School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Data Science Seminar

This seminar series is hosted by EECS Data Science.

Contacts

Dr Zijian Wang
Seminar Coordinator 2026

Proportionally Fair Clustering

26 August 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Professor Haris Aziz, UNSW Sydney

Physics-grounded Dynamic Reconstruction for Sim-to-Real Articulated Manipulation

24 August 2026 1:30pm
 
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Speaker: Longpeng Xu

Metabolomics Data Analysis in Traditional Chinese Medicine

19 August 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Professor Qing Ye, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

TREC AutoJudge: A Meta-Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Evaluation Methodologies

29 July 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Maik Fröbe, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

Towards Autonomous Multimodal LLMs: From Passive Perception to Proactive Understanding

22 July 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Zhuojie Wu

Reliable reinforcement learning for complex robot control under real-world constraints

13 July 2026 10:30am
 
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Speaker: Humphrey Munn

Retrieval Plans for Search Engines

9 July 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Professor Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow)

Inclusive Multimodal Understanding for People with Disabilities

3 July 2026 4:30pm
 
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Speaker: Yan Ke

Empowering Human-Centric Understanding with MLLMs: From Single View to Multi-View

29 June 2026 4:00pm
 
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Speaker: Tianchen Guo

Human-Centric Multimodal AI for Motion Understanding and Reasoning

29 June 2026 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Houke Zhao

Beyond the Complete-Body Prior: Towards Robust Human Perception under Severe Occlusions and Atypical Topologies

26 June 2026 3:00pm
 
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Speaker: Qingzheng Xu

Entity Alignment for Temporal Knowledge Graphs

23 June 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Jiayun Li

Toward Efficient Lightweight Recommender Systems

19 June 2026 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Jason Xurong Liang

Lessons from >25 Years at School

17 June 2026 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Joel Mackenzie

Graph Learning under Distribution Shift: From Continual Learning to Zero-shot Reasoning

11 June 2026 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Yilun Liu

Agentic Agricultural Assistant with Vision-Language Models

11 June 2026 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Boyu Luo

2026 UQ AI HDR Showcase

10 June 2026 9:00am–11 June 2026 4:00pm
 
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Host: UQ AI Research Network

Efficient Remote Sensing under Real-world Constraints

9 June 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Yiyun Zhang

When Does AI Earn a Doctor's Trust?

3 June 2026 12:00pm
 
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Speaker: Professor Patrick Mikalef, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Towards Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding

26 May 2026 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Djamahl Etchegaray

AetherDialect: Towards a Deterministic Text-to-SQL

6 May 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speakers: Dr. Roozbeh Derakhshan, Akul Ameya and Charlotte Birkinshaw (Data & Knowledge Enterprise, Brisbane)

Toward Data-Driven Handheld Fundus Videos Analysis

27 April 2026 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Hongwei Sheng

Structure-Aware Legal Case Retrieval

24 April 2026 12:30pm
 
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Speaker: Yanran Tang

Research Philosophy: Publishing Influential Research in AI‑Security

15 April 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong

Beyond the Surface: How Post-Training Artifacts Shape LLM Diversity and Safety

8 April 2026 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Prof Weiyan Shi (Northeastern University, USA)

Modelling the Effect of Large Language Model Agents on Online Decision-Making

1 April 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Shangqian Li

OpenClaw-RL: Train Any Agent Simply by Talking

31 March 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Yinjie Wang (UChicago & Princeton, USA)

Advancing Semantic ID-based Generative Recommendation

25 March 2026 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Shutong Qiao

Simulating Real Users with State Alignment

24 March 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Evelyn Hejin Choi (Stanford University, USA)

Robust Collaborative Learning with Data Silos

24 March 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Achmad Ginanjar

Value Capture from Enterprise AI

24 March 2026 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Nova Sepadyati

Understanding and Improving LLM-Based Relevance Judgements for Retrieval Ranking and Evaluation

18 March 2026 1:30pm
 
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Speaker: Chuting Yu

Learning Open-World Embodied Agents: From Single-Task Generalization to Multi-Skill Composition

17 March 2026 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Zhizhen Zhang

Encrypted Inference for Graph Neural Networks

11 March 2026 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Associate Professor Xingliang Yuan, The University of Melbourne

SIGuard: Guarding Secure Inference with Post Data Privacy

11 March 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Xiaoning (Maggie) Liu, RMIT University

Data Science Seminar Series: Trustworthy Intelligence: Secure Foundations for AI and Data Systems

11 March 2026 1:00pm
 
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The Data Science Discipline is running theme-based EECS Data Science Seminar Series this year.

An Introduction to Machine Learning with Noisy Labels

4 March 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Associate Professor Tongliang Liu, The University of Sydney

Politics, Sense-making and Persuasion: NLP Case studies from Edinburgh’s SMASH research group

19 February 2026 10:30am
 
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Speakers: Sandrine Chausson and Tom Bidewell, University of Edinburgh, UK

Structured Representation Learning for Latent Thinking in LLMs

11 February 2026 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Hanqi Yan (King’s College London, KCL)

Towards Adaptive, Efficient and Scalable Text-to-Video Retrieval System

11 February 2026 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Zecheng Zhao

Fully Transparent German LLM and Encoder Families Trained from Scratch

10 February 2026 9:00am
 
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Speaker: Professor Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany

Political Bias in Large Language Models for Content Moderation: a Persona-based Perspective

28 January 2026 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Stefano Civelli

Reliable Multimodal Recommender Systems

9 January 2026 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Lijian Chen

From Human-Like Reasoning to Memorization Biases: When Should We Align AI Models?

18 December 2025 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Afra Mashhadi (University of Washington Bothell, USA)

Towards Robust End-to-end Autonomous Driving Neural Networks

12 December 2025 11:30am
 
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Speaker: Huitong Yang

Enhancing Plant Phenotyping Accuracy in Sorghum through Analysing Aerial Data

8 December 2025 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Rukshan Karannagoda

Towards Unified Online 3D World Modeling with Vision Foundation Models

25 November 2025 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Fengyi Zhang

What Generators Want from Search: Aligning Retrieval with the Needs of Generative AI

27 October 2025 12:30pm
 
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Speaker: Jonathan Ross

UQ AI Conference Dry Run Seminar Series

13 October 2025 1:00pm
 
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We are delighted to announce the inaugural UQ AI Conference Dry Run Seminar Series, proudly hosted by the UQ Data Science Discipline (School of EECS).

Towards Intelligent and Generalisable Agents for Vision-and-Language Navigation

30 September 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Haodong Hong

Tackling Data Quality Challenges for Causal Effect Estimation

30 September 2025 11:30am
 
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Speaker: Hechuan Wen

Beyond Visual Geometry: Toward Physical 3D Reconstruction

26 September 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof. Chuanxia Zheng, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Data-limited Class Unlearning: from Methodology to Evaluation

15 September 2025 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Chenhao Zhang

Leveraging Personas to Study and Control Ideological Biases in Large Language Models

8 September 2025 3:00pm
 
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Speaker: Pietro Bernardelle

Semantically Aligned Multi-person Image Personalization

28 August 2025 9:00am
 
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Speaker: Longpeng Xu

Nudging High-Accessible Privacy Policy Compliance

21 August 2025 9:30am
 
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Speaker: Baiqi Chen

Human Understanding in Real-World Sports

14 August 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Qingzheng Xu

Effective Visual Data Compression

31 July 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Zhuojie Wu

Robust and Efficient Rumor Detection on Social Media

29 July 2025 12:30pm
 
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Speaker: Wei Jiang

Hybrid global/local optimisation for the design of diverse structures

29 July 2025 10:30am
 
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Speaker: Kurt Enkera

AI-Driven Solutions in Individualised Medicine: From Multimodal Omics Data to Disease Diagnosis and Biomarker Discovery

18 July 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Hamid Alinejad Rokny (UNSW)

Thinking Globally, Testing Locally: Lessons in AI Safety Evaluation from the Polish Perspective

2 July 2025 11:00am
 
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Speaker: A/Prof Szymon Lukasik, AGH University of Krakow, Director of AI Safety Research Center, NASK National Research Institute, Poland

Methods for the Effective Retrieval of Chat Conversations

30 June 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Ismail Sabei

Teach AI What It Doesn't Know

26 June 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Sean (Xuefeng) Du (University of Wisconsin–Madison & incoming Assistant Professor in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Pose Estimation for Human with Disabilities

26 June 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Jiaying Ying

Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Decision-making

24 June 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Yi Zhang

AI-driven Approaches for Effective Systematic Review Literature Screening

24 June 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Xinyu Mao

Empowering Graph Representation Learning at Test-time

23 June 2025 12:00pm
 
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Speaker: Yan Jiang

Lightweight Embedding Table for Recommender Systems

20 June 2025 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Yunke Qu

Towards Efficient Knowledge Reuse from the Perspectives of Data and Models

4 June 2025 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Yuxia Fu

From Single-Modal to Multi-Modal: Towards Efficient AI in Dataset Distillation

4 June 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Bowen Yuan

Effective Detection of Out-of-Distribution Data in Graph Representation Learning

3 June 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Danny Wang

Document-level Relation Extraction from Large-scale Noisy Data

3 June 2025 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Phan Khai Tran

Reasoning with Language Models

29 May 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Nicholas Tomlin (UC Berkeley & Incoming CDS Fellow at NYU & Assistant Professor at TTIC)

Graph Condensation for Real-World Graph Representation at Scale

29 May 2025 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Xinyi Gao

Towards Efficient Novel View Synthesis

23 May 2025 3:00pm
 
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Speaker: Qianyi Wu (Monash University)

Towards Large Generative Recommendation Models: A Tokenization Perspective

22 May 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Yupeng Hou, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Advanced Query Representation and Feedback Methods for Neural Information Retrieval

16 May 2025 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Hang Li

Protocol Learning: Towards True Open-Source AI

17 April 2025 4:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Alexander Long, Amazon

Would prompt work for graph learning? An exploration of few-shot learning on graphs

17 April 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Yuan Fang, Singapore Management University (SMU)

Compressed Video Restoration

15 April 2025 4:30pm
 
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Speaker: Shuyun Wang

Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models

10 April 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Heng Ji (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, UIUC)

Analysis of the behaviour of evolutionary algorithms for variable length problems

10 April 2025 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Saskia Van Ryt

Towards Robust Multimodal Video Retrieval: From Data Representation to Cross-modal Optimization

8 April 2025 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Bingqing Zhang

Towards a Unified Framework for Multi-Modal and Multi-Level Video Temporal Grounding

8 April 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Zhuo Cao

Real-time Analytics on Urban Trajectory Data for Road Traffic Management

2 April 2025 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Zichun Zhu

Human-in-the-Loop Decision Making for Online Safety

28 March 2025 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Bing Tuo

Using Large Language Models for Cross-Language Information Access

28 March 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Professor Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland (USA)

Enhancing the Security of Recommender Systems: Attack and Defence

28 March 2025 11:30am
 
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Speaker: Yuchuan Zhao

Personalized Large Language Model and Deployment on Mobile Devices

28 March 2025 10:30am
 
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Speaker: Zhaofeng Zhong

Trustworthy AI: Robust and Explainable Time Series Analysis

26 March 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Kun Han

Leveraging semantics for recommendation at scale

26 March 2025 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Dr Julien Monteil (Amazon)

AI-driven Approaches for More Effective Systematic Reviews

21 March 2025 3:00pm
 
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Speaker: Shuai Wang

Value Capture From Enterprise AI

19 March 2025 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Nova Sepadyati

Towards Multimodal Intelligence: Bridging Vision, Language, and Large-Scale Models

7 March 2025 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Dr Jiuxiang Gu (Adobe)

From Next Token Prediction to Compliant AI Assistants: A Systematic Path toward Trustworthy Large Language Models

28 February 2025 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Prof Yiwei Wang (University of California Merced)

Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation

27 February 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Mike Shou (National University of Singapore)

Adaptive Collaborative Learning with Data Silos

17 February 2025 9:00am
 
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Speaker: Achmad Ginanjar

Seeking Socially Responsible Consumers: Exploring the Intention-Search-Behaviour Gap

6 February 2025 10:30am
 
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Speaker: Dr Leif Azzopardi, Principal Applied Scientist @ Microsoft

The Magnitude of Truth: On Using Magnitude Estimation in Truthfulness Assessment in Fact-Checking

6 February 2025 9:30am
 
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Speaker: Professor Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy

Towards Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Detection

21 January 2025 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Djamahl Etchegaray

Decentralized Learning for On-device Recommendation

10 January 2025 11:30am
 
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Speaker: Ruiqi Zheng

Secure Cross-device Federated Recommender Systems

10 January 2025 10:30am
 
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Speaker: Wei Yuan

Improving Generalizability of Graph Machine Learning Models

10 January 2025 9:30am
 
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Speaker: Haiyang Jiang

From Verses to Vectors

20 December 2024 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: A/Prof. Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Controllable Visual Synthesis via Structural Representation

13 December 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Yunzhi Zhang (Stanford University)

Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Dense Retrieval using Adaptive Embedding Dimension Prediction

13 December 2024 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Tharita Tipdecho

When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences

9 December 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Jianling Wang (Google Deepmind)

Developing Effective Long-Context Language Models

4 December 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Tianyu Gao (Princeton University)

Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Using Pre-trained Vision-Language Models

2 December 2024 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Dr Feng Liu (The University of Melbourne)

Scalable and Lightweight Content-based Recommender Systems

28 November 2024 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Hung Vinh Tran

Towards Graph Machine Learning in the Wild

27 November 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Qitian Wu (MIT & Harvard)

Evaluation and Reasoning in Real-world Scenarios

20 November 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Wenting Zhao (Cornell University)

Long-Range Meets Scalability: Unveiling a Linear-Time Graph Neural Network for Recommendation at Scale

13 November 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Jiahao Zhang (Pennsylvania State University)

Contextual Document Embeddings

6 November 2024 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Jack (John) Morris (Cornell University & Meta AI)

Graph Neural Networks in Epidemic Modeling: An In-Depth Review and Toolkit

30 October 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Wei Jin (Emory University)

See All You Want: Detecting Everything with Vision Foundation Models

23 October 2024 3:00pm
 
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Speaker: Jia Syuen Lim (Jason)

Advanced Strategies to Alleviate Challenges of Data Scarcity in Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis

23 October 2024 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Chaoyi Li

Inference-Time Strategies for Ranking and RAG with LLMs

23 October 2024 9:30am
 
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Speaker: Dr Honglei Zhuang (Google DeepMind)

Decentralized POI Recommender Systems

21 October 2024 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Jing Long

Graph Foundation Model in the Era of LLMs

16 October 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Chao Huang (University of Hong Kong)

Language Inclusivity with Foundation Models

10 October 2024 3:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Yuan Fang, Singapore Management University (SMU)

Recreating the Physical Natural World from Images

9 October 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Shangzhe Wu (Stanford University)

Human-Computer Conversational Vision-and-Language Navigation

8 October 2024 11:00am
 
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Speaker: A/Prof Qi Wu (University of Adelaide)

Automatic Retinal Health Monitoring through Multi-modal Medical Imaging

2 October 2024 3:30pm
 
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Speaker: Hongwei Sheng

Entrepreneurship: What does it Mean to EMCRs?

27 September 2024 1:00pm
 
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The EECS EMCR Advocacy Committee invites you to a panel session themed around entrepreneurship development.

Mitigating Domain Shifts in Real-world Image Recognition

19 September 2024 12:00pm
 
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Speaker: Zixin Wang

Towards Graph Foundation Model

11 September 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Haitao Mao (Michigan State University, USA)

Integrating Text and Audio Signals for Efficient and Effective Podcast Search

2 September 2024 9:00am
 
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Speaker: Watheq Mansour

Self-Supervised Learning for Irregular Time Series

16 July 2024 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Hrishikesh Patel

Information-Preserving Efficient Vision Transformers

2 July 2024 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Xuwei Xu

Efficient Visual Learning via Compression of Representations, Models and Datasets

2 July 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Yudong Chen

Entity Alignment for Evolving Temporal Knowledge Graphs

25 June 2024 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Jiayun Li

Towards Emotionally Music Generation: Enhancing Mood Through AI-Composed Soundscapes

24 June 2024 12:00pm
 
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Speaker: Mingzhe Zhang

Symptom Checkers, Search Engines and Conversational Agents for Online Health Information Seeking

19 June 2024 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Sebastian Cross

Toward Memory-Efficient Recommender Systems

12 June 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Jason Xurong Liang

Embracing Changes in Deep Learning: Continual Learning with Augmented and Modularized Memory

11 June 2024 2:30pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Dong Gong (The University of New South Wales)

Causality Discovery Methods for Studying Drug-Drug Interactions and Adverse Effects

11 June 2024 9:30am
 
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Speaker: Sitthichoke Subpaiboonkit

Distribution system state estimation: monitoring and characterization of active distribution networks

29 May 2024 11:00am
 
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Presenter: Dr Marta Vanin (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Generative Sequential Recommendation

22 May 2024 3:00pm
 
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Speaker: Aleksandr Petrov (University of Glasgow, UK)

Multi-modal Learning for Effective In-the-Wild Plant Disease Detection

21 May 2024 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Tianqi Wei

Efficient and Elastic Large Models

17 May 2024 3:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Prateek Jain, Google Research India

Evolving Modular Neural Networks: Investigating the Role of Modularity and Linkage Learning in Neuroevolution

17 May 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Yukai Qiao

Deep Copula-Based Survival Analysis for Dependent Censoring

24 April 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Weijia Zhang (University of Newcastle)

Conveying Complex Information in Multi-modal Dialogue Generation through Event, Knowledge and Reasoning

23 April 2024 1:30pm
 
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Speaker: Fenghua Cheng

Modelling AI-informed Online Opinion Dynamics

19 April 2024 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Shangqian Li

Investigating the role of metadata in evaluating the data quality of repurposed data

15 April 2024 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Hui Zhou

Automated Curriculum Learning for Dynamic Robot Behaviours

10 April 2024 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Humphrey Munn

Towards Open-World Object Segmentation and Detection

10 April 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Jianfei Cai (Monash University)

Effective and Secure Federated Online Learning to Rank

10 April 2024 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Shuyi Wang

Informative Representation Learning with Multimodal Data Fusion

4 April 2024 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Jinxiang Wang

Federated Graph Neural Network-based Recommender Systems

26 March 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Liang Qu

Advancing Machine Unlearning in Deep Models: Causal Insights, Efficiency, and Effectiveness

26 March 2024 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Shaofei Shen

Advancements in Time Series Analysis: from Regular to Anomalous, Cloud-based to On-Device, and Univariate to Multivariate

26 March 2024 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Yuting (Skye) Sun

Potential and limitations of using LLMs for personalized advertising

22 March 2024 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Muhammad Elyas Meguellati

Building AI/ML & Gen AI responsibly on AWS

13 March 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Nieves Garcia (Amazon)

Effective Representation Learning for Legal Case Retrieval

12 March 2024 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Yanran Tang

Filter Bubble in Recommender System: Diversity and Beyond

7 March 2024 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Chen Gao (Tsinghua University, China)

Adaptive Collaborative Learning with Data Silos

13 February 2024 11:00am
 
in Data Science Seminar
Speaker: Achmad Ginanjar

Continual Graph Learning with Graph Condensation

25 January 2024 10:00am
 
in Data Science Seminar
Speaker: Yilun Liu

Sensemaking in Multi-artefact Information Tasks

23 January 2024 1:00pm
 
in Data Science Seminar
Speaker: Tianwa Chen

Multimodal Recommender Systems: Threats and Countermeasures in the Generative AI Era

15 December 2023 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Lijian Chen

Summer of AI 2023 Keynotes

14 December 2023 12:00pm
 
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Join us at the 2023 Summer of AI (SAI) from 11-15 December, where you'll hear from UQ's two new Professors of AI, as well as some of our leading academics in the field.

AI and HPC Infrastructure at UQ in the next 12 to 24 months

13 December 2023 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Jake Carroll, Chief Technical Officer of UQ RCC

Summer of AI 2023 Keynotes

11 December 2023 12:00pm
 
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Join us at the 2023 Summer of AI (SAI) from 11-15 December, where you'll hear from UQ's two new Professors of AI, as well as some of our leading academics in the field.

Diffusion and text-based guidance for image morphing

8 December 2023 10:00am
 
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Speaker: Prof Richard Hartley, Australian National University

Synergising Learning Theory, Learning Analytics, and Educational Technologies

7 December 2023 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Hatim Lahza

AlgorithmOS, a self organising modular framework for the implementation of algorithmic research

27 November 2023 11:00am
 
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Speaker: Llewyn Salt

Normalization for relational and graph databases

20 November 2023 12:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Sebastian Link (University of Auckland)

Database integration in multidatabase systems

8 November 2023 11:45am
 
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Speaker: Dr Liang Zheng, Australian National University

Measurement, Scales, Averages, Meaningfulness

7 November 2023 10:00am
 
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Speaker:Prof Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy

Large Language Models: Risks, Opportunities and Responses

29 October 2023 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Geoff Webb (Monash University)

Process Mining: Opportunities and Challenges

18 October 2023 1:00pm
 
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Speaker: Prof Moe Thandar Kyaw Wynn (Queensland University of Technology)

On using language models for relevance labelling

16 October 2023 2:00pm
 
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Speaker: Dr Paul Thomas, Microsoft

AI-driven Approaches for Effective Systematic Review Literature Screening

13 October 2023 3:00pm
 
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Speaker: Xinyu Mao

Evaluating and Improving Text to Image Alignment with Latent Diffusion Models

4 October 2023 1:00pm
 
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