Characteristics-based Efficient Deep Learning Algorithms for Disease Diagnosis

estelle massart

16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

Dr Estelle Massart

University of Louvain and University of Oxford

Coordinate descent on the orthogonal group for recurrent neural network training

Wed 25 May 2022

16:00 HKT | 09:00 BST

frank fan

16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

Frank Fan

PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Human Facial Behavior Analysis Based on Deep Learning

mike giles

16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

Prof. Mike Giles

Head of Department, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Multilevel Monte Carlo and reduced precision arithmetic

Tue 10 May 2022

16:00 HKT | 09:00 BST

dr chan kwok leung

16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

Dr Kwok Leung Chan

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Two-branch Unit and Temporal Gating: A Deep Architecture for Human Motion Recognition

constantin puiu

16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

Constantin Puiu

DPhil student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Rethinking Exponential Averaging of the Fisher

Wed 27 April 2022

16:00 HKT | 09:00 BST

xubo tang

16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

Xubo Tang

PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Sensitive RNA Virus Read Binning Using Learning-Based Models

giuseppe ughi

16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

Dr Giuseppe Ughi

CIMDA-Oxford postdoc, University of Oxford

Mutual Information of Random Neural Networks

Tue 12 April 2022

16:00 HKT | 09:00 BST

prof xie min

16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

Prof. Min Xie

Chair Professor, Department of Advanced Design and Systems Engineering, CityU

Modelling and Data Analysis of Safety and Reliability of Intelligent Systems

elena gal

16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

Dr Elena Gal

CIMDA-Oxford postdoc, University of Oxford

Addressing Bias to Improve Performance

Wed 30 March 2022

16:00 HKT | 09:00 BST

qin tiexin

16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

Tiexin Qin

PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

The Study of Data Augmentation Based Few-shot Learning Algorithms

raphael hauser

16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

Prof. Raphael Hauser

Professor of Numerical Mathematics, University of Oxford

Quantifying the Estimation Error of Principal Component Vectors

Tue 15 March 2022

17:00 HKT | 09:00 GMT

prof sam kwong

17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Prof. Sam Kwong

Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science, CityU

Intelligent Video Coding by Data-driven Techniques and Learning Models

jared tanner

17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Prof. Jared Tanner

Professor of Mathematics of Information, University of Oxford

Activation function design for deep networks: linearity and effective initialisation

Wed 2 March 2022

17:00 HKT | 09:00 GMT

dr ray cheung

17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Dr Ray Cheung

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Hardware Methods for Efficient Function Approximation

darrick lee

17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Dr Darrick Lee

Postdoctoral researcher EPFL and CIMDA-Oxford postdoc from Aug 2022

Representation of Dynamic Topological Features using Path Signatures

Tue 15 February 2022

17:00 HKT | 09:00 GMT

ali raza shahid

17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Ali Raza Shahid

PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Contour and Region Harmonic Features for Sub-local Facial Expression Recognition

terry lyons

17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Prof. Terry Lyons FLSW FRSE FRS

Wallis Professor Emeritus and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford

Rough paths and streamed data – current challenges

Tue 7 Dec 2021

17:00 HKT | 09:00 GMT

hong yan

17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Prof. Hong Yan

Chair Professor of Computer Engineering, CityU

Tensor Decomposition: Existing Methods and Open Problems

coralia cartis

17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Prof. Coralia Cartis

Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Tensor methods for optimization problems

Wed 24 November 2021

17:00 HKT | 09:00 GMT

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17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Dr Jianfeng Cao

Former PhD Student at CityU

Deciphering the Contents of Microscopic Cell Images based on Deep Learning

andrew wathen

17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Prof. Andrew Wathen

Professor of Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford

Periodic approximation for evolutionary differential equations

Tue 9 November 2021

17:00 HKT | 09:00 GMT

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17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Dr Haoliang Li

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Towards Better Generalized Visual Recognition Algorithms for Real-world Challenges

harald oberhauser

17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Prof. Harald Oberhauser

Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Stochastic Processes, Signatures, Tensors and some Algorithms