Graduate Courses Offered in 2025-26
Graduation requirement for attending the seminar
Four-year PhD students must attend at least 10 seminars per academic year throughout their studies. The seminars can be chosen from the SCDS Distinguished Lectures, or from the seminar series of the three departments.
The full-time RPg students who did not have a full academic year due to leave of absence should attend seminars on a pro rata basis.
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Schedule of the seminars
| Title | Speaker | Date and time | Venue |
| Safeguarding the Web3 Fintech Ecosystem Across the Full Stack | Prof. Daoyuan Wu | January 23, 2026 11:15 am - 12:25 am |
CB 308 |
| Engineering Faithful and Interpretable AI Systems | Prof. René Vidal | January 19, 2026 11:30 am - 12:30 am |
Innovation Wing Two, G/F, Run Run Shaw Building |
| Harmonizing the Trilemma: Orchestrating Privacy, Robustness, and Efficiency in Collaborative Intelligence | Prof. Runhua Xu | January 9, 2026 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Optimal Decision Rules With Policy-Relevant Guarantees | Prof. Mats Julius Stensrud | January 9, 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
Room 301, Run Run Shaw Building |
| Optimal No-Regret Learning in Repeated First-Price Auctions | Prof. Zhengyuan Zhou | January 8, 2026 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| The Promise of Procedural Synthetic Data and Environments | Prof. Jia Deng | January 7, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
CB 308 |
| LLM based Zero Shot Speech Synthesis | Dr. Shujie Liu | December 19, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
CB 308 |
| Towards Scalable Serverless LLM Inference Systems | Prof. Minchen Yu | December 19, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Towards Consistent and Physically Plausible Visual Generation | Prof. Jianfei Cai | December 18, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 nn |
CB 308 |
| Genetics of Human Longevity: Regional Association Signals and Cross-cohort Replication | Prof. Heping Zhang | December 17, 2025 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Room 301, Run Run Shaw Building |
| AI-Assisted System Security: from Offense to Defense | Prof. Yan Chen | December 16, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| AI Planning for Data Exploration | Prof. Sihem Amer-Yahia | December 12, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
HW312, Haking Wong Building |
| Updating Quantum Beliefs | Prof. Valerio Scarani | December 12, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Data Science and AI for Remote Sensing | Prof. Peng Gong | December 11, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
CB308 |
| Genetic and Epigenetic Landscape of Self-Identified Hispanics in All Of Us | Dr. Fritz Sedlazeck | December 9, 2025 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
CB 308 |
| Fighting Noise with Noise: Causal Inference with Many Candidate Instruments | Prof. Linbo Wang | December 8, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Room 301, Run Run Shaw Building |
| Reinventing Operations Management’s Research and Practice with Data Science | Prof. David Simchi-Levi | December 1, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
HW312, Haking Wong Building |
| The Three Faces of Networking | Prof. Ang Chen | December 1, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Mortality Surface Modeling With Gaussian Processes | Prof. Mike Ludkovski | November 28, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 nn |
Room 301, Run Run Shaw Building |
| Understanding LLM Behaviors via Compression: Data Generation, Knowledge Acquisition and Scaling Laws | Prof. Jian Li | November 28, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Biomedicine in the Age of AI and Foundation Models | Prof. Lei Xing | November 27, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
HW312, Haking Wong Building |
| Statistical Analysis of Large-Scare Item Response Data Under Measurement Noninvariance | Prof. Jing Ouyang | November 26, 2025 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Room 301, Run Run Shaw Building |
| The Implications of Side Bequest Motives on the Life Insurance Decisions of Retired Couples | Prof. Ki Wai Chau | November 24, 2025 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Room 301, Run Run Shaw Building |
| From Statistical Physics to Privacy: Phase Transitions, Sampling and Differential Privacy | Prof. Jingcheng Liu | November 21, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Causal Representation Learning | Dr. Guangyi Chen | November 21, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
Room 301, Run Run Shaw Building |
| The Wild Robot: A Journey Toward Long-Horizon Agentic Intelligence | Prof. Ivor W Tsang | November 20, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 nn |
HW312, Haking Wong Building |
| Recent Advances in Game-Theoretic Feature Attributions for Kernel Methods and Gaussian Processes | Prof. Siu Lun Chau | November 19, 2025 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Room 301, Run Run Shaw Building |
| Deep Model Fusion | Prof. Dacheng Tao | November 19, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am |
HW312, Haking Wong Building |
| Statistics-Powered AI | Prof. Chengchun Shi | November 18, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
Room 301, Run Run Shaw Building |
| Task-Driven Image Restoration: Why, How, and What? | Prof. Kyoung Mu Lee | November 14, 2025 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
HW312, Haking Wong Building |
| Radio Sensing for Human Sensing | Prof. Stephan Sigg | November 14, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Manifold Fitting | Prof. Zhigang Yao | November 11, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
Room 301, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building |
| Exploring Synergies in Wireless Systems and Soft Robots | Mr. Yiwen Song | November 10, 2025 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
CB 308 |
| Measuring and Mitigating Adversarial Intermediaries on the Global Internet | Dr. Diwen Xue | November 7, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Providing Factual Information with Dual Neural Knowledge | Dr. Xin Luna Dong | October 30, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 nn |
HW312, Haking Wong Building |
| Dynamic Spectral Clustering with Provable Approximation Guarantee | Prof. He Sun | October 24, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| GPU Trusted Execution Environment | Prof. Fengwei Zhang | October 17, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Do Generalist Robots Need Specialist Models? | Prof. Chen Feng | October 14, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
CB 308 |
| Quantum satellites and tests of relativity | Daniel Terno | October 13, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| From Digital Human to Humanoids | Prof. He Xiaodong, JD Group | October 13, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am |
Room 301, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building |
| Towards Efficient and Adaptive RL Algorithms in Dynamic and Multi-Agent Environments | Prof. Shuai Li | October 10, 2025 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
CB 328 |
| Surgical Data Science for Women's Health | Prof. Pierre Jannin and Prof. Krystel Nyangoh Timoh | October 9, 2025 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
CB 308 |
| Markets as Approximation Algorithms: Their Design and Analysis | Dr. Yaonan Jin | October 3, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am |
CB 308 |
| Quantum Bayes' rule and Petz transpose map from the minimum change principle | Prof. Ge Bai | September 26, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Sublinear Algorithms for Graph Optimization | Prof. Cliff Liu | September 19, 2025 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
CB 308 |
| Algorithmic Optimization of Carbon Footprint in Long-Haul Heavy-Duty E-Truck Transportation | Prof. Minghua Chen | September 12, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am |
CB 308 |