Invited Talks:

• Big Data Challenges for Predictive Modeling of Complex Systems, The University of Hong Kong, November 27, 2018.
• The HKUST Institute for Advanced Study Focused Program on Scientific Computing, Hong Kong, December 7, 2017.
• The 5th Young Scholar Forum on Interdisciplinary Research of Mathematics, Computer Science and Life Science, Beijing, May 20, 2017.
• Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, April 17, 2017.
• The 2nd International Symposium on Data Driven Health and Medicine, Shanghai, July 2, 2016
• Department of Statistical Science, University College London, July 3, 2015.
• The 3rd International Symposium on Statistical Genetics (ISSG), Seoul, Korea, May 27, 2015.
• IMA-HK-IAS Workshop on Statistics and Computational Interface to Big Data, HKUST, Hong Kong, January 9, 2015.
• The 3rd Institute of Mathematical Statistics Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, Taipei, July 3, 2014.
• The Ninth International Conference: Challenges of Statistical Methods for Interdisciplinary Research and Big Data, Hong Kong, 23 December, 2013.
• Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, June 14, 2013.
• Bioinformatics Division, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Beijing, June 12, 2013.
• SPIE 2013 Conference on Defense, Security and Sensing, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 3, 2013
• National Cancer Institute, NIH, Washing DC, April 23, 2013.
• Philips Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany, April 18, 2013.
• 2013 Conference on Computational and Systems Biology, Sanya, China, January 7, 2013.
• ST Microelectornics, Shenzhen, December 18, 2012.
• Gerald Sommer Workshop on Computer Vision and Perception, Prague, June 28, 2012.
• Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Maryland, June 26, 2012.
• Joint Biomedical Engineering Workshop of HKUST and The University of Tokyo, Hong Kong, January 6, 2012.
• The first Joint Scientific Symposium of Shanghai Jiaotong University and Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, November 30, 2011.
• IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability 2011, XiAn, China, July 10, 2011.
• Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, April 6, 2011
• The First China Workshop on Computational Proteomics (CNCP2010), Beijing, November 11, 2010.
• Research Institute of Image and Graphics, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, November 9, 2010.
• Ultrasound and Elasticity Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, July 21, 2010.
• Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Maryland, July 19, 2010.
• Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, July 8, 2010.
• GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, April 7, 2010.
• Center for Statistical Genomics and Proteomics, Yale University, April 5, 2010.
• Image Processing and Analysis Group, Yale University, March 31, 2010.
• Seoul National University-HKUST Joint Workshop, Seoul, Korea, May 28, 2009
• The 1^st International symposium on Nano-Biotechnology, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, May 26, 2009.
• Croucher Advanced Study Institute Symposium on Bioinformatics and Data Mining, Hong Kong Baptist University, February 26, 2009.
• Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, June 19, 2008.
• Croucher Advanced Study Institute, Mathematical & Algorithmic Challenges for Modelling & Analyzing Modern Data Sets, Hong Kong Baptist University, April 25, 2008.
• PepCon2008: From Concept to Market, Shenzhen, China, April 23, 2008.
• Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China, March 21, 2008.
• Bioengineering Program, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, October 31, 2007.
• Center for Cancer Research, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, September 19, 2007.
• Department of Intelligent Bioinformatics Systems, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2007.
• Gavin Group, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2007.
• Center for NanoTechnology, University Muenster, Germany, July 2007.
• Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, May 2007.
• Center for Bioinformatics, Beijing University, August 2006.
• Computer Science and Engineering Department, Michigan State University, April 2006.
• Biomedical Engineering Department, McGill University, Canada, March 2006.
• Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, McGill University, Canada, March 2006.
• Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, March 2006.
• Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Alberta, Canada, March 2006.

• Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, February 2006.
• School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, January 2006.
• Electronic and Computer Engineering Department, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, January 2006.
• School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, November 2005
• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program Seminar, Yale University, December 2004
• Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA, March 2004.
• GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, July 2002.
• Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, December 2001.
• Medical Image Computing Group, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, December 2001.
• Cognitive System Group, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, April 2001.
• Image Understanding and Knowledge-based Systems Group, Technical University Munich, Germany, November 2000.
• Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, November 2000.
• Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Digital Image Processing, jointly hosted by University of Heidelberg and University of Mannheim, Heidelberg, Germany, November 2000.
• Knowledge Processing Group, Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge Based Systems, Erlangen, Germany, July 1999.
• Pattern Recognition Group, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, December 1998.
• Image Processing Group, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, December 1997.