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.
- HKU International Forum on Future of Artificial
Intelligence, October 26-27, 2025.
- Chair, Future Science Prize, Computer Science Session, Hong Kong, October
25, 2025.
- Invited Speaker at ICCV 2025 Workshop on Continual
Learning in Computer Vision, Hawaii, October 20.
- Tutorial on Pursuing Low-Dim Structures, ICCV, Hawaii,
October 19.
- Invited Talk, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China,
October 15, 2025.
- Westlake Master Forum, West Lake University, Hangzhou, China,
October 14, 2025.
- Plenary Lectures for the International Artificial
Intelligence Summer School - IAISS 2025, Italy, September 21-25,
2025.
- Keynote Speech, Inclusion Conference, Shanghai, September 10, 2025.
- Keynote Speech, Advanced Technology Forum, Souther
China University of Technology, August 22, 2025.
- Invited Talk, ECE Department, Purdue University, August
1, 2025.
- Distinguished Lecture, ECE Department, Iowa State
University, May 2, 2025.
- Invited Talk, EE Department, Columbia University, May 1, 2025.
- Invited Talk, CS Department, New York University,
April 30, 2025.
- Invited Lecture, Google Research, New York, April 30,
2025.
- Flatiron Workshop on SSL, New York, April 29, 2025.
- Keynote Speech, the International Conference on
Learning Representations (ICLR), Singapore, April 25, 2025.
- Tutorial on Deep Representation Learning, CPAL,
Stanford, March 24, 2025.
- Distinguished Lecture on "Pursuing the Nature of
Intelligence", Peking University, March 14, 2025.
- Invited Talk on "Pursuing the Nature of
Intelligence", Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, March 14, 2025.
- Invited Talk on "Pursuing the Nature of
Intelligence", Tsinghua University, March 13, 2025.
- Invited Talk on "Pursuing the Nature of
Intelligence", Shanghai JiaoTong University, March 4, 2025.
- HKU AI Literacy Course Lecture: The Nature of
Intelligence, Hong Kong University, Februray 5, 2025.
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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