ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Pamela Wang – The thesis will study various degrees of centralisation in cooperation mechanisms, spanning from fully centralised planning-based approaches to fully decentralised communicating agents.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Wei Han – This thesis, aims to provide practical solutions towards basic issues such as high computational costs of multimodal learning, and giving practical solutions to each of them.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Perry Lam – Neural networks are known to be over-parametrised and sparse models have been shown to perform as well as dense models over a range of image and language processing tasks. However, while compact representations and model compression methods have been applied to speech tasks, sparsification techniques have rarely been used on text-to-speech (TTS) models. We seek to characterise the impact of selected sparse techniques on the performance and model complexity.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Chin Wai Kit Daniel – Social media and social networking platforms have greatly connected people worldwide and democratised information creation and propagation by facilitating seamless and almost instantaneous information sharing between people and communities.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Qi Zhang – Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are crucial in signal processing but face challenges when handling high-dynamic-range signals. In radar systems, the coexistence of strong and weak targets can lead to significant information loss due to ADC limitations.

The award is the highest government award granted by the Chinese government to Chinese doctoral students who study overseas as well as postdoctoral researchers who conduct research and have received doctorates overseas.

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Hu Zhiqiang – This thesis advances the computational understanding and manipulation of text styles
through three interconnected pillars: (1) Text Style Transfer (TST); (2) Authorship Attribution (AA); and (3) Authorship Verification (AV), determining whether two texts share the same authorship.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Liu Xiaogang’s PhD Student in Winning the Best Oral Presentation Award

Congratulations to PhD student Hee Ming Shan for obtaining SDSC Dissertion Research Fellowship 2023

ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Tomomasa Yamasaki – This dissertation proposes an integrated research framework that spans algorithm-level network evaluation, hardware-aware optimisation, and cycle-accurate performance simulation.