Programme

Programme

Day 1
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome speech

Jiming Liu, Associate Vice President (Research), Hong Kong Baptist University

09:15 – 10:45
Lecture - Overview of artificial intelligence in biomedical

Chair: P C Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist University

Speaker: Lei Xing, Stanford University

10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45
Lecture - Open problems and future directions on artificial intelligence for biomedical applications

Chair: P C Yuen, Hong Kong Baptist University

Speaker: Lei Xing, Stanford University

12:45 – 14:15
Lunch
14:15 – 15:45
Lecture - Overview of generative AI and foundation models

Chair: Shenghua Gao, University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Cavan Loy, Nanyang Technological University

15:45 – 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 – 17:45
Lecture - Applications of generative AI and foundation models

Chair: Shenghua Gao, University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Cavan Loy, Nanyang Technological University

17:45 – 18:45
Participants' poster session and informal discussion with speakers

Chair: Xiaoqing Guo, Hong Kong Baptist University

19:00 – 21:00
Dinner (speakers, organising committee and by invitation only)
Day 2
09:00 – 10:30
Lecture - Universal and foundational models of medical imaging AI: traits and trends

Chair: Xiaoqing Guo, Hong Kong Baptist University

Speaker: Kevin Zhou, University of Science and Technology of China

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Lecture - Neural medical image recovery and synthesis

Chair: Xiaoqing Guo, Hong Kong Baptist University

Speaker: Kevin Zhou, University of Science and Technology of China

12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Lecture - Unmet needs in biomedical research: insights from fundamental science to patient care

Chair: Grace Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Yasuko Iwakiri, Yale University 

15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30
Lecture - AI in biomedical research: opportunities and real-world applications

Chair: Grace Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Yasuko Iwakiri, Yale University

17:30 – 18:30
Participants' poster session and informal discussion with speakers

Chair: Rashid Lui, Hospital Authority of Hong Kong

19:00 – 21:00
Dinner (speakers, organising committee and by invitation only)
Day 3
09:00 – 10:30
Lecture - The transformative power of AI agents in computational biology

Chair: Eric Zhang, Hong Kong Baptist University

Speaker: James Zou, Stanford University

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Lecture - Molecular biomedical imaging in the era of spatial omics

Chair: Eric Zhang, Hong Kong Baptist University

Speaker: James Zou, Stanford University

12:30 – 14:25
Lunch
14:25 – 15:55
Lecture - Fundamentals of computational pathology

Chair: Hao Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Speaker: Nasir M. Rajpoot, University of Warwick

15:55 – 16:10
Coffee break
16:10 – 17:40
Lecture - Future research directions for AI for computational pathology

Chair: Hao Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Speaker: Nasir M. Rajpoot, University of Warwick

17:40 – 17:55
Closing remarks

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