PAAI Inauguration Ceremony

I.PAAI Inauguration cum AI for Health (AI4H) Forum

Time: 9:30 am – 12:00 noon

Venue: Chiang Chen Studio Theatre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

Language: English

The Opening Addresses will be delivered by Prof. Jin-Guang TENG, President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Speaker 1: Prof. Qiang YANG, Director of PAAI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

Topic: PAAI Vision Talk on The AI Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker 2: Prof. Hongxia YANG, Executive Director of PAAI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Topic: PAAI Keynote Speech on Co-Generative AI

The AI4H Forum: AI Reshapes the Future of Healthcare

• Moderator: Prof. Hongxia YANG, Executive Director of PAAI
• Speakers include:
  • Academic Representatives from PolyU: 
    • Prof. Qiang YANG, Director of PAAI; Prof. Jing CAI, Head of Department of Health Technology and Informatics(HTI)
  • Clinical Representatives: 
    • Prof. Jin-ming YU, President of Shangdong Cancer Hospital, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering; Prof. Ning GU, Professor in Medical School of Nanjing University, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Prof. Wenhong ZHANG, Director, National Medical Centre for Infectious Diseases (Shanghai)

II. International Forum on AI 2025(Co-organised by PolyU Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (FCMS) and PAAI)

Time: 2:00 pm – 5:15 pm

Venue: Chiang Chen Studio Theatre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

Language: English

Moderator: Prof. Qiang YANG, Director of PAAI

Speaker 1: Prof. Toby WALSH, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, AAAI Fellow, University of New South Wales

Topic: AI and Creativity: The Final Frontier?

Speaker 2: Dr Zhengyou ZHANG, Chief Scientist of Tencent, Director of Tencent Robotics X and ACM/IEEE Fellow

Topic: Embodied AI: Technology Trends and Research Progresses

Speaker 3: Prof. Randy GOEBEL, Fellow and co-founder of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), University of Alberta

Topic: Challenges for the Query/Update/Explanation Paradigm of Neuromyotonic Foundation Models

Speaker 4: Prof. Jie TANG, Department of Computer Science and Technology and Director of Foundation Model Research Center, Tsinghua University

Topic: The GLM's Road to AGI

III. PolyU Intelligent Oncology Forum (Co-organised by PolyU Department of Health Technology and Informatics (HTI) and PAAI)

Time: 2:00 pm – 6:10 pm

Venue: Senate Room (M1603), 16/F, Li Ka Shing Tower, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

Language: English and Putonghua

Moderator: Prof. Jing CAI, Head of HTI

Speaker 1: Prof. Jin-ming YU, President of Shangdong Cancer Hospital, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering

Topic: New Practices in Intelligent Oncology (and Introduction of Shandong Cancer Hospital)

Speaker 2: Prof. Ning GU, Professor in Medical School of Nanjing University, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Topic: Vascular Information and Health Engineering

Speaker 3: Prof. Wenhong ZHANG, Director, National Medical Centre for Infectious Diseases (Shanghai)

Topic: Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Prevention: Current Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Speaker 4: Prof. Tony MOK, Associate Dean (Translation and Entrepreneurship), Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Topic: Screening early-stage lung cancer in never-smoker with AI support

Speaker 5: Prof. Ying SUN, Vice President, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center

Topic: AI and Big Data: Innovating New Technologies for Precision Oncology

Speaker 6: Prof. Victor LEE, Chairperson of the Department of Clinical Oncology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

Topic: Recent advances and challenges of liquid-based molecular diagnostics in cancer management

Speaker 7: Prof. Xiance JIN, Vice President of First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University

Topic: AI for Radiation Oncology

Speaker 8: Prof. Hongxia YANG, Executive Director of PAAI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Topic: Distributed Generative AI and Its Applications in Healthcare