The entire symposium will be held in Hong Kong Time (GMT+8).
Day 1 (May 19, 2025)
08:45-09:00
Registration
09:00-09:15
Opening Remarks
Prof. Tim CHENG
Center Director, AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems (ACCESS)
Vice President (Research and Development), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
09:15-10:15
Public Lecture #1: Topic:Convex Optimization Session Chair: Prof. Tim CHENG (HKUST) Lecturer: Prof. Stephen P. BOYD (Stanford University)
Prof. David ATIENZA ALONSO (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)) Topic: Maxwell: a Near-SRAM Co-Design Computing Architecture for Edge AI Applications
Prof. Xiaoming CHEN (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)) Topic: LLM Acceleration based on Processing-in-memory Architectures
Prof. Yun LIANG (Peking University (PKU)) Topic: AHS: Agile Hardware Specialization
12:10-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:30
Public Lecture #2: Topic: Domain-Specific Acceleration Targeting AI for Science and AI for Medicine Session Chair: Prof. Evangeline YOUNG (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)) Lecturer: Prof. Wayne LUK (Imperial College London)
Dr. Yan ZHENG (Riverhead Capital Investment Management Co., Ltd) Topic: TBC
Dr. Feijun ZHENG (Zhejiang University (ZJU)) Topic: Introduction and case study on ZJU-IC Industry & Academic Collaboration
Dr. Shaoshan LIU (Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS)) Topic: Building Computing Systems for Embodied Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Abbas RAHIMI (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory) Topic: Toward Reliable and Cost-effective Compound AI Systems
Prof. Chixiao CHEN (Fudan University (FDU)) Topic: Scalable Compute-in/near-Memory Systems with 2.5D/3D/3.5D Integration
Prof. Tony Tae-Hyoung KIM (Nanyang Technological University (NTU)) Topic: Transforming AI: The Impact of Computing-in-Memory on Future Technologies
10:45-10:55
Break
10:55-11:55
Public Lecture #3: Topic: Towards Efficient AI Systems and Circuits: Progress and Perspective Session Chair: Prof. Wei ZHANG (HKUST) Lecturer: Prof. Yu WANG (Tsinghua University (THU))