Appointments:
I have officially moved to the University of Hong
Kong, and currently hold the positions:
- 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:
- A New Open Source Book: Principles and
Practice of Deep Representation Learning,
version 2.0, March 1, 2026.
- An Interview, on Youtube Video, by the blogger Machine Learning Street Talk
(MLST) about our new book.
- Short Course for the
Mathematical Foundations & Methodologies for Artificial Intelligence
at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS), National University
of Singapore (NUS), August 17-21, 2026.
- Colloquium Lecture in the Department of Mathematics at
National University of Singapore, August 16-17, 2026.
- Keynote at a Workshop, ICML, the COEX Convention &
Exhibition Center, Seoul, South Korea, July 10-11, 2026.
- Short Course on "Learning Deep Low-dimensional Models from High-Dimensional Data", The European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria, 6-10 July 2026.
- Attending CVPR, Denver, Colorado, June 3-7, 2026.
- Berkeley EECS Colloquium, Pursuing the
Nature of Intelligence, Soda 306, Berkeley,
3pm, May 6, 2026.
- Invited talk at Stanford Vision Seminar, Stanford,
3:30pm, May 4, 2026.
- Keynote at UPenn, IDEAS on
Generative AI Symposium, Philadelphia,
April 30, 2026.
- General Chair of International Conference on Parsimony and
Learning (CPAL), Tubingen, Germany, March 2026.
- Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting
Scholar Lecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 13.
- Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting
Scholar High-Table Dinner, Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 11.
Recent Releases:
- Recorded video of Pursuing the
Nature of Intelligence, Berkeley EECS Colloquium,
May 6, 2026.
- 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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