Past events

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

2025

Mr. Li Zelin

Mr. Li Zelin

Tuesday, 28 October 2025 17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

PhD Student, CIMDA 

Title: Image Enhancement, 3D Segmentation and Quantitative Analysis for Live Cells  

Alireza Naderi

Alireza Naderi

Tuesday,14 October 2025 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postgraduate Student, Maths Institute, Oxford University

Title: Mind the Gap: a Spectral Analysis of Rank Collapse and Signal Propagation in Attention Layers

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Cancelled

Tuesday, 23 September 2025 - Seminar cancelled due to adverse weather conditions in Hong Kong 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

mike giles

Prof Mike Giles

Tuesday, 9 September 2025 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Professor of Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Title: Optimisation of Multilevel Monte Carlo on FPGAs
 

dr renjie xu

Dr Renjie Xu

Tuesday, 10 June 2025 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

QR Decomposition of Dual Matrices and its Applications

lingyi yang

Dr Lingyi Yang

Tuesday, 27 May 2025 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Turing Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Anomaly detection for streamed data

dr xueke tong

Dr Xueke Tong

Tuesday, 13 May 2025 16:00–17:00 HK | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

Efficient Subset Pre-Training to Reduce Deep Network Training Time

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Mr Benjamin Walker

Tue 29 April 2025 16:00–17:00 HK | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Linear Neural Controlled Differential Equations

2024

maud lemercier

Dr Maud Lemercier

Tue 4 June 2024 16:00–17:00 HK | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Research Fellow Oxford University & Alan Turing Institute

A High Order Solver for Signature Kernels

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Dr Mengxu Zhu

Tue 21 May 2024 16:00–17:00 HK | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

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

jason rader

Mr Jason Rader

Tue 7 May 2024 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

PhD student, Mathematical Institute, Oxford

Optimistix: a JAX library for nonlinear optimisation

huang zhaoke

Dr Zhaoke Huang

Tue 23 April 2024 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

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

cheng liu

Professor Cheng Liu

Tue 19 March 2024 17:00–18:00 HKT | 10:00–11:00 GMT

Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering

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

2023

jad mounayer

Jad Mounayer

Tue 12 December 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

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

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

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Dr Hanxiao Zhang

Tue 28 November 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

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

lingyi yang

Dr Lingyi Yang

Tue 14 November 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

CIMDA and Turing postdoctoral fellow, Oxford                                                                   Economic nowcasting with signatures    

zhe wang

Dr Zhe Wang

Tue 31 October 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

Diagnostics, Prognostics and Health Management With Deep Learning Technique      

hong ye

Hong Ye Tan

Tue 17 October 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Doctoral student, Cantab Institute, University of Cambridge

Data-driven Optimization via Mirror Descent

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Dr Xueke Tong

Tue 3 October 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA 

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

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Dr Paz Fink Shustin

Tue 19 September 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Hooke Fellow, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University

Scalable Gaussian Process Regression with Quadrature-based Features

xinyue li

Prof. Xinyue Li

Tue 5 September 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, City University

Statistical Methods for Wearable Sensor Data Analysis in Population Studies

mohamed ibrahim

Professor Mohamed Ibrahim

Tue 11 July 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Lecturer, University of Leeds

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Dr Hiu Tung Wong

Tue 27 June 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

On Efficient Human Token Identification for Pose Estimation 

weixin yang

Dr Weixin Yang

Tue 6 June 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

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

Path Recovery from Signatures

dr mehdi memar ardestani

Dr Mehdi Memar Ardestani

Tue 23 May 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

Motion Capture Data Feature Extraction and Classification

ben walker

Mr Benjamin Walker

Wed 10 May 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postgraduate researcher (CIMDA), University of Oxford

Neural Controlled Differential Equations: The Log ODE Method

dr chong wu

Dr Chong Wu

Tue 18 April 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

Superpixel Models for Image Analysis and Computer Vision

yang liu

Dr Yang Liu

Tue 21 March 2023 17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

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

Newton-MR methods for nonconvex optimization

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Dr Maolin Che

Tue 28 February 2023 17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

An Efficient Randomized Algorithm for Computing the Approximate Tucker Decomposition

darrick lee

Dr Darrick Lee

Tue 14 February 2023 17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral researcher (CIMDA), University of Oxford

Capturing Graphs with Hypo-Elliptic Diffusions

2022

kate wenqi zhu

Ms Kate Zhu

Tue 20 December 2022 17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

CIMDA PhD student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Tensor methods for nonconvex optimization

karl welzel

Mr Karl Welzel

Tue 20 December 2022 17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

CIMDA PhD student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Generalising Quasi-Newton Updates to Higher Dimensions

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Dr Yixuan Yuan

Tue 6 December 2022 17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

AI in Medical Image Analysis: Challenges and Solutions

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Prof. Raymond Chan

Tue 22 November 2022 17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics, CityU

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

weixin yang

Dr Weixin Yang

Tue 8 November 2022 (cancelled) 17:00–18:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT

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

Path Recovery from Signatures

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Mr Yibing Liu

Tue 25 October 2022 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 BST

PhD student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Rethinking Attention-Model Explainability via Faithfulness Violation Test

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Mr Yibing Liu

Tue 11 October 2022 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 BST

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Topological data analysis

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Prof. Moshe Zukerman

Tue 20 September 2022 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 BST

Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

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

jiayu shang

Jiayu Shang

Wed 22 June 2022 16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Bacteriophage Classification for Assembled Contigs Using Graph Convolutional Network

James Morrill

James Morrill

Wed 22 June 2022 16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

DPhil student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Choice of control signal for Neural CDEs

xiaohan xing

Xiaohan Xing

Tue 7 June 2022 16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

Former PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

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

estelle massart

Dr Estelle Massart

Tue 7 June 2022 16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

University of Louvain and University of Oxford

Coordinate descent on the orthogonal group for recurrent neural network training

frank fan

Frank Fan

Wed 25 May 2022 16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Human Facial Behavior Analysis Based on Deep Learning

mike giles

Prof. Mike Giles

Wed 25 May 2022 16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

Head of Department, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Multilevel Monte Carlo and reduced precision arithmetic

dr chan kwok leung

Dr Kwok Leung Chan

Tue 10 May 2022 16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

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

constantin puiu

Constantin Puiu

Tue 10 May 2022 16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

DPhil student, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Rethinking Exponential Averaging of the Fisher

xubo tang

Xubo Tang

Wed 27 April 2022 16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Sensitive RNA Virus Read Binning Using Learning-Based Models

giuseppe ughi

Dr Giuseppe Ughi

Wed 27 April 2022 16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

CIMDA-Oxford postdoc, University of Oxford

Mutual Information of Random Neural Networks

prof xie min

Prof. Min Xie

Tue 12 April 2022 16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

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

Modelling and Data Analysis of Safety and Reliability of Intelligent Systems

elena gal

Dr Elena Gal

Tue 12 April 2022 16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

CIMDA-Oxford postdoc, University of Oxford

Addressing Bias to Improve Performance

qin tiexin

Tiexin Qin

Wed 30 March 2022 16:00–16:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 BST

PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

The Study of Data Augmentation Based Few-shot Learning Algorithms

raphael hauser

Prof. Raphael Hauser

Wed 30 March 2022 16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

Professor of Numerical Mathematics, University of Oxford

Quantifying the Estimation Error of Principal Component Vectors

prof sam kwong

Prof. Sam Kwong

Tue 15 March 2022 17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science, CityU

Intelligent Video Coding by Data-driven Techniques and Learning Models

jared tanner

Prof. Jared Tanner

Tue 15 March 2022 17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Professor of Mathematics of Information, University of Oxford

Activation function design for deep networks: linearity and effective initialisation

dr ray cheung

Dr Ray Cheung

Wed 2 March 2022 17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Hardware Methods for Efficient Function Approximation

darrick lee

Dr Darrick Lee

Wed 2 March 2022 17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Postdoctoral researcher EPFL and CIMDA-Oxford postdoc from Aug 2022

Representation of Dynamic Topological Features using Path Signatures

ali raza shahid

Ali Raza Shahid

Tue 15 February 2022 17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

PhD Student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

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

terry lyons

Prof. Terry Lyons FLSW FRSE FRS

Tue 15 February 2022 17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Wallis Professor Emeritus and Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford

Rough paths and streamed data – current challenges

2021

hong yan

Prof. Hong Yan

Tue 7 Dec 2021 17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Chair Professor of Computer Engineering, CityU

Tensor Decomposition: Existing Methods and Open Problems

coralia cartis

Prof. Coralia Cartis

Tue 7 Dec 2021 17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Tensor methods for optimization problems

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Dr Jianfeng Cao

Wed 24 November 2021 17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Former PhD Student at CityU

Deciphering the Contents of Microscopic Cell Images based on Deep Learning

andrew wathen

Prof. Andrew Wathen

Wed 24 November 2021 17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Professor of Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford

Periodic approximation for evolutionary differential equations

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Dr Haoliang Li

Tue 9 November 2021 17:00–17:30 HKT | 09:00–09:30 GMT

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Towards Better Generalized Visual Recognition Algorithms for Real-world Challenges

harald oberhauser

Prof. Harald Oberhauser

Tue 9 November 2021 17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Stochastic Processes, Signatures, Tensors and some Algorithms