Event Highlights

Way to Go – The “HKU AI Forum 2025”

Successfully Concluded with Inspiring Talks & Hybrid Participation!

Organizer

Collaborating partner

Organized by the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science, the HKU AI Forum 2025 has officially come to a close. The two-day international Forum, taken place between October 26–27, 2025 at the beautiful venue of the Faculty Board Room of the LKS Faculty of Medicine, brought together leading minds in artificial intelligence to explore the frontiers of generative models, multimodal AI, embodied intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning theory.

HKU IDS would like to extend our deepest gratitude to our distinguished speakers from UC San Diego, Tsinghua University, HKUST, NTU , Stanford, and more, for delivering thought-provoking talks and engaging in dynamic panel discussions that sparked meaningful dialogue and new perspectives.

Special recognition also goes to our talented PhD students whose lightning talks showcased the next generation of AI research right here at HKU! Your active participation and insightful questions made this hybrid event truly vibrant and impactful.

Please revisit the session recordings below for respective speakers:

Talk Recordings

Invited Talk 1:

Are we still Bayesians with big models?

Prof Zhuowen TU

Professor

Department of Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego

Invited Talk 2:

Embodied Diffusion Models for General Manipulation

Prof Jun ZHU
Professor

Computer Science Department
Tsinghua University

Invited Talk:

A Camera-Centric Framework for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Prof Chen Change Loy
President’s Chair Professor

College of Computing and Data Science
Nanyang Technological University

Invited Talk:

Understanding Visual Intelligence Through Physical Intrinsics

Prof Jiajun Wu
Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science
Stanford University

Invited Talk 5:

The Multimodal Future: Building Supersensing for Superintelligence

Prof Saining Xie
Assistant Professor

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

Invited Talk 6:

BAGEL: The Open-Source Unified Multimodal Model

Dr Haoqi FAN
AI Researcher

ByteDance

Invited Talk 7:

Spatial Intelligence: 3D perception, simulation, and motion

Prof Ping TAN
Professor

Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Invited Talk:

Sensing, Aligning, Planning: Steps Toward Embodied Intelligence

Prof Harold SOH
Associate Professor

School of Computing
National University of Singapore

Invited Talk:

Understanding Generalization in Generative AI via Low-Dimensional Models: From Diffusion to LLMs

Prof Qing QU
Assistant Professor

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan

Invited Talk:

Fast and Efficient AI

Prof Yang YOU
Presidential Young Professor

Department of Computer Science
National University of Singapore

Invited Talk 11:

ASearcher: Large-Scale End-to-End RL Training for Search Agents

Prof Yi WU
Assistant Professor

Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS)
Tsinghua University

Highlights