Thesis Defense
PHD in Civil Engineering - Mechanisms of Volume-Dependent Debris Flow Impact on Multiple Barriers Using an Efficient Two-Phase MPM
Organized by Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room 3574 (Lifts 27-28), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
15 October 2025
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Modeling Protein Interactions and Structures with Deep Learning: Techniques and Applications
E1-319, HKUST(GZ) / Zoom ID: 982 1425 0966 Passcode: dsa2025, HKUST
15 October 2025
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Trustworthiness in Vertical Federated Learning: Privacy attacks, Robustness Vulnerabilities, and Secure Protocols
E4 - 201, HKUSTGZ Campus; Zoom Meeting ID: 959 6542 9776 Passcode: iott, HKUST
14 October 2025
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Breaking Barriers, Building Connections: Digital Participation and Communication of Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing People
E4, 2F, Room 201, HKUST
13 October 2025
PHD in Electronic & Comp Engg - In Vivo near Non‑Invasive Imaging of the Brain and Retina in Physiological and Pathological states
Room 2408 (Lifts 17-18), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
10 October 2025
MPhil in Life Science - AAV-mediated Gene Therapy Halts Retinal Degeneration in Mouse Model of Retinal Detachment by Targeting Serpina3n
Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
10 October 2025
PHD in Computer Science & Engg - Towards Efficient and Scalable Retrieval in Metric Spaces
Room 2408 (Lifts 17-18), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
10 October 2025
PHD in Computer Science & Engg - Towards Industrial-Scale Software Binary Analysis
Room 5501 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
9 October 2025
MPhil in Computer Science & Engg - Evaluation-Driven Intelligence: From Visual Captioning Metrics to Agentic Workflow Optimization
Room 5501 (Lifts25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
8 October 2025
MPhil in Computer Science & Engg - Enabling Explainable AI with Transformer Models: Opportunities and Limitations in Visual and Textual Concept Generation
Room 5501 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
8 October 2025
MPhil in Mechanical Engineering - Theoretical Modeling, Dimensional Analysis for Design and Fabrication of Hexagonal Microfiltration Array Chips for Isolation and Detection of CTCs & CTC Clusters
Room 2548 + Room 2549 (Lifts 27-28), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
2 October 2025
PHD in Marine Environmental Sci - Unraveling Virus-Microbe Interactions in the South China Sea: An Integrated Approach from Cultivation to Community-Wide Multi-Omics
Room 4472 (Lifts 25/26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
30 September 2025
PHD in Chemistry - Interface Engineering of Polymeric Transport Layers and Antisolvent Processing for High-Performance Scalable Perovskite and Nanocrystal Solar Cells
Room 3598 (Lifts 27-28), 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
30 September 2025
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Data Management for Scalable Deep Learning Pipelines over Data Streams
E3-612, HKUST(GZ) / Zoom ID: 996 8844 8171, Passcode: dsa2025, HKUST
29 September 2025
PHD in Computer Science & Engg - Application-Aware Communication Optimization for Distributed Systems
Room 2408 (Lifts 17-18), 2/F Academic Building, HKUST
25 September 2025
PHD in Marine Environmental Sci - Polyphosphate Across Aquatic Gradients: Method Development and Ecosystem Studies in the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Subtropical South China Sea
Room 4472 (Lifts 25-26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
23 September 2025
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Diffusion policies for offline reinforcement learning
E1-319, HKUST(GZ) / Zoom ID: 944 2560 0589, Passcode: dsa2025, HKUST
22 September 2025
MPhil in Social Science - Trump Effect on Obamacare: How Presidential Regime Changes Polarized Policy Compliance
Room 3401 (Lift 2, 17-18) , 3/F Academic Building, HKUST
19 September 2025
PHD in Computer Science & Engg - Learning in Flux: Continual and Efficient Representation Learning on Dynamic Graphs
Room 5501 (Lifts 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
19 September 2025
PHD in Individual Interdisci Prog - Spatio-temporal Analysis of Maritime Movement: A Multi-Perspective Study on Vessel Trajectories
E1-202, HKUST(GZ) / Zoom ID: 986 1250 7113, Passcode: dsa2025, HKUST
19 September 2025



