Dear Professor/ Dato/ Datin/ Dr/ Mr/ Miss/ Madam,
You are cordially invited to the IOES Scientific Seminar Series organized by the Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences (IOES)
with the details as follows:
Title & Speaker:
AI and Systems Design for Marine Challenges
by Dr. Assoc. Prof. Dr Sai-kit Yeung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Date:
29 Feb 2024 (Thursday)
Time:
10.30 AM - 11.30 AM
Venue:
Anggerik Room, Level 3, Block D,
Advanced Studies Complex,
Universiti Malaya
Biography:
Dr. Sai-Kit Yeung is currently an Associate Professor at the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD), the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and the Department of Ocean Science (OCES) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST, he was an Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and founded the Vision, Graphics and Computational Design (VGD) Group. During his time at SUTD, he was also a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Prior to that, he had been a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Dr. Yeung’s research interests include 3D vision and graphics, content generation, fabrication, and novel computational techniques and integrative systems for marine-related problems. He has published extensively in premier computer vision and graphics venues, including numerous full oral papers in CVPR, ICCV, and AAAI. His work has received best paper honorable mention awards at ICCP 2015 and 3DV 2016. He has served as a Senior Program Committee member in IJCAI and AAAI, and as a Course Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2019. In addition, he regularly serves as a Technical Papers Committee member for SIGGPAPH & SIGGRAPH Asia and is currently an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). Recently, he also served as an Area Chair of CVPR 2023 and ICCV 2023 and is serving this pivotal role again in CVPR 2024.
A sharing session on the MSc program at OCES, HKUST will be given by Prof. Stanley Chun Kwan Lau. We welcome any students who are interested in joining us.
Thank you.
Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences
C308, Kompleks Pengajian Termaju
Universiti Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: +603-7967 4640 | Faks: +603-7967 6994
https://ioes.um.edu.my/