LUIAS Distinguished Lectures
2026 - 2027
Understanding Political Trust in China
Professor Lianjiang LI
Professor of the Department of Politics and Public Administration
The University of Hong Kong
Senior Lingnan Scholar, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 10 September 2026
Time: 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Venue: LYH201/2, 2/F, Lau Lee Yuen Haan Amenities Building, Lingnan University
Mode: Face-to-face
Language: English
ILP: 1 Unit in Civic Education and Leadership Development for Lingnan Students
2025 - 2026
ESG Research in Accounting: Does ESG Reporting Harmonisation Matter?
Professor Jeong-Bon KIM
Distinguished SFU Professor
Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
Lingnan Fellow, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 29 May 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Venue: MBG01, Lin Yee Min Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
Mode: Hybrid (Face-to-face or Zoom)
ILP: 1 Unit in Intellectual and Entrepreneurship Development for Lingnan Students
Guidelines for Technical Writing and Presentations
Professor Ignacio E. GROSSMANN
Rudolph R. and Florence Dean University Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Lingnan Fellow, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 28 May 2026
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Venue: MBG19, Wu York Yu Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
Mode: Hybrid (Face-to-face or Zoom)
ILP: 1 Unit in Intellectual and Entrepreneurship Development for Lingnan Students
Workshop on Optimisation Models for Planning and Scheduling
Professor Ignacio E. GROSSMANN
Rudolph R. and Florence Dean University Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Lingnan Fellow, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 27 May 2026
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Venue: LYH201/2, 2/F, Lau Lee Yuen Haan Amenities Building
Mode: Hybrid (Face-to-face or Zoom)
ILP: 3 Units in Intellectual and Entrepreneurship Development for Lingnan Students
Theory and Applications of Tensor Decompositions
Professor Eugene TYRTYSHNIKOV
Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Professor and Chairman, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Lingnan Fellow, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 25 March 2026
Time: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Venue: MBG01, Lin Yee Min Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
ILP: 1 Unit in Intellectual and Entrepreneurship Development for Lingnan Students
Safe and Intelligent Decision-Making under Uncertainty: Predictive Control Meets Machine Learning
Professor Dr -Ing Rolf FINDEISEN
Head of Control and Cyber-physical Systems Laboratory
Technical University of Darmstadt
Date: 9 March 2026
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM
Venue: LYH201/2, 2/F, Lau Lee Yuen Haan Amenities Building
Advancing Chemical Process Control with Reinforcement Learning: From Foundations to LLM-Based Explainability
Professor Jong Min LEE
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Seoul National University
Date: 27 January 2026
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Venue: MBG01, Lin Yee Min Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
ILP: 1 Unit in Intellectual and Entrepreneurship Development for Lingnan Students
Toward Personalised and Sustainable Healthcare with Edge AI Medical Wearables
Professor David ATIENZA
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory
Associate Vice President of Research Centers and Platforms
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Date: 23 January 2026
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Venue: LYH201/2, 2/F, Lau Lee Yuen Haan Amenities Building
Nonlinear Expectation: A Robust Framework for Uncertainty in Finance and AI
Professor Shige PENG
Chair Professor
School of Mathematics, Shandong University
Date: 22 January 2026
Time: 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Venue: MBG06, Lam Woo Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
ILP: 1 Unit in Intellectual and Entrepreneurship Development for Lingnan Students
Theory of Transformers and In-context Learning
Professor Dingxuan ZHOU
Professor and Head, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Senior Lingnan Scholar, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 15 January 2026
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Venue: MBG01, Lin Yee Min Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
ILP: 1 Unit in Intellectual and Entrepreneurship Development for Lingnan Students
Carbon Capture in the Cement Industry - Synergies Between Different CCS Types
Professor Paul FENNELL
Professor of Clean Energy
Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London
Date: 17 November 2025
Time: 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Venue: MBG01, Lin Yee Min Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
Border Crossing: How Traditional Networks and Digital Ties Power the Journey of Undocumented Chinese Migrants to the United States
Professor Min ZHOU
Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Lingnan Fellow, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 9 September 2025
Time: 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Venue: MBG01, Lin Yee Min Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
2024 - 2025
Theory of Deep Neural Networks
Professor Dingxuan ZHOU
Professor and Head
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Senior Lingnan Scholar, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 11 April 2025
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Venue: MBG01, Lin Yee Min Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
Optimal Synthesis and Planning of Sustainable Chemical Process and Energy Systems
Professor Ignacio E. GROSSMANN
Center for Advanced Process Decision-making
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Lingnan Fellow, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 11 December 2024
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:10 PM
Venue: MBG01, Lin Yee Min Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
Controls in Power Systems with High Renewable Presentation
Professor Joe H. CHOW
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Date: 15 November 2024
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Venue: MBG07, Lee Ying Lam Lecture Theatre, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
Accounting Institutions, Creditor Rights Protection, and Stock Price Crash Risk
Professor Jeong-Bon KIM
Distinguished SFU Professor Beedie School of Business
Simon Fraser University
Lingnan Fellow, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 25 October 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Venue: MBG19, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
2023 - 2024
Big Data Opportunities: Systems Health Monitoring and Management
Professor Kwok Leung TSUI
Professor in Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Senior Lingnan Scholar, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 3 June 2024
Time: 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Venue: MBG01, G/F, Patrick Lee Wan Keung Academic Building
Research in Management Science and the Importance of Mathematics
Professor Alain BENSOUSSAN
Lars Magnus Ericsson Chair, Director of ICDRiA (International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis)
University of Texas at Dallas
Lingnan Fellow, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 20 May 2024
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Venue: LBY G02, G/F, B.Y. Lam Building, Lingnan University
What Chinatown Unfolds: Ethnic Enclaves, Immigrant Selectivity, and Segmented Assimilation
Professor Min ZHOU
Distinguished Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Lingnan Fellow, Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study
Date: 25 March 2024
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Venue: LBY G01, G/F, B.Y. Lam Building, Lingnan University
