Title: IDS Distinguished Speaker Series - On the Principles of Parsimony and Self-Consistency: Structured Compressive Closed-Loop Transcription

Time: 03:00pm 

Venue: Hybrid - Tam Wing Fan Inno Wing Two, HKU & Zoom (Registration is required)

Speaker(s): Prof Yi Ma, ElecEngg & CompSc, UC Berkeley / Moderator: Prof TW Lam, Dept of CS, HKU

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Seats for on-site participants are limited. A confirmation email will be sent to participants who have successfully registered.

Title: CS Seminar - Modality agnostic neural data compression with Implicit Neural Representations

Time: 02:00pm 

Venue: Rm 308, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU

Speaker(s): Jonathan Richard Schwarz, Senior Research Scientist, DeepMind

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Title: HKU Computer Science Distinguished Lecture - The Data Landscape: Trends and Directions

Time: 04:00pm 

Venue: Hybrid mode - Tam Wing Fan Inno Wing Two, G/F, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU & via Zoom (Registration is required)

Speaker(s): Dr. C. Mohan, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Visiting Researcher at Google, USA

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Title: [HKU-IDS Scholar Seminar] Huge Language Models: Why They Matter, How They Work, And When They Fail

Time: 04:00pm 

Venue: Lecture Theatre C, Chow Yei Ching Bldg, HKU

Speaker(s): Dr Tao YU, Dept of Computer Science, HKU

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Title: HINCare: Using Heterogenous Information Networks for Intelligent Volunteering

Time: 04:00pm 

Venue: Via Zoom (Registration is required)

Speaker(s): Professor Reynold Cheng, Dept of Computer Science, HKU

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Title: [Tech Talk] Causes and Effects in the Microscopic World

Time: 04:30pm 

Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two, G/F, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU

Speaker(s): Professor Giulio Chiribella, Dept of Computer Science

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Title: Some Reflections on Drawing Causal Inference with Texts

Time: 03:30pm 

Venue: Room 308, Chow Yei Ching Bldg, The University of Hong Kong

Speaker(s): Jiayao Zhang, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania

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Title: IFTA FinTech Awards 2021/2022 Campus Sharing Tour(HKU)

Time: 04:30pm 

Venue: Lecture Theatre A, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU

Speaker(s): Awardees of IFTA FinTech and Innovcation Awards 2021/2022

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Title: How to Preserve Privacy on Blockchain?

Time: 05:00pm 

Venue: Zoom (Registration is required)

Speaker(s): from Secret Network

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Title: HKU FinTech Day - CBDC Mini-Talks - “CBDC - Tech Technology, Privacy, Security and Tracking Illegal Activities”

Time: 03:30pm 

Venue: Online (Registration is required)

Speaker(s): Prof. Siu-Ming YIU, Dr Allen AU, Dr Chenxiong QIAN, Dr John YUEN, & Dr Qi LIU, Dept of CS & FinTech Academy, HKU

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