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

17 May 2024 1:00pm
This presentation investigates the role of modularity in advancing neuroevolution algorithms and proposes novel techniques that exploit this property to evolve efficient neural networks.

Deep Copula-Based Survival Analysis for Dependent Censoring

24 April 2024 1:00pm
This talk will discuss a flexible survival analysis method that simultaneously accommodates dependent censoring and eliminates the requirement for specifying the copula.

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

23 April 2024 1:30pm
We target conveying more complex information into multi-modal dialogue generation with events, knowledge and reasoning.

Modelling AI-informed Online Opinion Dynamics

19 April 2024 2:00pm
With the massive development in Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the past decades, people nowadays are used to fast-paced and real-time information exchange and public opinion deliberation.

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

15 April 2024 2:00pm
This PhD research investigates the critical yet under-explored role of metadata in evaluating the quality of repurposed data.

Automated Curriculum Learning for Dynamic Robot Behaviours

10 April 2024 2:00pm
In this research, we explore the under-researched and challenging area of full-body manipulation tasks for robotics.

Towards Open-World Object Segmentation and Detection

10 April 2024 1:00pm
In this talk, I will introduce a few works that have been done in my group showing the trends from close-set to open-set and to open-world.

Effective and Secure Federated Online Learning to Rank

10 April 2024 10:00am
In this thesis, we comprehensively investigate the aforementioned challenges and build effective, secure federated online learning to rank methods.

Informative Representation Learning with Multimodal Data Fusion

4 April 2024 2:00pm
This research addresses the imperative need for informative representation learning through multimodal data fusion techniques.

Federated Graph Neural Network-based Recommender Systems

26 March 2024 1:00pm
This seminar introduces several innovations to address challenges of federated GNN-based recommender systems including performance degradation, inflexible architectures, slow convergence, and the demand for substantial local storage resources.

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

26 March 2024 11:00am
The overall aim of this research is to advance the field of machine unlearning in the aspects of causal insights, efficiency, and effectiveness.

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

26 March 2024 10:00am
This seminar explores the latest advancements in time series analysis by examining three key aspects: pattern recognition, on-device applications, and complex multivariate time series modelling.

Potential and limitations of using LLMs for personalized advertising

22 March 2024 2:00pm
This presentation investigates the potential of large language models (LLMs) for generating personalized online advertisements tailored to specific personality traits and the implications of such technology for political advertising, combining insights from two studies.

Building AI/ML & Gen AI responsibly on AWS

13 March 2024 1:00pm
This presentation explores best practices for building AI/ML and generative AI (Gen AI) models responsibly on AWS.

Effective Representation Learning for Legal Case Retrieval

12 March 2024 10:00am
Legal case retrieval (LCR) is a specialised and indispensable retrieval task that focuses on retrieving relevant cases given a query case.

Filter Bubble in Recommender System: Diversity and Beyond

7 March 2024 1:00pm
In this talk, we first discuss one of the most important aspects of the filter bubble, recommendation diversity, particularly diversified recommendation models and full-stage large-scale online experiments on short-video platforms.

One-Day Face-to-Face Oils for Application in Transformers and Tap Changers: CPD Course

16 February 2024 8:30am5:00pm
This one-day face-to-face course will bring industry professionals together for dialogue and sharing of knowledge to better understand oils for transformer and tap changer applications and testing thereof. This course will deliver the theoretical background information necessary along with practical experience from industry experts to understand the issues of oils and their application in a modern power system. This course is aimed at procurement, asset strategies, operations and maintenance managers and engineers in generation, transmission and distribution, renewables manufacturing mining industrial and infrastructure organisations.

Adaptive Collaborative Learning with Data Silos

13 February 2024 11:00am
This study investigates strategies to effectively handle challenges related to data silos.

Continual Graph Learning with Graph Condensation

25 January 2024 10:00am
Continual graph learning (CGL) is purposed to continuously update a graph model with graph data being fed in a streaming manner.

Sensemaking in Multi-artefact Information Tasks

23 January 2024 1:00pm
The research findings provide novel insights and understanding of the sensemaking processes in various settings and contribute to modelling practice and the design of supporting tools.

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

15 December 2023 2:00pm
This research introduces a corresponding attack method to uncover the actual vulnerabilities within recommender systems.

Summer of AI 2023 Keynotes

14 December 2023 12:00pm
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
This talk will provide an inside view of what AI/ML/DL infrastructure UQ RCC has available right now and an early view of what is coming next.

Summer of AI 2023 Keynotes

11 December 2023 12:00pm
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
The talk will give some background on diffusion as a Generative Model for images, and text-based imaging.

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