
HKU IDS Seminar:
Perception Encoder Meets PerceptionLM: General Visual Understanding from Hidden Features to Open Data
Host:
Co-host:
Speaker
Dr Andrea Madotto
Research Scientist, Fundamental AI Research, Meta
Date
May 20, 2025 (Tue)
Time
11:00am – 12:00pm
Venue
IDS Seminar Room, P603, Graduate House | Zoom
Mode
Hybrid. Seats for on-site participants are limited. A confirmation email will be sent to participants who have successfully registered.
Abstract
Speaker

Dr Andrea Madotto
Research Scientist, Fundamental AI Research, Meta Dr Andrea Madotto is a Research Scientist in Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) at Meta working on Multimodal Language Models, and LLM driven agents (i.e., navigating UI based on user goals). He received his PhD in Electronic & Computer Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He received the outstanding paper award from ACL2019, and the best paper award from the NeurIPS2019 ConvAI workshop. His work has been featured in MIT technology review and VentureBeat. He serves as program committee and reviewer for various machine learning and natural language processing conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and AAAI, and journals such as the Journal of Natural Language Engineering and Computer Speech and Languages, and he co-presented the NeurIPS 2020 tutorial on Deeper Conversational AI. For full biography of Dr Madotto, please refer to: https://andreamad8.github.io/
Moderator

Prof Ping LUO
Associate Director (Innovation and Outreach), HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science Professor Ping Luo’s researches aim at 1) developing Differentiable/ Meta/ Reinforcement Learning algorithms that endow machines and devices to solve complex tasks with larger autonomy, 2) understanding foundations of deep learning algorithms, and 3) enabling applications in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. Professor Ping Luo received his PhD degree in 2014 in Information Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supervised by Prof. Xiaoou Tang (founder of SenseTime Group Ltd.) and Prof. Xiaogang Wang. For full biography of Professor LUO, please refer to: https://datascience.hku.hk/people/ping-luo/
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Email: datascience@hku.hk
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