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Program Rundown - Workshop

Day 1 (May 16)
8:45am – 9:15am
Opening ceremony
9:15am – 10:30am
Analysis-of-Marginal-Tail-Means (ATM): A Robust Method for Discrete Black-Box Optimization
Prof Jeff Wu (Georgia Tech)
10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am – 11:25am
Multi-fidelity Gaussian process modeling with boundary information
Dr Matthias Tan (CityU)
11:25am – 11:50am
Paired or partially paired two-sample tests with unordered samples
Dr Zhisheng Ye (NUS)
11:50am – 12:15pm
Data-driven Escalator Health Analytics
Dr Inez M Zwetsloot (CityU)
12:15pm – 1:45pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Order-of-addition Experiments: Design and Analysis
Prof Dennis Lin (Purdue)
3:15pm – 3:45pm
Coffee Break
3:45pm – 4:10pm
Vision Intelligence Generated Time Series Forecasting
Dr Zijun Zhang (CityU)
4:10pm – 4:35pm
JSNMF enables effective and accurate integrative analysis of single-cell multiomics data
Dr Zhixiang Lin (CUHK)
4:35pm – 5:00pm
Data Driven Approaches for Intelligent Elderly Care
Dr Yang Zhao (SYSU)
Day 2 (May 17)
9:00am – 10:15am
Co-Evolution of Sensing Technology and Data Science - the Tale of Two Driving Froces Behind Modeling and Analysis of Multistage Manufacturing Processes
Prof Jianjun Shi (Georgia Tech)
10:15am – 10:45am
Coffee Break
10:45am – 11:10am
Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines makes a life-saving difference to all countries
Dr Qingpeng Zhang (CityU)
11:10am – 11:35am
Anomaly Detection and Classification of Fabricated Artifacts by Using Unstructured 3D Point Cloud Data
Dr Juan Du (HKUST)
11:35am – 12:00nn
Data Analytics Can Enhance Intelligence of Engineering Systems
Dr Xiaowei Yue (VT)
12:00nn – 1:45pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:15pm
The Evolution of Statistical Process Monitoring
Prof William Woodall (Virginia Tech)
3:15pm – 3:45pm
Coffee Break
3:45pm – 4:10pm
Significance Tests for Feature Relevance of A Black-box Learner
Dr Ben Dai (CUHK)
4:10pm – 4:35pm
A Scalable Gaussian Process for Large-Scale Periodic Data
Dr Yongxiang Li (SJTU)
4:35pm – 5:00pm
Robust Markov Decision Processes and Online Reinforcement Learning for Engineering Asset Management
Dr Bin Liu (Strathclyde)

Day 3 (May 18)
9:00am – 10:15am
Latent Variable Gaussian Process (LVGP) Modeling for Adaptive and Interpretable Machine Learning and Mixed-Variable Design
Prof Wei Chen (Northwestern)
10:15am – 10:45am
Coffee Break
10:45am – 11:10am
Data science for intelligent design and operations of air transport systems
Dr Lishuai Li (CityU)
11:10am – 11:35am
Difference mode decomposition for adaptive signal decomposition
Dr Dong Wang (SJTU)
11:35am – 12:00nn
Using deep learning to illuminate viral dark matter: algorithms for virus identification and analysis
Dr Yanni Sun (CityU)
12:00nn – 1:45pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Reliability Modeling and Optimization for Systems with Clusters of Dependent Degrading Components
Prof David Coit (Rutgers)
3:15pm – 3:45pm
Coffee Break
3:45pm – 4:10pm
Data Analytical Approach Towards Complex Diseases Determinants Identification and Prediction
Dr Katie Chan (CityU)
4:10pm – 4:35pm
Statistical Monitoring of Incomplete Data from Life Testing
Dr Chenglong Li (NPU)
4:35pm – 5:00pm
Data-driven Smart Prefabrication Construction in Hong Kong
Dr Ray Zhong (HKU)
Day 4 (May 19)
9:00am – 10:15am
Reliability Modeling, Prediction, Testing and Challenges in New Frontiers
Prof Elsayed A. Elsayed (Rutgers)
10:15am – 10:45am
Coffee Break
10:45am – 11:10am
A Bayesian Robust Regression Method for Corrupted Data Reconstruction
Prof Qingpei Hu (CAS)
11:10am – 11:35am
Optimal Maintenance Policy for a Fleet of Self-service Systems Subject to Dynamic Failure-induced Demand Switch
Dr Yao Cheng (HKU)
11:35am – 12:00nn
Log-linear Stochastic Block Modeling and Monitoring of Directed Sparse Weighted Network Systems
Dr Junjie Wang (ZUE)
12:00nn – 1:45pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 2:25pm
Causality-Informed Neural Network (CINN)
Dr Xiaoge Zhang (PolyU)
2:25pm – 2:50pm
Estimating and Exploiting the Impact of Photo Layout: A Structural Approach
Dr Hanwei Li (CityU)
2:50pm – 3:15pm
Prognostics and Health Management of Rechargeable Battery Systems
Dr Fangfang Yang (SYSU)
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Dinner