Academic Report of Prof. Zhang Chengqi, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Technology, Sydney

Title: The Development of Artificial Intelligence and the Comparison of Education System between China and AustraliaSpeaker: Zhang ChengqiTime: 18: 30-20: 30, Tuesday, September 17, 2019Venue: Lecture Hall of International Academic (West of the Library), Central Campus, Jilin University Abstract:With widely used in various fields, artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the hottest topic...

Series Seminar of SAI in 2021 -- Academic Report of Dr. Liang Guannan from University of Connecticut, USA

Title: Efficient Algorithms for Nonconvex Sparse Learning ProblemsAbstract: Sparse learning plays important roles in the fields of statistical learning, machine learning (ML) and signal processing. Learning with high dimensional data often relies on the sparsity-driven regularization. Solving a sparsity-regularized empirical risk minimization (ERM) problem can derive a ML model with sparse para...

Series Seminar of SAI in 2021 -- Academic Report of Dr. Tian Yuan from Jilin University

Title: Research on Natural Language Processing Algorithms for Text Semantic Matching and Knowledge ExtractionBiography: Tian Yuan obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Jilin University in 2018, Master’s Degree in Computer Application Technology from Jilin University in 2012, Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Technology from Jilin University in 2008. He has publish...

Series Seminar of SAI in 2021 -- Academic Report of Prof. Yang Xin from Dalian University of Technology

Title: Intelligent Understanding and Interactive Computing of ScenesAbstract: Based on intelligent understanding and interactive computing of scene content, it explores the relationship among representation, modeling, perception and interaction of real-world scene content, discusses how the agent can improve the environmental prediction ability and behavioral decision-making ability of dynamic ...

Series Seminar of SAI in 2020 -- Academic Report of Dr. Gao Yixing from University of Birmingham, UK

​Title: User Modelling for Personalized Dressing Assistance by Humanoid RobotsAbstract: Assistive humanoid robots in home environments are steadily increasing in popularity. Due to significant variabilities in human behavior, as well as physical characteristics and individual preferences, personalizing assistance poses a challenging problem. Among various tasks in home environments, assistive ...

Series Seminar of SAI in 2020 -- Academic Report of Prof. Yao Xin from Southern University of Science and Technology

​Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Computation (Great-Brain) Department of Computer Science and Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Shenzhen, ChinaEvolutionary computation has been an important area for artificial intelligence for more than 40 years. Yet we do not hear it much from the media. In this talk, we will explain the moti...

Series Seminar of SAI in 2020(I) -- Academic Lecture by Amy from Singapore Management University

Title: One-Class Order Embedding Learning for Dependency Relation PredictionTime: 10: 00am, Friday, January 3, 2020Venue: Administration Building, Room 601Abstract:Most of current representation learning techniques aim to learn entity representations that are semantics-preserving, i.e., semantically similar entities are mapped into a nearby area in the semantic embedding space. In this study, w...

Series Seminar of SAI in 2020(IV) -- Academic Lecture by Postdoc Sudao Bilige from The University of Sydney

​Title: Application of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Precision AgricultureTime: 10: 00am, Thursday, January 9, 2020Venue: Administration Building, Room 601Organizer: School of Artificial Intelligence Abstract: Agricultural Automation, Robotization and Artificial Intelligence will greatly reduce labor costs, increase the utilization of fertilizers and other pesticides, reduce environm...

Series Seminar of SAI in 2020(III) -- Academic Lecture by Professor Jian Yu from Beijing Jiaotong University

Title: Cognition-based Machine Learning AxiomatizationTime: 10: 00am, Friday, January 10, 2020Venue: Administration Building, Room 601Organizer: School of Artificial IntelligenceAbstract: In the era of big data, a large number of new machine learning methods, driven by application requirements, are constantly generated. These new algorithms have different theoretical basis, and the relationship...

Series Seminar of SAI in 2020 (II) -- Academic Report of Dr. Ming Liu from Monash University

​Title: Learning Deep Neural Networks for Hard Natural Language ProblemsAbstract: Deep learning has revolutionized the way that many tasks are tackled in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This talk will cover some recent advances in deep learning for NLP, including embeddings, encoder-decoder architecture, attentions, and language modeling. Then, I will introduce some of the research work in ...