Schedule
(Updated as of April 24, 2025)
Important notes:
| 1. | This workshop will be held in face-to-face mode. |
| 2. | Unauthorized recording of any session is prohibited. |
| 3. | Please obtain the consent from the speaker concerned for any adaptation/sharing of his/her presentation materials. |
| Should you have further enquiries, please feel free to contact the secretariat by email at ias@ust.hk. | |
Venue: Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
April 29, 2025 (Tue)
Time
Event
| 09:30 - 09:35 |
Opening Remarks Che Ting CHAN (Interim Director of HKUST IAS; Daniel C K Yu Professor of Science) |
| 09:35 - 10:00 |
S1-#1: Learning Turbulence from MATH and DATA Lin FU (Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and of Mathematics, HKUST) |
| 10:00 - 10:25 |
S1-#2: Applications of AI Agents in Vertical Domains Kani CHEN (Professor of Mathematics, and of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, HKUST) |
| 10:25 - 10:50 |
S1-#3: AI for Molecular Subtyping of Brain Tumor Jiguang WANG (Padma Harilela Associate Professor of Life Science, HKUST) |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Coffee Break (G/F Lobby, IAS) |
| 11:10 - 11:35 |
S2-#1: When AI Meets Physics Junwei LIU (Associate Professor of Physics, HKUST) |
| 11:35 - 12:00 |
S2-#2: Unlock the Power of AI for Spatial Transcriptomics Data Analysis Can YANG (Dr Tai-chin Lo Associate Professor of Science, HKUST) |
| 12:00 - 12:25 |
S2-#3: AlloyVAE: A Generative Model for Composition Engineering in MPEAs Yang XIANG (Professor of Mathematics, HKUST) |
| 12:25 - 14:00 | Lunch (Invited Speakers only; 5/F Lounge, IAS) |
| 14:00 - 14:25 |
S3-#1: Exploring Auditory Mechanotransduction and the Role of AI in Advancing Research Pingbo HUANG (Professor of Life Science, and of Chemical and Biological Engineering, HKUST) |
| 14:25 - 14:50 |
S3-#2: Riemannian AdaGrad for Finding Low-Rank Weights in Deep Neural Networks Jianfeng CAI (Professor of Mathematics, HKUST) |
| 14:50 - 15:15 |
S3-#3: Machine Eye for Topological Defects Rui ZHANG (Assistant Professor of Physics, HKUST) |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Coffee Break (G/F Lobby, IAS) |
| 15:35 - 16:00 |
S4-#1: Harnessing Machine Learning in the Chemical and Biological Realm Haibin SU (Associate Professor of Chemistry, HKUST) |
| 16:00 - 16:25 |
S4-#2: First-principles Statistical Mechanics and Machine Learning Ding PAN (Associate Professor of Physics, and of Chemistry, HKUST) |
| 16:25 - 16:50 |
S4-#3: Advancing Weather and Climate Predictions with Deep Learning Xiaoming SHI (Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, HKUST) |
| 16:50 - 16:55 |
Closing Remarks |