Appointments:
- Visiting Professor of the EECS Department, UC
Berkeley, since January 2025.
- Chair Professor in AI, the School of Computing and
Data Science (CDS), the University of Hong Kong,
since July 1, 2023.
- Director of the School of Computing and
Data Science (CDS), the University of Hong Kong, since
July 1, 2024.
- Director of the Institute of Data
Science (IDS), the
University of Hong Kong, since January 1, 2023.
New Events:
- General Chair of International Conference on Parsimony and
Learning (CPAL), Tubingen, Germany, March 2026.
- Invited talk for the "Intelligence, AI, and the Nature of
Mind" track at Winter Seminar Series (WSS) at Sharif University of
Technology, March 12.
- Lecture as the Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting
Scholar, Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 13.
- Youtube Video of a recent interview by the blogger Machine Learning Street Talk
(MLST) about our new book on the principles of Intelligence.
Recent Releases:
- A New Open Source Book: Learning Deep
Representations of Data Distributions, August 18, 2025.
- Project Website: GAUSS: General Assessment of Underlying Structured Skills in Mathematics.
- Recorded video of Pursuing the
Nature of Intelligence (with
Slides), Invited Talk at Purdue University,
August 1, 2025.
- Recorded video of Pursuing the
Nature of Intelligence (with
Slides), Columbia University,
May 1, 2025.
- Project Website: SimDINO: Simplying
DINO via Coding Rate Regularization.
- Project Website: Token Statistics
Transformer: Linear-Time Attention.
- Project Website: From
Simple to Complex Skills: The Case of In-Hand Object
Reorientation.
- Project Website: Sclaing White-Box Transformers
for Vision.
- Project Website: White-Box Transformers
via Sparse Rate Reduction.
- A New International Conference: Conference on Parsimony and
Learning (CPAL) (Stanford, March 24-28, 2025).
- A New Textbook: High-Dimensional Data
Analysis with Low-Dimensional Models (or a mirror site
for download
in China).
- A New Position Paper:
On the Principles of Parsimony and Self-Consistency for the Emergence of Intelligence.
- A New Course EECS208: Computational
Principles for High-Dimensional Data Analysis
(with a Course Website and Lecture Slides).
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