Participation in Conferences & Workshops

Associate Professor Christopher Michael POSKITT presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Brazil

Paper title: "AgentSpec: Customizable Runtime Enforcement for Safe and Reliable LLM Agents"

Associate Professor SHAR Lwin Khin presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Brazil

Paper title: "Back to the Basics: Rethinking Issue-Commit Linking with LLM-Assisted Retrieval"

Assistant Professor HUO Yintong presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Brazil

Paper title: "ConfLogger: Enhance Systems' Configuration Diagnosability through Configuration Logging"

Associate Professor OUH Eng Lieh presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Brazil

Paper title: "Let the Trial Begin: A Mock-Court Approach to Vulnerability Detection using LLM-Based Agents"

Assistant Professor DENG Yang's paper accepted at European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) , Delft, The Netherlands

Paper title: "Improving Conversational Recommendation with Contextual Adaptation of External Recommenders and LLM-based Reranking"

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng presents paper at IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) , Virtual

Paper title: "VideoSketcher: A Training-Free Approach for Coherent Video Sketch Transfer"

Associate Professor TA Nguyen Binh Duong presents paper at 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2026), Marbella, Spain

Paper title: "Detecting AI-generated answers in software engineering assessments"

Associate Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Boise, Idaho

Paper title: "Prompt Tuning without Labeled Samples for Zero-Shot Node Classification in Text-Attributed Graphs"

Lee Kong Chian Professor NGO Chong Wah presents paper at Multimedia Modeling (MMM) as a Session Chair, Prague

Paper title: "Two papers to present: Full paper title: Food Recognition with Visual Language Models: Search Re-ranking or Retrieval-Augmented Generation? Video benchmarking paper: VIREO @ Video Browser Showdown 2026"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi attends Multimedia Modeling (MMM) as a Session Chair, Prague

Professor LAU Hoong Chuin presents paper at 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence (QC+AI 2026) at the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), Singapore

Paper title: "Hybrid Learning and Optimization Model for Solving Capacited Vehicle Routing Problems"

Professor LIM Ee-Peng presents paper at the 10th International Workshop on Health Intelligence (W3PHIAI-26), Singapore

Paper title: "Not All Labels Are Equal: On Predicting Utterance Labels in Mental Health Conversation Data"

Assistant Professor ZHU Bin presents paper at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Singapore

Paper title: "Actor-Critic for Continuous Action Chunks: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation with Sparse Reward"

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong presents papers at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Singapore

Paper titles: Paper 1-"TargetVAU: Multimodal Anomaly-Aware Reasoning for Target Behavior Understanding in Videos" and Paper 2-"MTAttack: Multi-Target Backdoor Attacks against Vision-Language Models"

Associate Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Singapore

Paper title: "THGB: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Text-attributed Heterogeneous Graphs"

Assistant Professor CAO Zhiguang presents paper at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Singapore

Paper title: "Scale-Net: A Hierarchical U-Net Framework for Cross-Scale Generalization in Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Problems"

Lee Kong Chian Professor TAN Ah Hwee presents paper at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Singapore

Paper title: "ARTEM: Enhancing Large Language Model Agents with Spatial-Temporal Episodic Memory"

Assistant Professor DENG Yang presents paper at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Singapore

Paper title: "Do Retrieval Augmented Language Models Know When They Don't Know?" Assistant Professor Deng YANG also gives an invited talk with the New Faculty Highlights Track at the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026).

Associate Professor WANG Hai presents paper at IEEE Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) , Maui

Paper title: "Gig Worker Social Referrals on an On-Demand Food Delivery Platform"

Associate Professor WANG Hai presents paper at 16th POMS-HK International Conference, Shenzhen

Paper titles: "1. Managing Hybrid Workforce and Hybrid Demand: Optimal Order Assignment Policy for On-Demand Delivery Platform 2. Short-Term Vehicle Repositioning in Ride-Hailing Systems: An Interpretable Two-Stage Framework"

Assistant Professor KE Ping Fan presents paper at Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) , Nashville, USA

Paper title: "Evaluating DeFi Vulnerabilities: The Role of Bug Bounty Programs on DeFi Software Supply Chain"

Lee Kong Chian Professor TAN Ah Hwee give a keynote address at the 2025 International Forum on Intelligent Medical Engineering (IME), Shenzhen, China

Keynote title: "Explainable AI Predictive Models for Mild Cognitive Impairmenet (MCI) Detection"

Professor SIAU Keng Leng presents paper, as well as attend as a Workshop Co-Chair at 20th International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications (VRCAI 2025), Macau, China

Paper title: "Towards Inclusive Digital Futures of Cultural Heritage: Insights from a Critical Discourse Analysis of UNESCO Dialogues"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi attends ACM Multimedia Asia 2025 as Workshop Co-Chair, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Lee Kong Chian Professor NGO Chong Wah presenting at the ACM Multimedia Asia 2025 as the Technical Program Co-Chair, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Associate Professor WANG Hai serves as a judge and discussant for the paper competition at The 29th International Conference of Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Hong Kong

Associate Professor Akshat KUMAR presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), San Diego

Paper title: "IOSTOM: Offline Imitation Learning from Observations via State Transition Occupancy Matching"

Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), San Diego

Paper title: "No experts, no problem: Avoidance learning from bad demonstrations"

Assistant Professor Antoine LEDENT presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), San Diego

Paper title: "Generalization Bounds for Rank-sparse Neural Networks"

Professor LAU Hoong Chuin presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), San Diego

Paper title: "Probing Neural Combinatorial Optimization Models"

Assistant Professor CAO Zhiguang presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , San Diego

Paper title: "Hybrid-Balance GFlowNet for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems"

Assistant Professor MAI Anh Tien presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , San Diego

Paper title: "MisoDICE: Multi-Agent Imitation from Unlabeled Mixed-Quality Demonstrations"

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng presents papers at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , San Diego

Paper titles: "Neptune-X: Active X-to-Maritime Generation for Universal Maritime Object Detection; Registration is a Powerful Rotation-Invariance Learner for 3D Anomaly Detection; StableGuard: Towards Unified Copyright Protection and Tamper Localization in Latent Diffusion Models; Safe-Sora: Safe Text-to-Video Generation via Graphical Watermarking; Jury-and-Judge Chain-of-Thought for Uncovering Toxic Data in 3D Visual Grounding"

Professor SUN Jun gives an invited talk at ChinaSOFT 2025, Wuhan

Assistant Professor HUO Yintong presents paper at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Seoul, South Korea

Paper title: "1. [Full research paper] Interaction2Code: Benchmarking MLLM-based Interactive Webpage Code Generation from Interactive Prototyping 2. [New idea track] Exploring Autonomous Agents: A Closer Look at Why They Fail When Completing Tasks 3. [AIware] Envisioning Future Interactive Web Development: Editing Webpage with Natural Language"

Associate Professor SHAR Lwin Khin presents paper at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Seoul, South Korea

Paper title: "VERCATION: Precise Vulnerable Open-source Software Version Identification based on Static Analysis and LLM"

Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei attends IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Seoul, South Korea

Paper title: "Seeing is Fixing: Cross-Modal Reasoning with Multimodal LLMs for Visual Software Issue Repair"

Professor LIM Ee-Peng the Test of Time award at ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Seoul, Korea

Paper title: "Detecting product review spammers using rating behaviors"

Assistant Professor DENG Yang gives a keynote talk at ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Seoul, Korea

Associate Professor DAI Bing Tian presents paper at ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Seoul, Korea

Paper title: "Usefulness and Diminishing Returns: Evaluating Social Information in Recommender Systems"

Associate Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Seoul, Korea

Paper title: "Unified Molecule Pre-training with Flexible 2D and 3D Modalities: Single and Paired Modality Integration"

Professor LIM Ee-Peng presents papers at Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Suzhou, China

Paper title: "Seeing Culture: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning and Grounding"

Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei presents papers at Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Suzhou, China

Paper title: "MMLU-ProX: A Multilingual Benchmark for Advanced Large Language Model Evaluation"

Assistant Professor DENG Yang presents papers at Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Suzhou, China

Paper titles: "1. From Personas to Talks: Revisiting the Impact of Personas on LLM-Synthesized Emotional Support Conversations; 2. Why Stop at One Error? Benchmarking LLMs as Data Science Code Debuggers for Multi-Hop and Multi-Bug Errors; 3. AdaSteer: Your Aligned LLM is Inherently an Adaptive Jailbreak Defender"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi presents paper at Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Suzhou, China

Paper title: "One Planner To Guide Them All ! Learning Adaptive Conversational Planners for Goal-oriented Dialogues"

Assistant Professor MA Dong presents paper at ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Hong Kong

Paper title: "ESPIRO: Natural Pulmonary Function Monitoring via Earphone-Acquired Speech"

Assistant Professor LI Jiannan presents paper at IEEE Visualization Conference (IEEE VIS) , Vienna, Austria

Paper title: "Qualitative Study for LLM-assisted Design Study Process: Strategies, Challenges, and Roles"

Assistant Professor MA Yunshan presents paper at ACM Multimedia (MM), Dublin, Ireland

Paper title: "GenWardrobe: A Fully Generative System for Travel Fashion Wardrobe Construction"

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng presents papers at ACM Multimedia (MM), Virtual

Paper titles: "Art4Math: Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition via Multimodal Sketch Grounding; DiffusionMat: Alpha Matting as Deterministic Sequential Refinement Learning; Language-Driven 3D Human Pose Estimation in Multi-Person Scenarios: A New Dataset and Approach"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi presents paper at ACM Multimedia (MM), Dublin, Ireland

Paper title: "Boosting Chart-to-Code Generation in MLLM via Dual Preference-Guided Refinement"

Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW have paper accepted at ACM Multimedia (MM), Dublin, Ireland

Paper title: "Parameter-Efficient Variational AutoEncoder for Multimodal Multi-Interest Recommendation"

Associate Professor DAI Bing Tian presents paper at ACM Multimedia (MM), Dublin, Ireland

Paper title: "ElaSleepNet: Exploring an Elastic Multimodal Neural Network for Sleep Staging via Temporal and Contextual Consistency Learning"

Assistant Professor ZHANG Zhiyuan presents paper at ACM Multimedia (MM), Dublin, Ireland

Paper title: "LSFDNet: A Single-Stage Fusion and Detection Network for Ships Using SWIR and LWIR"

Professor NGO Chong Wah presents paper at ACM Multimedia (MM), Dublin, Ireland

Paper title: "Mitigating Cross-modal Representation Bias for Multicultural Image-to-Recipe Retrieval"

Associate Professor WANG Hai attends INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS) to chair the session TSL best dissertation award and TSL data-driven research challeng. He also have a paper on the conference. Atlanta, Georgia

Paper title: "Urban Delivery with a Coordinated Fleet of Trucks and Drones"

Professor LAU Hoong Chuin presents paper at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) , Bologna , Italy

Paper title: "Search Trajectory Network-Enhanced Multi-Objective Dynamic Algorithm Configuration"

Assistant Professor Zhu Bin presents papers at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, Hawai'i

Paper title: "From Holistic to Localized: Local Enhanced Adapters for Efficient Visual Instruction Fine-Tuning"

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng presents papers at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, Hawai'i

Paper titles: "Stable Score Distillation; Stroke2Sketch: Harnessing Stroke Attributes for Training-Free Sketch Generation; Instance-Level Video Depth in Groups Beyond Occlusions; Seeing 3D Through 2D Lenses: 3D Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Cross-Modal Geometric Rectification; ViewSRD: 3D Visual Grounding via Structured Multi-View Decomposition; Cross-Subject Mind Decoding from Inaccurate Representations; OmniVTON: Training-Free Universal Virtual Try-On"

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong presents papers at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Honolulu, Hawai'i

Paper titles: "Fine-grained Abnormality Prompt Learning for Zero-shot Anomaly Detection”; “Auxiliary Prompt Tuning of Vision-Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection"

Associate Professor SUN Qianru presents paper at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , Honolulu, Hawai'i

Paper title: "Unsupervised Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Preference Optimization"

Associate Professor Christopher Michael POSKITT presents paper at International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), Gold Coast, Australia

Paper title: "Developing a Strong CPS Defender: An Evolutionary Approach"

Associate Professor Tony TANG presents paper at ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing; Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW; PACM HCI) , Bergen, Norway

Paper title: "Rethinking Teaching Evaluation Reports: Designing AI-transformed Student Feedback for Instructor Engagement"

Professor DING Xuhua presents paper at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Taipei, Taiwan

Paper title: "A System Framework to Symbolically Explore Intel TDX Module Execution"

Professor SUN Jun gives a keynote talk at LMPL and presents paper at ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) , Singapore

Paper title: "Verification of Bit-Flip Attacks against Quantized Neural Networks" Keynote title: "AI Safety through Programming?"

Assistant Professor Kotaro HARA presents paper at ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), Espoo, Finland

Paper title: "Map as a By-product: Collective Landmark Mapping from IMU Data and User-provided Texts in Situated Tasks"

Assistant Professor Thivya KANDAPPU host workshop, BodySys 2025 and presents paper at ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), Espoo, Finland

Paper title: "EyeTrAES: Fine-grained, Low-Latency Eye Tracking via Adaptive Event Slicing"

Associate Professor YANG Guomin attends the 19th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security (ProvSec 2025) as a Program Co-Chair, Yokohama, Japan

Assistant Professor ZHANG Zhiyuan present papers at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Vienna, Austria

Paper titles: "1. YOLOv8-CTCD: An Improved YOLOv8 for Cherry Tomato Cluster Detection in Robotic Harvesting 2. Detection of Incomplete Root Canal Obturations in Dental X-ray Images via Spatial-Semantic Attention and Dynamic Feature Calibration"

Professor Rajesh Krishna BALAN presents paper at ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Busan, Korea

Paper title: "EmoShortcuts: Emotionally Expressive Body Augmentation for Social Mixed Reality Avatars"

Assistant Professor Thivya KANDAPPU presents paper at ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Busan, Korea

Paper title: "EmoShortcuts: Emotionally Expressive Body Augmentation for Social Mixed Reality Avatar"

Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei attends International Sports Analytics Conference and Exhibition (ISACE) as a program co-chair, Shanghai, China

Assistant Professor LEE Min Hun presents poster at annual workshop of Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making, CMU, Pittsburgh

Poster title: "Enabling Human-AI Collaborative Decision-Making in Healthcare: Towards Interactive and Trustworthy AI"

Assistant Professor CAO Zhiguang gives keynote speech at DSO Workshop at ECML-PKDD 2025, Porto, Portugal

Title: "Towards Foundation Models for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems"

Associate Professor Aldy GUNAWAN presents paper at International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL), Rotterdam

Paper title: "Two-Echelon Inventory Routing Problem with Occasional Drivers"

Professor David LO gives keynote speech at International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) 2025, New Zealand.

Keynote titled "Code, Critique, Cure: AI-Augmented Software Maintenance"

Associate Professor WANG Zhaoxia presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , Guangzhou, China

Paper title: "Counterfactual Thinking Driven Emotion Regulation for Image Sentiment Recognition"

Assistant Professor LI Zhize presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Guangzhou, China

Paper title: "SIFAR: A Simple Faster Accelerated Variance-Reduced Gradient Method"

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Guangzhou, China

Paper title: "#1: FreqLLM: Bridging Frequency and Language for Enhanced Time Series Forecasting Full paper #2: Zero-shot Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection with Unified Neighborhood Prompts Tutorial: Deep Learning for Graph Anomaly Detection"

Assistant Professor CAO Zhiguang presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Guangzhou, China

Paper title: "Coupling Category Alignment for Graph Domain Adaptation"

Assistant Professor Djordje ZIKELIC presents paper at International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR) , Denmark

Paper title: "Omega-regular Verification and Control for Distributional Specifications in MDPs"

Professor Robert DENG gives Keynote at Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) CPSS Workshop and attend AsiaCCS steering committee meeting, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Title: "Efficient security and privacy protocols for IoT networks and applications"

Assistant Professor LEE Min Hun presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , Montreal, Canada

Paper title: "AI-Assisted Triage and Decision Support of Head and Neck Cancer Screening and Diagnosis in Low-Resourced Settings"

Professor TAN Ah Hwee presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Montreal, Canada

Paper title: "L2M2: A Hierarchical Framework Integrating Large Language Model and Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning"

Assistant Professor MA Dong attends 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things and Systems (AIoTSys'25) as one of the Program Co-chairs, Lanzhou, China

Professor SIAU Keng Leng presents paper at Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Montréal, Canada

Paper title: "Artificial Intelligence Governance: Legal and Regulatory Issues"

Professor Fiona NAH presents papers at Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) , Montréal, Canada

Paper titles: "(i) AI-Assisted Risk Assessment in Generative AI Governance, and (ii) Role of Social Media Mindfulness in Combatting Fake News Propagation"

Professor DING Xuhua presents paper at USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX) , Seattle, WA, USA

Paper title: "Oblivious Digital Tokens"

Assistant Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at ACM SIG KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Toronto, ON, Canada

Paper title: "Non-Homophilic Graph Pre-Training and Prompt Learning"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi presents papers at Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vienna, Austria

Paper titles: "1. Debate, Reflect, and Distill: Multi-Agent Feedback with Tree-Structured Preference Optimization for Efficient Language Model Enhancement 2. Colloquial Singaporean English Style Transfer with Fine-Grained Explainable Control"

Professor LIM Ee-Peng paper accepted at Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vienna, Austria

Paper title: "CAMI: A Counselor Agent Supporting Motivational Interviewing through State Inference and Topic Exploration"

Professor Kyriakos MOURATIDIS presents paper at Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Vienna, Austria

Paper title: "FOCUS: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Underspecification Reasoning"

Associate Professor GAO Wei presents paper at Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vienna, Austria

Paper title: "Sparse-to-Dense: A Free Lunch for Lossless Acceleration of Video Understanding in LLMs"

Assistant Professor DENG Yang presents papers at Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Vienna, Austria

Paper titles: "1. Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models: A Survey; 2. FACT-AUDIT: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Dynamic Fact-Checking Evaluation of Large Language Models; 3. How to Enable Effective Cooperation Between Humans and NLP Models: A Survey of Principles, Formalizations, and Beyond; 4. EvoWiki: Evaluating LLMs on Evolving Knowledge; 5. Beware of Your Po! Measuring and Mitigating AI Safety Risks in Role-Play Fine-Tuning of LLMs; 6. Browsing Like Human: A Multimodal Web Agent with Experiential Fast-and-Slow Thinking"

Assistant Professor Djordje ZIKELIC presents paper at International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) , Zagreb, Croatia

Paper title: "Supermartingale Certificates for Quantitative Omega-regular Verification and Control"

Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW presents paper at Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Paper title: "Optimal Transport Alignment of User Preferences from Ratings and Texts"

Professor LAU Hoong Chuin presents paper at INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS) , Singapore

Paper title: "Quantum Optimization Techniques for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Benchmark Problems"

Professor David LO gives Most Influential Paper award talk at 25th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2025), Hangzhou, China

Paper title: "Deep Learning for Just-in-Time Defect Prediction"

Assistant Professor ZHANG Zhiyuan presents paper at Computer Graphics International (CGI) , Hong Kong

Paper title: "WA-FDNet: A Unified Weight Adaptation Network for Multimodal Image Fusion and Object Detection"

Associate Professor YANG Guomin presents paper at Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP), Wollongong, Australia

Paper title: "Strong Federated Authentication With Password-based Credential Against Identity Server Corruption"

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng presents papers at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Virtual

Paper titles: "Action Dubber: Timing Audible Actions via Inflectional Flow; Instruct2See: Learning to Remove Any Obstructions Across Distributions"

Assistant Professor Antoine LEDENT presents paper at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , Vancouver

Paper title: "Generalization Analysis for Contrastive Representation Learning under Non-IID Settings"

Assistant Professor CAO Zhiguang presents paper at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Virtual

Paper title: "A Mixed-Curvature based Pre-training Paradigm for Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver"

Assistant Professor ZHOU Pan presents papers at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , Vancouver

Paper titles: "1. HPS: Hard Preference Sampling for Human Preference Alignment, 2. Probabilistic Interactive 3D Segmentation with Hierarchical Neural Processes"

Assistant Professor MA Yunshan presents papers at ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Padua, Italy

Paper title: "FashionDPO: Fine-tune Fashion Outfit Generation Model using Direct Preference Optimization"

Assistant Professor DENG Yang presents papers at ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Padua, Italy

Paper title: "1. Unveiling Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models for Trustworthy Information Access 2. Proactive Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Survey of Advancements and Opportunities"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi presents paper at ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Padua, Italy

Paper title: "Simulating Before Planning: Constructing Intrinsic User World Model for User-Tailored Dialogue Policy Planning"

Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei attends International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) as Co-Program Chair, Hangzhou, China

Associate Professor SHAR Lwin Khin presents paper at International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Hangzhou, China

Paper title: "Runtime Anomaly Detection for Drones: An Integrated Rule-Mining and Unsupervised Learning Approach"

Assistant Professor ZHANG Zhiyuan presents papers at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) , Virtual

Paper titles: "1. HDiffTG: A Lightweight Hybrid Diffusion-Transformer-GCN Architecture for 3D Human Pose Estimation 2. TS-Diff: Two-Stage Diffusion Model for Low-Light RAW Image Enhancement 3. A Dental Periapical X-ray Images Segmentation Network Based on Pixel-Wise Contrastive Learning with Dual Attention Mechanisms"

Associate Professor WANG Zhaoxia presents paper at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) , Rome, Italy

Paper title: "LLMs at the Edge: Performance and Efficiency Evaluation with Ollama on Diverse Hardware"

Assistant Professor Bin ZHU presents paper at IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) , Nantes, France

Paper title: "Efficient Prompt Tuning for Hierarchical Ingredient Recognition"

Professor NGO Chong Wah presents paper at ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) , Chicago, USA

Paper title: "Robust Relevance Feedback for Interactive Known-Item Video Search"

Assistant Professor Bin ZHU presnents paper at ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) , Chicago, USA

Paper title: "Advancing Food Nutrition Estimation via Visual-Ingredient Feature Fusion"

Associate Professor OUH Eng Lieh presents paper at ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ITiCSE), Netherlands

Paper title: "Evalua􀆟ng ChatGPT to answer Mul􀆟-Modal Exercises in Computer Science Educa􀆟on"

Professor David LO attends ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) as Steering Committee member as well as award paper talk, Trondheim, Norway

Paper title: "How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research"

Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei presents papers at ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) , Trondheim, Norway

Paper titles: "Paper1: RegTrieve: Reducing System-Level Regression Errors for Machine Learning Systems via Retrieval-Enhanced Ensemble Paper 2: CAShift: Benchmarking Log-Based Cloud Attack Detection under Normality Shift Paper 3: Demystifying Memorization in LLM-based Program Repair via a General Hypothesis Testing Framework"

Assistant Professor HUO Yintong presents paper at ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Trondheim, Norway

Paper title: "Divide-and-Conquer: Generating UI Code from Screenshots"

Professor Debin GAO presents paper at ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Trondheim, Norway

Paper title: "DynDebloater: Dynamically Debloating Unwanted Features of Android Apps without APK Modification"

Assistant Professor LEE Min Hun presents paper at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), Athens, Greece

Paper title: "Towards Uncertainty Aware Task Delegation and Human-AI Collaborative Decision-Making"

Professor Kyriakos MOURATIDIS presents paper at ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data, Berlin, Germany

Paper title: "AlayaDB: The Data Foundation for Efficient and Effective Long-context LLM Inference"

Associate Professor LI Yuchen presents paper at ACM SIG on Management of Data (SIGMOD) , Berlin, Germany

Paper title: "Community Detection in Heterogeneous Information Networks Without Materialization"

Professor LAU Hoong Chuin presents paper at The 19th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference, (LION19 Scope), Virtual

Paper title: "Autoregressive RL Approach for Mixed-Integer Linear Programs"

Assistant Professor LEE Min Hun's paper accepted at The 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2025), Sydney, Australia

Paper title: "A Multimodal Fusion Model Leveraging MLP Mixer and Handcrafted Features-based Deep Learning Networks for Facial Palsy Detection"

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong presents paper at Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Sydney, Australia

Paper title: "Adapting Large Language Models for Parameter-Efficient Log Anomaly Detection"

Professor LAU Hoong Chuin presents paper at International Conference on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Paper title: "Next generation workforce scheduling with AI"

Professor LIM Ee-Peng attends International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) 2025, Singapore, as Committee Chair

Associate Professor Akshat KUMAR have paper publised at International Conference on Autonomous Agent and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Detroit, Michigan, USA

Paper title: "ShipNaviSim: Data-Driven Simulation for Real-World Maritime Navigation"

Assistant Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Virtual

Paper titel: "Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models for Heterophilic Graphs"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi presents paper at The Web Conference (WWW), Sydney, Australia

Paper title: "Towards Multimodal Empathetic Response Generation: A Rich Text-Speech-Vision Avatar-based Benchmark"

Associate Professor LI Yuchen presents paper at The Web Conference (WWW) , Sydney, Australia

Paper title: "SANS: Efficient Densest Subgraph Discovery over Relational Graphs without Materialization"

Assistant Professor DUAN Yue presents paper at The Web Conference (WWW) , Sydney, Australia

Paper title: "SigScope: Detecting and Understanding Off-Chain Message Signing-related Vulnerabilities in Decentralized Applications"

Assistant Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at The Web Conference (WWW) , Sydney, Australia

Paper title: "SAMGPT: Text-free Graph Foundation Model for Multi-domain Pre-training and Cross-domain Adaptation"

Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei presents papers at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Paper titles: "Dissecting Global Search: A Simple Yet Effective Method to Boost Individual Discrimination Testing and Repair" and "Intention is All You Need: Refining Your Code from Your Intention"

Professor David LO attends ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2025 as Program Co-Chair of ICSE 2025, General Co-Chair of FORGE 2025, and to give a keynote at RAIE 2025 at the invitation of the organiser and to give a talk at MSR 2025, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Professor SUN Jun presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Paper title: "FixDrive: Automatically Repairing Autonomous Vehicle Driving Behaviour for $0.08 per Violation" and "LLM-aided Automatic Modeling for Security Protocol Verification"

Associate Professor Chris POSKITT presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Paper title: "FixDrive: Automatically Repairing Autonomous Vehicle Driving Behaviour for $0.08 per Violation"

Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW attends The Web Conference (WWW) , Sydney, as Program Co-chair

Assistant Professor LI Jiannan presents paper at International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) , Yokohama, Japan

Paper title: "Prompting an Embodied AI Agent: How Embodiment and Multimodal Signaling Affects Prompting Behaviour"

Associate Professor Tony TANG presents paper at International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Yokohama, Japan

Paper title: "Enhancing Deliberativeness: Evaluating the Impact of Multimodal Reflection Nudges"

Professor Fiona NAH presents papaer at International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) , Yokohama, Japan

Paper title : " "Ronaldo's a poser": How the Use of GenAI Shapes Debates in Online Forums"

Assistant Professor Kotaro HARA presents paper at International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Yokohama, Japan

Paper title: "“I can run at night!": Using Augmented Reality to Support Nighttime Guided Running for Low-vision Runners"

Assistant Professor MA Dong presents paper at International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Yokohama, Japan

Paper title: "SmarTeeth: Augmenting Manual Toothbrushing with In-ear Microphones"

Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM presents papers at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , Singapore

Paper titles: "1. On Generalization Within Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Algorithms 2. On Minimizing Adversarial Counterfactual Error in Adversarial Reinforcement Learning 3. On Semantic Loss-Guided Data-Efficient Supervised Fine-Tuning for Safe Responses in LLMs"

Professor David LO presents paper at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , Singapore

Paper title: "BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions"

Assistant Professor ZHOU Pan presents papers at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , Singapore

Paper titles: "1. TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING WHY FIXMATCH GENER- ALIZES BETTER THAN SUPERVISED LEARNING 2. CAPO: COOPERATIVE PLAN OPTIMIZATION FOR EFFI- CIENT EMBODIED MULTI-AGENT COOPERATION"

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong presents paper at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Singapore

Paper title: "Open-set graph anomaly detection via normal structure regularisation"

Assistant Professor CAO Zhiguang presents paper at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Singapore

Paper title: "Adversarial Generative Flow Network for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems"

Assistant Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Singapore

Paper title: "NODE-TIME CONDITIONAL PROMPT LEARNING IN DYNAMIC GRAPHS"

Associate Professor SUN Qianru presents paper at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Singapore

Paper title: "Frame-Voyager: Learning to Query Frames for Video Large Language Models"

Assistant Professor MAI Anh Tien presents paper at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , Singapore

Paper title: "ComaDICE: Offline Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Stationary Distribution Shift Regularization"

Associate Professor Aldy GUNAWAN presents paper at Evostar 2025, Virtual

Paper title: "A Selective Vehicle Routing Problem for the Bloodmobile System"

Assistant Professor ZHANG Zhiyuan presents paper at The Computational Visual Media Conference (CVM), Hong Kong

Paper title: "Bridging the Modality Gap: Advancing Multimodal Human Pose Estimation with Modality-Adaptive Pose Estimator and Novel Benchmark Datasets"

Associate Professor Don TA presents paper at the International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), Portugal

Paper title: "ADA-Gen: Iterative and Incremental Generation of Full-Stack Apps for Learning Agile/DevOps Software Development Practices"

Associate Professor Aldy GUNAWAN presents paper at the International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), Portugal

Paper title: "On unraveling student resilience and academic performance in higher education"

Lecturer LAU Yi Meng presents paper at the International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Virtual

Paper title: "Use of Search Tools in Software Development: A Study of Microservice-Based Team Projects"

Professor Michelle CHEONG presents paper at the International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Virtual

Paper title: "Does ChatGPT-Permitted Assessments Help Students Generate Better Answers and Learn More?"

Professor David LO gives keynote at 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2025), Odense, Denmark

Keynote title: "LLMs for Engineering and Architecting Software: What Works, What’s Missing, and What’s Next?"

Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW presents paper at International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Barcelona

Paper title: "Selecting Comparative Sets of Reviews Across Multiple Items"

Professor LIM Ee-Peng gives keynote speech at Symposium on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Good 2025 (DSAI4👍🏻), Hong Kong.

Assistant Professor MA Dong presents papers at IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Washington DC, USA

Paper titles: "[1] RespEar: Earable-Based Robust Respiratory Rate Monitoring [2] WalkEar: Holistic Gait Monitoring using Earables [3] Improving Responsiveness of Fall Detection using Spiking Neural Networks"

Associate Professor WANG Zhaoxia presents paper at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) as well as co-chair the conference symposium, Norway

Paper title: "Optimizing Chinese-to-English Translation with Large Language Models"

Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW presents paper at ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Hannover, Germany

Paper title: "VARIUM: Variational Autoencoder for Multi-Interest Representation with Inter-User Memory"

Associate Professor Tony TANG attends 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Melbourne, Australia

Paper title: "ImageInThat: Manipulating Images to Convey User Instructions to Robots"

Assistant Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Virtual

Paper title: "Learning to Identify Seen, Unseen and Unknown in the OpenWorld: A Practical Setting for Zero-Shot Learning"

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng has paper accepted at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Paper title: "Occlusion-Insensitive Talking Head Video Generation via Facelet Compensation; PersonaMagic: Stage-Regulated High-Fidelity Face Customization with Tandem Equilibrium; Adversarial Attacks on Event-Based Pedestrian Detectors: A Physical Approach; Dr. Tongue: Sign-Oriented Multi-label Detection for Remote Tongue Diagnosis"

Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM presents paper at The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Paper title: "Marginal Benefit Driven RL Teacher for Unsupervised Environment Design"

Assistant Professor Zhize LI presents paper at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Paper titel: "EFSkip: A New Error Feedback with Linear Speedup for Compressed Federated Learning with Arbitrary Data Heterogeneity"

Assistant Professor Djordje ZIKELIC presents papers at The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Paper titles: "1. Neural Control and Certificate Repair via Runtime Monitoring 2. Quantified Linear and Polynomial Arithmetic Satisfiability via Template-based Skolemization"

Assistant Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Paper title: "Unlocking the Potential of Black-box Pre-trained GNNs for Graph Few-shot Learning"

Assistant Professor ZHU Bin presents paper at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Paper title: "Hand1000: Generating Realistic Hands from Text with Only 1,000 Images"

Assistant Professor Antoine LEDENT presents paper at Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Paper title: "Explainable Neural Networks with Guarantee: A Sparse Estimation Approach; Generalization Analysis for Deep Contrastive Representation Learning"

Associate Professor Debin GAO presents paper at Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, California

Paper title: "Density Boosts Everything: A One-stop Strategy for Improving Performance, Robustness, and Sustainability of Malware Detector"

Assistant Professor Bin ZHU attends Multimedia Modelling 2025 as Demo Award Committee member, Nara, Japan

Professor NGO Chong Wah attends Multimedia Modelling 2025 as Program Coordinator as well as present paper, Nara, Japan

Paper title: "LLMs-based Augmentation for Domain Adaptation in Long-tailed Food Datasets"

AXA Chair Professor Robert DENG gives keynote talk at International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024), Changsha, China

Title: "Privacy Preserving Service Discovery in Wireless Communications"

Associate Professor MA Dan presents paper at Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) , Bangkok, Thailand

Paper title: "Bug Bounty Programs for third-party software: adoption strategy and effectiveness analysis"

Professor Fiona NAH presents paper at Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) , Bangkok, Thailand

Paper title: "Brain Synchronization Dimensionality and Flow Experience: A Video Gaming Study Using Electroencephalogram"

Professor SIAU Keng Leng presents paper at Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) , Bangkok, Thailand

Paper title: "(i) Physician-AI Collaboration: Effect of Bias and Discrimination Information Transparency (ii) Unveiling Online Investor Attention: A Social-Knowledge Graph Approach Towards Personalized Stock Recommendations"

Associate Professor Debin GAO presents paper at The IEEE TrustCom-2024 (23rd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications), Sanya, China

Paper title: "Custom Permission Misconfigurations in Android: A Large-Scale Security Analysis"

Professor Fiona NAH presents paper at International Conference on Information Systems 2024 (ICIS),. Bangkok , Thailand

Paper title: "User Acceptance of Advice by AI Agents: Expectation-System Fit Perspective"

Professor SIAU Keng Leng presents paper at International Conference on Information Systems 2024 (ICIS),. Bangkok , Thailand

Paper title: "Virtual Conferencing Fatigue: Look-alike Avatar and Facial Attractiveness"

Assistant Professor KE Ping Fan presents paper at The 13th SIGBIT Workshop on Web3 Ecosystems and Artificial Intelligence, Bangkok, Thailand

Paper title: "A Community-Driven Framework to Evaluate Factors Influencing NFT Buyers"

Associate Professor TANG Qian presents paper at The Workshop on E-Business 2024, Bangkok, Thailand

Paper title: "How Reviews for Online Healthcare Services Affect Physician Performance?"

Assistant Professor KE Ping Fan presents abstract paper at First Macau International Conference on Business Intelligence and Analytics, Macau

Paper title: "Use of Large Language Models in Survey Development"

Assistant Professor CAO Zhiguang presents papers at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , Vancouver

Paper title: "Collaboration! Towards Robust Neural Methods for Routing Problems"

Assistant Professor Thivya KANDAPPU presents papers at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , Vancouver

Paper title: "EyeGraph: Modularity-aware Spatio Temporal Graph Clustering for Continuous Event-based Eye Tracking"

Assistant Professor ZHOU Pan presents papers at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , Vancouver

Paper titles: "1) Unsupervised Modality Adaptation with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Semantic Segmentation 2) LOVA3: Learning to Visual Question Answering, Asking and Assessment 3) 4-bit Shampoo for Memory-Efficient Network Training 4) MVGamba: Unify 3D Content Generation as State Space Sequence Modeling"

Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM presents papers at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver

Paper titles: "1. Improving Environment Novelty Quantification for Effective Unsupervised Environment Design 2. Safety through feedback in Constrained RL 3. SPRINQL: Sub-optimal Demonstrations driven Offline Imitation Learning"

Assistant Professor MAI Anh Tien presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver

Paper title: "Inverse Factorized Soft Q-Learning for Cooperative Multi-agent Imitation Learning"

Associate Professor SUN Qianru presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver

Paper titles: "1- Learning De-Biased Representations for Remote-Sensing Imagery; 2- Towards Unified Multimodal Editing with Enhanced Knowledge Collaboration; 3- Unified Generative and Discriminative Training for Multi-modal Large Language Models"

Professor TAN Ah Hwee attends 2024 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'24) as General Co-Chair of the conference, Bangkok, Thailand

Paper title: "Self-Supervised Fine-tuning for Neural Expert Finding" - presented by co-author

Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW presents paper at The 16th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, Hanoi, Vietnam

Paper title: "Learning to Rank Aspects and Opinions for Comparative Explanations"

Professor David LO gives keynote speech at Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Chongqing, China

Title: "Efficient and Green Code LLMs: Happier Software Engineers, Happier Planet"

Professor SUN Jun attends Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) as Committee Chair, Chongqing, China

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi have paper publised at Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

Paper title: "Thoughts to Target: Enhance Planning for Target-driven Conversation"

Assistant Professor DENG Yang presents papers at Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Miami, Florida

Paper titles: "[1] Gotcha! Don't trick me with unanswerable questions! Self-aligning Large Language Models for Proactively Responding to Unknown Questions [2] Consecutive Batch Model Editing with HooK Layers [3] Unlocking Markets: A Multilingual Benchmark to Cross-Market Question Answering [4] Strength Lies in Differences! Towards Effective Non-collaborative Dialogues via Tailored Strategy Planning [5] Thoughts to Target: Enhance Planning for Target-driven Conversation"

Professor Robert DENG gives keynote talk at Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Systems Researchers Meet at UNSW, Sydney

Professor Rajesh Krishna BALAN presents paper at The 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), San José, Costa Rica

Paper title: "W4-Groups: Modeling the Who, What, When and Where of Group Behavior via Mobility Sensing"

Professor Kyriakos MOURATIDIS attends ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL) as Vice Program Committee Chair, Atlanta, GA, USA

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng presents papers at ACM Multimedia 2024, Virtual

Paper titles: "1. Portrait Shadow Removal via Self-Exemplar Illumination Equalization; 2. DenseTrack: Drone-based Crowd Tracking via Density-aware Motion-appearance Synergy; 3. VrdONE: One-stage Video Visual Relation Detection"

Lee Kong Chian Professor NGO Chong Wah presents paper at ACM Multimedia 2024, Melbourne, Australia

Paper title: "Hi3D: Pursuing High-Resolution Image-to-3D Generation with Video Diffusion Models"

Assistant Professor Bin ZHU presents paper at ACM Multimedia 2024, Melbourne, Australia

Paper title: "Navigating Weight Prediction with Diet Diary"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi presents paper at ACM Multimedia 2024, Melbourne, Australia

Paper title: "Self-Adaptive Fine-grained Multi-modal Data Augmentation for Semi-supervised Muti-modal Coreference Resolution"

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong presents papers at ACM Multimedia 2024, Melbourne, Australia

Paper titles: "1st paper: "Improving Open-World Classification with Disentangled Foreground and Background Features"; 2nd paper: "Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection and Localization with Spatio-Temporal Prompts"

Associate Professor SUN Qianru gives Workshop Keynote Speech at ACM Multimedia 2024, Melbourne, Australia

Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei presents paper at IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Tsukuba, Japan

Paper title: "Themis: Automatic and Efficient Deep Learning System Testing with Strong Fault Detection Capability"

Associate Professor YANG Guomin gives keynote at EAI SecureComm conference 2024, Dubai

Title: "Privacy Enhancing Technologies for IoT and Decentralized Systems: Approaches and Challenges"

Professor SIAU Keng Leng presents paper and chair a panel on AI at International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB), Zhuhai, China

Paper title: "Artificial Intelligence: Legal and Regulatory Issues"

Professor SIAU Keng Leng gives keynote speech at RobotWorld 2024 in Seoul, Korea

Professor David LO gives keynote talk at ESEM 2024, presents paper at ASE and gives keynote talk at ISSRE, Barcelona, Spain; California, United States and Tsukuba, Japan

Paper title: "B4: Towards Optimal Assessment of Plausible Code Solutions with Plausible Tests"

Assistant Professor Djordje ZIKELIC presents paper at ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2024), California, USA

Paper title: "Quantitative Bounds on Resource Usage of Probabilistic Programs"

Associate Professor WANG Hai presents paper at 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. He is also the Committee Chair for the TSL Data-Driven Research Challenge.

Paper title: "Assessing and Explaining Urban Transportation Network Efficiency"

Associate Professor TANG Qian attends INFORMS Annual Meeting as Committee Chair, Seattle, Washington

Assistant Professor LEE Min Hun presents paper at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Santiago de Compostela

Paper tiel: "Interactive Example-based Explanations to Improve Health Professionals' Onboarding with AI for Human-AI Collaborative Decision Making"

Assistant Professor LI Jiannan presents paper at ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Pittsburgh

Paper title: "Desk2Desk: Optimization-based Mixed Reality Workspace Integration for Remote Side-by-side Collaboration"

Professor Rajesh Krishna BALAN presents paper at ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Pittsburgh

Paper title: "GradualReality: Enhancing Physical Object Interaction in Virtual Reality via Interaction State-Aware Blending"

Associate Professor Tony TANG presents paper at ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Pittsburgh

Paper title: "Predicting the Limits: Tailoring Unnoticeable Hand Redirection Offsets in Virtual Reality to Individuals’ Perceptual Boundaries"

Assistant Professor Kotaro HARA presents paper at ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) , Melbourne, Australia

Paper title: "Conversational Localization: Indoor Human Localization through Intelligent Conversation"

Assistant Professor MA Dong presents paper at ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), Melbourne, Australia

Paper title: "ClearSpeech: Improving Voice Quality of Earbuds Using Both In-Ear and Out-Ear Microphones"

Assistant Professor ZHOU Pan presents paper at European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Milan, Italy

Paper titles: "1) Efficient Cascaded Multiscale Adaptive Network for Image Restoration 2) GENIXER: Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models as a Powerful Data Generator"

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng presents paper at The 18th European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2024, Milan, Italy

Paper titles: "1. OneRestore: A Universal Restoration Framework for Composite Degradation 2. Zero-shot Object Counting with Good Exemplars 3. Beat-It: Beat-Synchronized Multi-Condition 3D Dance Generation 4. RePOSE: 3D Human Pose Estimation via Spatio-Temporal Depth Relational Consistency"

Assistant Professor Bin ZHU presents paper at European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Milan, Italy

Paper title: "Enhancing Recipe Retrieval with Foundation Models: A Data Augmentation Perspective"

Assistant Professor ZHANG Zhiyuan presents paper at European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Milan, Italy

Paper title: "RISurConv: Rotation Invariant Surface Attention-Augmented Convolutions for 3D Point Cloud Classification and Segmentation"

Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei presents paper at International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), Vienna, Austria

Paper title: "FT2Ra: A Fine-Tuning-Inspired Approach to Retrieval-Augmented Code Completion Bugs in Pods: Understanding Bugs in Container Runtime Systems"

Professor LAU Hoong Chuin presents paper at IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) 2024, Canada

Paper title: "Quantum-Enhanced Simulation-Based Optimization for Newsvendor Problems"

Associate Professor SHAR Lwin Khin presents paper at 28th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2024), Virtual

Paper title: "Empirical Evaluation of Hyper-parameter Optimization Techniques for Deep Learning-based Malware Detectors"

Professor Rajesh Krishna BALAN attends Global AI Summit as Speaker, Saudi Arabia

Professor SUN Jun presents paper at International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM), Milan, Italy

Paper title: "Certified Quantization Strategy Synthesis for Neural Networks"

Assistant Professor Djordje ZIKELIC presents paper at International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM), Milan, Italy

Paper title: "Sound and Complete Witnesses for Template-based Verification of LTL Properties on Polynomial Programs"

Senior Lecturer FWA Hua Leong presents paper at 16th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, Virtual

Paper title: "Retrofitting a Legacy Cutlery Washing Machine using Computer Vision"

Associate Professor Aldy GUNAWAN presents paper at IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) , Bari, Italy

Paper title: "A two-stage matheuristic for the home healthcare routing and scheduling problem with perishable products"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi attends Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 24352, Germany

This invitation-only Dagstuhl Seminars and Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops foster new directions and fields in computer science.

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong presents paper at ACM SIG KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Barcelona, Spain

Paper title: "Cluster-Wide Task Slowdown Detection"

Professor Kyriakos MOURATIDIS presents paper at ACM SIG KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Barcelona, Spain

Paper title: "How to Avoid Jumping to Conclusions: Measuring the Robustness of Outstanding Facts in Knowledge Graphs"

Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW attends ACM SIG KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) as Program Chair for KDD25 conference, Barcelona

Assistant Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at ACM SIG KDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Barcelona, Spain

Paper title: "A Learned Generalized Geodesic Distance Function Based Approach For Node Feature Augmentation On Graphs"

Associate Professor Debin GAO presents paper at USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), Philadelpha

Paper title: "Peep With A Mirror: Breaking The Integrity of Android App Sandboxing via Unprivileged Cache Side Channel"

Professor LIM Ee-Peng presents paper at Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Bangkok, Thailand

Paper title: "Speaker Verification in Agent-generated Conversations"

Lee Kong Chian Professor NGO Chong Wah attends Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the 3rd LLM Summit , Bangkok, Thailand

Associate Professor GAO Wei presents papers at Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) , Bangkok, Thailand

Paper title: "JustiLM: Few-shot Justification Generation for Explainable Fact-Checking of Real-world Claims"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi presents papers at Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Bangkok, Thailand

Paper titles: "1. Planning Like Human: A Dual-process Framework for Dialogue Planning 2. Self-chats from Large Language Models Make Small ChatPal Better 3. Analyzing Temporal Complex Events with Large Language Models? A Benchmark towards Temporal, Long Context Understanding 4. Synergizing Large Language Models and Pre-Trained Smaller Models for Conversational Intent Discovery"

Assistant Professor DENG Yang presents paper at Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Bangkok, Thailand

Paper title: "On the Multi-turn Instruction Following for Conversational Web Agents"

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong deliver keynote talk at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , Jeju, S. Korea

Keynote title: "Anomaly Detection with Foundation Models (ADFM 2024)"

Assistant Professor LEE Min Hun presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , Jeju, S. Korea

Paper title: "Exploring a Multimodal Fusion Deep Learning Network for Detecting Facial Palsy"

Assistant Professor Djordje ZIKELIC presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , Jeju, S. Korea

Paper title: "Certified Policy Verification and Synthesis for MDPs under Distributional Reach-avoidance Properties"

Assistant Professor DAI Bing Tian presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , Jeju, S. Korea

Paper title: "Fuel-Saving Route Planning with Data-Driven and Learning-Based Approaches – A Systematic Solution for Harbor Tugs"

Assistant Professor MAI Anh Tien presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , Jeju, S. Korea

Paper title: "Stackelberg Network Interdiction under Boundedly Rational Adversary"

Assistant Professor Antoine LEDENT presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , Jeju, S. Korea

Paper title: "Interpretable Tensor Fusion"

Professor LAU Hoong Chuin presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) , Jeju, S. Korea

Paper title: "Fuel-Saving Route Planning with Data Driven and Learning Based Approaches – A Systematic Solution for Harbor Tugs"

Associate Professor WANG Zhaoxia presents paper at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jeju, S. Korea

Paper title: "CausVSR: Causality-Inspired Visual Sentiment Recognition"

Associate Professor YANG Guomin gives keynote at the Seventh International Conference on Frontiers in Cyber Security, Chongqing, China

Associate Professor Debin GAO presents poster at International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), Montreal, Canada

Assistant Professor Antoine LEDENT presents paper at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Vienna, Austria

Paper title: "Generalization Analysis of Deep Non-linear Matrix Completion"

Assistant Professor CAO Zhiguang presents paper at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Vienna

Paper title: "MVMoE: Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver with Mixture-of-Experts"

OUB Chair Professor David LO attending ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) , Brazil as Committee Chair

Associate Professor Christoph TREUDE presents paper at ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Brazil

Paper title: "Generative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi presents papers at ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Washington DC , USA

Paper titles: "Broadening the View: Demonstration-augmented Prompt Learning for Conversational Recommendation" and "Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational Agents"

Associate Professor Debin GAO presents paper at IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) , Vienna

Paper title: "MtdScout: Complementing the Identification of Insecure Methods in Android Apps via Source-to-Bytecode Signature Generation and Tree-based Layered Search"

Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW presents paper at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Brazil

Paper title: "Towards Automated Slide Augmentation to Discover Credible and Relevant Links"

Associate Professor DING Xuhua presents paper at Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), Singapore

Paper title: "ESem: To Harden Process Synchronization for Servers"

Associate Professor Benjamin GAN presents paper at Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) , Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Paper title: "A Bottom-Up Multi-Disciplinary Approach for Sustainability Education: UN-SDG 13.3"

Assistant Professor KE Ping Fan presents paper at Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) , Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Paper title: "Exploring the Market Impact of Web3 Identity Imitation in Ethereum Name Service"

Professor TAN Ah Hwee attends International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) , YOKOHAMA, Japan

Paper title: "FedSTEM-ADL: A Federated Spatial-Temporal Episodic Memory Model for ADL Prediction"

Associate Professor TANG Qian presents paper at China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), Xiamen, China

Paper title: "Physician-Patient Interactions in Online Healthcare Communities: The Effects of Preconsultation on Service Delivery and Patient Satisfaction"

Assistant Professor KE Ping Fan presents paper at China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM) , Xiamen, China

Paper title: "Usability versus Collectibility in NFT: The Case of Web3 Domain Names"

Professor TAN Ah Hwee presents paper at 2nd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2024), Singapore

Paper title: "Predicting Mild Cognitive Impairment through Ambient Sensing and Artificial Intelligence"

Associate Professor WANG Hai atends Production and Operations Management Society Annual Conference (POMS) as attendees without paper, Istanbul

Assistant Professor Djordje ZIKELIC presents paper at PLDI 2024, Copenhagen

Paper title: "Equivalence and Similarity Refutation for Probabilistic Programs"

Professor NGO Chong Wah presents paper at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, USA

Paper title: "OVFoodSeg: Elevating Open-Vocabulary Food Image Segmentation via Image-Informed Textual Representation"

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng presents papers at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, USA

Paper titles: 1. Drag Your Noise: Interactive Point-based Editing via Diffusion Semantic Propagation; 2. Beyond Textual Constraints: Learning Novel Diffusion Conditions with Fewer Examples; 3. Learning with Unreliability: Fast Few-shot Voxel Radiance Fields with Relative Geometric Consistency; 4. D3still: Decoupled Differential Distillation for Asymmetric Image Retrieval; 5. Rethinking Multi-view Representation Learning via Distilled Disentangling;

Professor LIM Ee-Peng presents paper at North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Virtual

Paper title: "The Whole is Better than the Sum: Using Aggregated Demonstrations in In-Context Learning for Sequential Recommendation"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi attends ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) to join the diversity session as a mentor as well as joining the judging panel at the 7th Annual ACM Workshop on the Lifelog Search Challenge, Phuket, Thailand

Professor NGO Chong Wah presents paper at ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Phuket, Thailand

Paper title: "Improving Interpretable Embeddings for Ad-hoc Video Search with Generative Captions and Multi-word Concept Bank"

Associate Professor Swapna GOTTIPATI representing SMU in the panel at EduData Summit 2024 and presenting on the topic "Recruitment and machine learning".

Assistant Professor MA Dong presents paper at ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), Tokyo, Japan

Paper title: "Detecting Foot Strikes during Running with Earbuds"

Professor Rajesh Krishna BALAN presents paper at ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) , Tokyo, Japan

Paper title: "Understanding of Sensors for Various Physiological Tasks"

Professor LAU Hoong Chuin attends International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) , Banff, Alberta, Canada

Paper title: "Online Control of Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Using Deep Reinforcement Learning"

Assistant Professor CAO Yixin attends International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) as Committee Chair, Torino (Italy)

Associate Professor YANG Guomin presents paper at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) , San Francisco, USA

Paper title: "Make Revocation Cheaper: Hardware-Based Revocable Attribute-Based Encryption"

Associate Professor Hady LAUW presents paper at IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Virtual

Paper title: "Topic Modeling on Document Networks with Dirichlet Optimal Transport Barycenter (Extended Abstract)"

Assistant Professor LI Yuchen presents paper at IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Utrecht, Netherlands

Paper title: "Discovering Personalized Characteristic Communities in Attributed Graphs"

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong presents paper at The Web Conference (WWW) as Committee Chair, Singapore

Paper title: "LARA: A Light and Anti-overfitting Retraining Approach for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection"

Assistant Professor CAO Yixin attends The Web Conference (WWW) as Committee Chair, Singapore

Assistant Professor GAO Wei attends The Web Conference (WWW), Singapore

Paper title: "Towards Explainable Harmful Meme Detection through Multimodal Debate between Large Language Models"

Professor JIANG Jing attends The Web Conference (WWW), Singapore

Paper title: "Modularized Networks for Few-shot Hateful Meme Detection"

Assistant Professor Antoine LEDENT presents paper at The Web Conference (WWW), Singapore

Paper title: "Unraveling the Dynamics of Stable and Curious Audiences in Web Systems"

Assistant Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at The Web Conference (WWW), Singapore

Paper title: "Diffusion-based Negative Sampling on Graphs for Link Prediction"

Assistant Professor Kotaro HARA presents paper at International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hawaii, USA

Paper title: "SwapVid: Integrating Video Viewing and Document Exploration with Direct Manipulation"

Assistant Professor LI Jiannan presents paper at International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Honolulu, USA

Paper totle: "From Multimedia Content to Multimodal Agents"

Associate Professor Tony TANG attends International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Honolulu

Paper title: "The Impact of Avatar Completeness on Embodiment and the Detectability of Hand Redirection in Virtual Reality"

Associate Professor Manoj THULASIDAS presents paper at IEEE Educon Conference, Greece

Paper title: "Flipped Classroom for Linear Algebra at Undergraduate Level"

Associate Professor Ta Nguyen Binh Duong presents paper at IEEE Educon Conference, Greece

Paper title: "Automatic Grading of Short Answers Using Large Language Models in Software Engineering Courses"

Professor JIANG Jing attends International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , Virtual

Paper title: "Intriguing Properties of Data Attribution on Diffusion Models"

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong presents paper at International Conference on Learning Representations, Vienna, Austria

Paper title: "AnomalyCLIP: Object-agnostic Prompt Learning for Zero-shot Anomaly Detection"

Assistant Professor SUN Qianru presents paper at International Conference on Learning Representations, Vienna, Austria

Paper title: "Exploring Diffusion Time-steps for Unsupervised Representation Learning"

Associate Professor WANG Zhaoxia presents paper and attends Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) as Committee Chair , Taipei, Taiwan

Paper title: "From_Tweets_to_Token_Sales__Assessing_ICO_Success_through_Social_Media_Sentiments"

Professor LIM Ee-Peng attends Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) as Steering Committee.

Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW attends Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) as an ExCo member of the Steering Committee.

Associate Professor Akshat KUMAR has paper accepted at International Conference on Autonomous Agent and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

Paper titles: "Difference of Convex Functions Programming for Policy Optimization in Reinforcement Learning" and "Factored MDP based Moving Target Defense with Dynamic Threat Modeling"

Assistant Professor WANG Yong presents paper at IEEE 17th Pacific Visualization Conference (PacificVis 2024), Tokyo, Japan

Paper title: "VIOLET: Visual Analytics for Explainable Quantum Neural Networks"

Lecturer LAU Yi Meng presents paper at Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET) , Lisbon

Paper title: "Teaching Software Development for Real-World Problems using a Microservice-Based Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach"

Associate Professor Debin GAO presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) , Lisbon, Portugal

Paper title: "MiniMon: Minimizing Android Applications with Intelligent Monitoring-Based Debloating"

Senior Lecturer FWA Hua Leong presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024, Virtual

Paper title: "Experience Report: Identifying common misconceptions and errors of novice programmers with ChatGPT"

Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

Paper title: "Exploring the Potential of ChatGPT in Automated Code Refinement: An Empirical Study"

Assistant Professor DUAN Yue presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

Paper title: "Marco: A Stochastic Asynchronous Concolic Explorer"

Professor SUN Jun attends ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

Paper title: "REDriver: Runtime Enforcement for Autonomous Vehicles"

Professor David LO attends ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

Paper title: "Curiosity-Driven Testing for Sequential Decision-Making Process"

Associate Professor Christopher Michael POSKITT presents paper at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024, Lisbon, Portugal

Paper title: "ACAV: A Framework for Automatic Causality Analysis in Autonomous Vehicle Accident Recordings"

Associate Professor Aldy GUNAWAN presents paper at Evostar 2024 , Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

Paper title: "Q-learning Based Framework for Solving the Stochastic E-waste Collection Problem"

Associate Professor Hady LAUW presents paper at 2024 EDBT/ICDT Joint Conference, Paestum, Italy

Paper title: "Community Similarity based on User Profile Joins"

Assistant Professor LI Yuchen presents paper at International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Paestum, Italy

Paper title: "Balancing Utility and Fairness in Submodular Maximization"

Associate Professor Hady LAUW attends ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining 2024 as Committee Chair as well as present paper., Merida, Mexico

Paper title: "WSDM 2023 Report and Financial Summary"

Associate Professor KAM Tin Seong attends Offshore Technology Conference Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Self-funded)

Paper title: "Improvement of Flow Coefficient Estimation with Limited Well Test Data for Real-time Condition Analytics of Choke Valve"

Assistant Professor DUAN Yue attends Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2023, San Diego, California

Paper title: "SigmaDiff: Semantics-Aware Deep Graph Matching for Pseudocode Diffing"

Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM presents paper at The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) , Vancouver, Canada

Paper title: "1. Handling Long and Richly Constrained Tasks through Constrained Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning.. 2. Reward Penalties on Augmented States for Solving Richly Constrained RL Effectively. 3. Unsupervised Training Sequence Design: Efficient and Generalizable Agent Training. 4. Imitate the Good and Avoid the Bad: An incremental approach to Safe Reinforcement Learning."

Assistant Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) , Vancouver, Canada

Paper title: "HGPROMPT: Bridging Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Graphs for Few-shot Prompt Learning"

Associate Professor Paul GRIFFIN presents paper at Quantum Computing in Finance Conference, Abu Dhabi

Paper title: "Quantum-Enhanced Modelling of Financial Time-Series Data for Rare Event Forecasting"

Professor LAU Hoong Chuin register for paper at Quantum Information Processing 2024, Taipei, Taiwan

Paper title: "Quantum Enhanced Simulation-Based Optimization for Newsvendor Problems"

Associate Professor HOE Siu Loon presents paper at IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) 2023, Singapore

Paper title: "ExploreLah: Personalised and Smart Trip Planner for Mobile Tourism"

Associate Professor CHENG Shih-Fen presents paper at IEEE International Conference on BigData (IEEE BigData) 2023, Sorrento, Italy

Paper title: "M2-CNN: A macro-micro model for taxi demand prediction"

Assistant Professor FANG Yuan presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023, New Orleans, USA

Paper title: "Estimating Propensity for Causality-based Recommendation without Exposure Data"

Associate Professor Akshat KUMAR presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023, New Orleans, USA

Paper title: "FlowPG: Action-constrained Policy Gradient with Normalizing Flows"

Assistant Professor CAO Zhiguang presents paper at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023, New Orleans, USA

Paper title: "Learning to Search Feasible and Infeasible Regions of Routing Problems with Flexible Neural k-Opt"

Associate Professor TANG Qian presents paper at AIS International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2023, Hyderabad, India

Paper title: "Is Pre-consultation Conducted by the Assistant Physician Effective in Improving Online Healthcare Service Quality and Satisfaction"

Associate Professor MA Dan presents paper at AIS International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2023, Hyderabad, India

Paper title: "An Economic Analysis of Third-Party Software Reliability Improvement using the Bug Bounty Program"

Assistant Professor GAO Wei attends Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023 , Singapore

Paper title: "WSDMS: Debunk Fake News via Weakly Supervised Detection of Misinforming Sentences with Contextualized Social Wisdom"

Assistant Professor CAO Yixin presents paper at Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023, Singapore

Paper title: "Robust Prompt Optimization for Large Language Models Against Distribution Shifts"

Professor JIANG Jing attends Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023 , Singapore

Paper title: "ROME: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Reasoning beyond Visual Common Sense"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi presents paper at Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023 , Singapore

Paper title: "End-to-end Task-oriented Dialogue: A Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Future Directions" and "Proactive Dialogue Systems in the Era of Large Language Models: Evaluating from a Prompting Perspective"

Professor LIM Ee-Peng attends Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023, Singapore

Paper title: "LLM-Adapters: An Adapter Family for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models"

Associate Professor GAO Debin attends Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2023, Austin, Texas, USA

Purpose is to survey products and solutions, which potentially have physical demonstrations at the conference venue. The IIE grant agrees that no requirement on publication acceptance at the conference is necessary.

Associate Professor Swapna GOTTIPATI presents paper at The 31st International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2023), Matsue, Shimane, Japan

Paper title: "Exploring Students' Adoption of ChatGPT as a Mentor for Undergraduate Computing Projects: PLS-SEM Analysis"

Professor Michelle CHEONG presents paper at 31st International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2023), Matsue, Shimane, Japan

Paper title: "ChatGPT’s Performance in Spreadsheets Modeling Assessments based on Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy"

Associate Professor Don TA presents paper at 31st International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2023), Matsue, Shimane, Japan

Paper title: "ExGen: Ready-To-Use Exercise Generation in Introductory Programming Courses"

Assistant Professor XIE Xiaofei presents paper at ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2023, San Francisco

Paper title: "DistXplore: Distribution-guided Testing for Evaluating and Enhancing Deep Learning Systems"

Professor David LO attend ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2023 as Committee Chair, San Francisco

Paper title: "On the Usage of Continual Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Pre-trained Language Models of Code"

Associate Professor WANG Zhaoxia presents paper at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2023, Shanghai, China

Paper title: "Knowledge Graph enhanced Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Incorporating External Knowledge"

Associate Professor Benjamin GAN presents paper at IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) 2023, Auckland, New Zealand

Paper title: "Class Participation, Using Technology to Enhance Efficiency and Fairness"

Associate Professor Manoj THULASIDAS presents paper at IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (IEEE TALE) 2023, Auckland, New Zealand

Paper title: "Peer Learning in an Undergraduate Linear Algebra Course - A Social Network Analysis"

Professor SUN Jun attend SETTA 2023: Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering Theories, Tools and Applications as Committee Chair, Nanjing, China

Associate Professor GAO Debin presents paper at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2023, Copenhagen

Paper title: "TypeSqueezer: When Static Recovery of Function Signatures for Binary Executables Meets Dynamic Analysis"

Associate Professor DING Xuhua presents paper at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Copenhagen, Denmark

Paper title: "KRover: A Symbolic Execution Engine for Dynamic Kernel Analysis"

Professor Robert DENG gives keynote speech at ICICS2023, Tianjin, China

Professor NGO Chong Wah presents paper at TRECVid Workshop 2023, Virtual

Paper title: "VIREO @ TRECVID 2023 Ad-hoc Video Search"

Professor Kyriakos MOURATIDIS gives keynote speech at 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop, Hamburg, Germany

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng presents paper at ACM Multimedia (MM) 2023, Virtual

Paper title: "NPF-200: A Multi-Modal Eye Fixation Dataset and Method for Non-Photorealistic Videos"

Assistant Professor CAO Yixin presents paper at The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2023), Bali, Indonesia

Paper title: "FollowupQG: Towards information-seeking follow-up question generation"

Assistant Professor LIAO Lizi presents papers at ACM Multimedia 2023, Ottawa, Canada

Paper titles: "Revisiting Disentanglement and Fusion on Modality and Context in Conversational Multimodal Emotion Recognition" and "Partial Annotation-based Video Moment Retrieval via Iterative Learning"

Associate Professor Tony TANG presents paper at ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) , San Francisco, California USA

Paper title: "Turn-It-Up: Rendering Resistance for Knobs in Virtual Reality through Undetectable Pseudo-Haptics"

Assistant Professor LEE Min Hun presents paper at ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) , New York, USA

Paper title: "Designing an Intelligent System to Monitor & Explain Abnormal Patterns of Older Adults"

Professor Robert DENG gives keynote speech at SecureComm 2023, Hong Kong

Associate Professor WANG Hai is Session Chair and presents papers at INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS) 2023, Phoenix, Arizona

Paper titles: "When a Platform Competes with Third-Party Sellers in Networked Markets: A Revenue Management Perspective", "Pooling and Assortment in Healthcare System with Telemedicine", "Understanding Multi-Homing and Switching by Platform Drivers", "Estimating Patient Health Transition from Data Censored by Treatment-Effect-Based Policies", "Assessing and Explaining the Efficiency of Urban Transportation Networks", "Rating and Service Quality Prediction in Online Labor Markets: Models and Implications"

Associate Professor TANG Qian presents paper at INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS) 2023, Phoenix, Arizona

Paper title: "The Effect of Online Follow-up Services on Offline and Online Physician Demand: Evidence from Chronic Disease Physicians"

Assistant Professor LEE Min Hun presents paper at ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing; Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW; PACM HCI) , Minneapolis, USA

Paper title: "Understanding the Effect of Counterfactual Explanations on Trust and Reliance on AI for Human-AI Collaborative Clinical Decision Making"

Associate Professor TANG Qian presents paper at Conference on Information Systems & Technology 2023, Phoenix, Arizona

Paper title: "The Effect of Online Follow-up Services on Offline and Online Physician Demand: Evidence from Chronic Disease Physicians"

Associate Professor Rajesh BALAN presents paper at ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2023, Cancún, Mexico

Paper title: "SleepMore: inferring sleep duration at scale via multi-device WiFi sensing"

Professor NGO Chong Wah attend IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2023 as Committee Member, KL, Malaysia

Assistant Professor MA Dong attends ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) as workshop co-chairs, Madrid, Spain

Associate Professor HE Shengfeng presents papers at International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023, Paris

Paper titles: "Diffuse3D: Wide-Angle 3D Photography via Bilateral Diffusion; CIRI: Curricular Inactivation for Residue-aware One-shot Video Inpainting; RIGID: Recurrent GAN Inversion and Editing of Real Face Videos; Deep Video Demoiréing via Compact Invertible Dyadic Decomposition"

Assistant Professor PANG Guansong presents at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2023, Paris

Paper title: "Residual Pattern Learning for Pixel-wise Out-of-Distribution Detection in Semantic Segmentation", "Prediction Diffusion Model for Video Anomaly Detection" and "Anomaly Detection under Distribution Shift"

Associate Professor DING Xuhua presents paper at ESORICS 2023, The Netherlands

Paper title: "DScope: To Reliably and Securely Acquire Live Data from Kernel-Compromised ARM Devices"

Assistant Professor Antoine LEDENT presents paper at 17th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), Singapore

Paper title: "Uncertainty-adjusted Inductive Matrix Completion with Graph Neural Networks"

Associate Professor ZHU Feida gives a talk at IBC 2023 conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Associate Professor SHAR Lwin Khin presents paper at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2023, Luxembourg

Paper title: "AutoConf: Automated Configuration of Unsupervised Learning Systems using Metamorphic Testing and Bayesian Optimization"

Professor David LO presents paper at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2023, Luxembourg

Paper title: "Are We Ready to Embrace Generative AI for Software Q&A?"

Professor David LO gives keynote talk at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data and Software Engineering (ICoDSE), Indonesia