Past events
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2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Professor Mohamed Ibrahim
Tue 11 July 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT
Lecturer, University of Leeds
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
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
Tue 23 May 2023 16:00–17:00 HKT | 09:00–10:00 GMT
Postdoctoral Fellow, CIMDA
Motion Capture Data Feature Extraction and Classification
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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