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Talks and Presentations

Following is a list of my selected talks and presentations related to my research interests. Some of the slides are provided. For those which have not been provided, I may still on the way of refining them or the main ideas have been mentioned in later talks.

Selected Public Presentations

Invited Lecture: "Cognitive Brain Modeling". Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2019, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan, June 24 to July 11, 2019.

Invited Talk: "Creating Brain-inspired Conscious Living Beings: Progress and Future", Humanity+ Symposium: Human Meaning in an AI World, July 15th, Beijing, China, 2018.

Invited Talk: "Brain-inspired Conscious Living Beings", The Technological Revolution: Humanistic Crisis, or the Transformation of Civilization. Beijing, China, April 22, 2018.

Invited Talk: "Creating Brain-inspired Cognitive Machine", AI, Robotics and Society Workshop, Berggruen Institute, Beijing, China, March 17th, 2018.

Invited Talk: "Brain-inspired Conscious Machine". Dialogue among Scientists and Philosophers, Berggruen Institute, Beijing, China, Feburary 7th, 2018.

Invited Talk: "Brain-inspired Intelligence: From Brain-inspired Learning to Brain-inspired Conscious Machine". The 3rd Conference on "Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence", November 4-5th, Leeds, UK, 2017.

Invited Talk: "Brain-inspired Intelligence: From Brain and Mind Modeling to Artificial General Intelligence". International Forum on Brain Science and Brain-inspired Research, Qingdao, China, August 11-13th, 2017.

Invited Talk: "Brain-inspired Intelligence: Retrospect and Outlook". International Workshop on Human and Machine Learning, Beijing, China, August 16-18th, 2017.

Invited Talk: "Brain-inspired Intelligence: Historical Review, Recent Progress and Outlooks". The 3rd Form on Brain and Brain-inspired Computing, Beijing, China, June 28th, 2017.

Invited Talk: "Brain-inspired Intelligence: Grand Challenges and Progresses". Science Forum on Artificial Intelligence, German Embassy in China, Beijing, China, April 24th, 2017.

Invited Talk: "Brain-inspired Intelligence: Historical Review, Recent Progress and Outlooks". The 13th Workshop on Mind and Machine, Guangzhou, China, October 29-30th, 2016.

Invited Talk: "Brain-inspired Intelligence and Its Applications in Intelligent Robotics". The 4th International Workshop on Advances in Neuroinformatics, Wako, Japan, May 28-29th, 2016.

Invited Talk: "Linked Brain Data: a Web-scale Knowledge Platform for Brain and Neuroscience". The 4th International Workshop on Advances in Neuroinformatics, Wako, Japan, May 28-29th, 2016.

Invited Talk: "Retrospect and Outlook of Brain-inspired Intelligence". Leading Edge Forum on Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, January 13th, 2016.

Invited Talk: "Cognitive Brain Computational Modeling". International Brain-inspired Computing Forum, Beijing, China, October 15th, 2015.

Invited Talk: "Multi-scale Brain Simulation and Applications". Computing powered Brain Science Workshop, Beijing, China, December 11th, 2014.

Invited Talk: "Brain Systems Engineering". The 14th International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex System, Beijing, China, November 8th, 2014.

Linked Neuron Data (LND): A Platform for Integrating and Semantically Linking Neuroscience Data and Knowledge. The 7th Neuroinformatics Congress (Neuroinformatics 2014) in Leiden, the Netherlands, August 25-27, 2014.

Neuronal Morphology Simulation based on Microscopy Reconstruction Data in the Public Repositories. The 2014 International Conference on Brain Informatics and Health (BIH 2014) in Warsaw, Poland, August 11-14, 2014.

Active Recommendation of Tourist Attractions based on Visitors Interests and Semantic Relatedness. The 2014 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2014), in Warsaw, Poland, August 11-14, 2014.

Neural Pathway Prediction based on Multi-neuron Spike Train Data. The Twenty-Third Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS 2014) in Québec City, Canada, July 26-31, 2014.

CASIA-KB: A Multi-source Chinese Semantic Knowledge Base Built from Structured and Unstructured Web Data. The 3rd Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2013), Seoul, Korea, November 28-30, 2013.

Entity Conceptualization and Understanding based on Web-scale Knowledge Bases. The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2013), Manchester, the United Kingdom, October 13-16, 2013.

Tutorial: "Extracting, Linking and Analyzing the Web of Structured Chinese Data" at the 2nd Hot Topics in Database Conference (HotDB 2012), November 19th 2012. [Slides]

Ranking and Combining Social Network Data for Web Personalization. The International Workshop on Data-driven User Behavioral Modelling and Mining from Social Media, co-located with the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Hawaii, USA, October 29th, 2012. [Slides]

Research Interests : Their Dynamics, Structures and Applications in Personalized Web Search, Microsoft Research Asia NLC Group, Dec 29, 2010. [slides]

Research Interests : Their Dynamics, Structures and Applications in Web Search Refinement. The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Toronto, Canada, September 2, 2010.

User Interests: Definition, Vocabulary, and Utilization in Unifying Search and Reasoning. The 2010 International Conference on Active Media Technology, Toronto, August 28, 2010.

Social Relation Based Search Refinement: Let Your Friends Help You!. The 2010 International Conference on Active Media Technology, Toronto, August 28, 2010.

Normalized Medline Distance and Its Utilization in Context-aware Life Science Literature Search. The 4th Chinese Semantic Web Symposium, August 20, 2010.

Cognitive Memory Inspired Search Refinement on Life Science Literatures. The 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS2010), Beijing, China, August 17, 2010.

Social Relation Based Scalable Semantic Search Refinement. the 2009 Asian Scalable Semantic Data Processing Workshop, co-located with the 2009 Asian Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China, December 7, 2009. [Slides]

LarKC: The Large Knowledge Collider. the 2009 Asian Scalable Semantic Data Processing Workshop, co-located with the 2009 Asian Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China, December 7, 2009. [Slides]

Unifying Web-scale Search and Reasoning from the Viewpoint of Granularity. the 2009 International Conference on Active Media Technology, Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2009. [Slides]

The Quest for Parallel Semantic Web Reasoning. the 2009 International Conference on Active Media Technology, Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2009.

Cross Work Package Report: Recent Progress and Problems for Unifying Search and Reasoning. LarKC General Assembly, Max-Plank Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, September, 2009.

Unifying Web-scale Search and Reasoning from the Viewpoint of Granularity. LarKC PhD Student Symposium 2009, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, September, 2009.

DBLP-SSE: A DBLP Search Support Engine. the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Milan, Italy, September 15-18, 2009. [Slides]

A Preliminary Note on Granular Reasoning, Web & AI Weekly Seminar, Vrij University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 15th, 2009.

WP2 Working Report: Cognitive Memory Retention Based Granular Selection. LarKC General Assembly, Milan, Italy, May 18-21, 2009.

WP4 Working Report: Evaluation of Granular Reasoning. LarKC General Assembly, Milan, Italy, May 18-21, 2009.

Accelerating LarKC by Reasoning through Granular Knowledge Structures. LarKC General Assembly, Bled, Slovenia, January 12-14, 2009. [slides]

Accelerating Knowledge Selection by Cognitive Memory and Interactive Knowledge Structures. On: LarKC General Assembly, Bled, Slovenia, January 12-14, 2009. [slides]

On Granular knowledge Structures. On: The 2008 International Conference on Advanced Intelligence, Beijing, China, October 18-22, 2008.

Granular Knowledge Structures: Theoretical Foundations and Examples. On: The 2007 Annual International WIC Institute Student Workshop, December 29, 2007.[Best Presentation Award]

Granular Structure-Based Knowledge Retrieval. On: Joint Conference of The Seventh National Conference of Rough Set and Soft Computing, the First National Conference of Granular Computing, the First National Conference of Web Intelligence, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, August 19-23, 2007. [Excellent Student Paper Award]

Supporting Literature Exploration with Granular Knowledge Structures. On: Joint Rough Set Symposium' 07, MarRS center, Toronto, Canada, May 16th, 2007.

Cognitive Process based Research Support Systems. On: The 2006 Annual International WIC Institute Student Workshop, Dec 14th, 2006. [Best Presentation Award]