Past events

Professor Cheng Liu

Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering

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

Jad Mounayer

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

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

Dr Hanxiao Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

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

Dr Lingyi Yang

CIMDA and Turing postdoctoral fellow, Oxford                                                                                                        

Economic nowcasting with signatures                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Dr Zhe Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA
 

Diagnostics, Prognostics and Health Management With Deep Learning Technique                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Hong Ye Tan

Doctoral student, Cantab Institute, University of Cambridge
 

Data-driven Optimization via Mirror Descent                                                          

Dr Xueke Tong

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA                                 

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

Dr Paz Fink Shustin 

Hooke Fellow, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University

Scalable Gaussian Process Regression with Quadrature-based Features

Prof. Xinyue Li

Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, City University

Statistical Methods for Wearable Sensor Data Analysis in Population Studies
 

Professor Mohamed Ibrahim

Lecturer, University of Leeds                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

 Dr Hiu Tung Wong

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

On Efficient Human Token Identification for Pose Estimation                                                                                                                                                                   

Dr Weixin Yang

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

Path Recovery from Signatures                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Dr Mehdi Memar Ardestani

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

Motion Capture Data Feature Extraction and Classification

Mr Benjamin Walker

Postgraduate researcher (CIMDA), University of Oxford

Neural Controlled Differential Equations: The Log ODE Method

Dr Chong Wu

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

Superpixel Models for Image Analysis and Computer Vision

Dr Yang Liu

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

Newton-MR methods for nonconvex optimization

Dr Maolin Che

Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA

An Efficient Randomized Algorithm for Computing the Approximate Tucker Decomposition

Dr Darrick Lee

Postdoctoral researcher (CIMDA), University of Oxford

Capturing Graphs with Hypo-Elliptic Diffusions

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

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

Dr Yixuan Yuan

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

AI in Medical Image Analysis: Challenges and Solutions

Prof. Raymond Chan

Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics, CityU

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

Dr Weixin Yang

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

Path Recovery from Signatures

Mr Yibing Liu

PhD student, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

Rethinking Attention-Model Explainability via Faithfulness Violation Test

Prof. Vidit Nanda

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Topological data analysis

Prof. Moshe Zukerman

Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, CityU

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16:30–17:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 BST

Dr Elena Gal

CIMDA-Oxford postdoc, University of Oxford

Addressing Bias to Improve Performance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17:30–18:00 HKT | 09:30–10:00 GMT

Prof. Coralia Cartis

Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Tensor methods for optimization problems

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

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

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

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