Talk on "Efficient Finetuning via Model Reprogramming", The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Dec 16, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Using Pre-trained Vision-Language Models", Ant Group NeurIPS’24 Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, Dec 10, 2024 (Invited Keynote Talk).

Talk on "Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Using Pre-trained Vision-Language Models", University of Queensland Data Science Seminar, Brisbane, Dec 2, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Using Pre-trained Vision-Language Models", TikTok Sydney, Sydney, Nov 18, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Using Pre-trained Vision-Language Models", National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan, Nov 12, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Using Pre-trained Vision-Language Models", Amazon Melbourne Office, Melbourne, Sep 19, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", UTS Cyber Group, Online, Aug 15, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Adversarial Defense from A Statistical View", BrainLink X-Lab Day, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Jul. 9, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", East China Normal University Seminar on AI for Science, Online, May 26, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE, May 16, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Google Research Australia, Online, May 3, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in OOD Detection Theory and Algorithms", Australian Institute for Machine Learning, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Apr 29, 2024 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty of Science, Hong Kong SAR, Nov. 17, 2023 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", The University of Sydney, Sydney, Nov. 6, 2023 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", CS-Cyber Seminar, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Sep. 6, 2023 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Monash Software Systems and Cybersecurity Seminars, Monash University, Melbourne, Aug. 15, 2023 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Adelaide, Jul. 10, 2023 (Invited Keynote Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Online, May 30, 2023 (Invited Guest Lecture).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Central South University, Online, Mar. 16, 2023 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Feb. 13, 2023 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Online, Dec. 7, 2022 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Oct. 11, 2022 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Xi'an Jiaotong University, online, Sep. 15, 2022 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances in Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Workshop on Weakly Supervised Data Mining and Learning, Chinese Conference on Data Mining, online, Jul. 29, 2022 (Invited Talk).

Talk on "Deep Kernel Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Cooperative Medianet Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, online, Jul. 13, 2022 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Towards Trustworthy Transfer Learning: Learning from the Wild", University of Western Ontario, online, Mar. 9, 2022 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Deep Kernel Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", Guangzhou University, online, Jan. 15, 2022 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Deep Kernel Two-sample Testing and Its Applications", School of Mathematics and Statistic, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 10, 2022 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances and Applications of Two-Sample Testing", NeurIPS Meetup Japan 2021, online, Dec. 14, 2021 (Invited Keynote Talk).

Talk on "Meta Two-sample Testing", NeurIPS Meetup Sydney 2021, online, Dec. 4, 2021 (Invited Talk).

Talk on "Recent Advances and Applications of Two-Sample Testing", ITEE Seminar, The University of Queensland, online, Oct. 13, 2021 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Towards Trustworthy Transfer Learning: Learning from the Wild", RIKEN-AIP, online, March 9, 2021 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Towards Realistic Machine Learning Algorithms", Guangzhou University, online, September 25, 2020 (Invited Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Learning Deep Kernels for Nonparametric Two Sample Test", Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK, October 21, 2019 (Seminar Talk).

Talk on "Butterfly: A Panacea for All Difficulties in Wildly Unsupervised Domain Adaptation", RIKEN-AIP, Tokyo, Japan, June 26, 2019 (Seminar Talk).

FEIT CIS Excellence Award in Research (2024)

ACS Australasian AI Emerging Research Award (2024)

Outstanding Area Chair Award of ACM MM (2024)

FEIT Excellence Award in Early Career Research (2023)

Top 2% of the world’s most cited scientists in 2022 (2023)

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2023)

Best Reseach-in-progress Paper Award of ECIS: 2nd Runner Up (2023)

Outstanding Paper Award of NeurIPS (2022)

Outstanding Reviewer Award of NeurIPS (2021)

Outstanding Reviewer Award of ICLR (2021)

UTS Best PhD Thesis Award (Dean's list)

Best Student Paper Award from IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (2019)

UTS-FEIT HDR Research Excellence Award (2019)

Publons Peer Review Awards - Top 1% reviewers in Computer Science (2019, 2018)

Meritorious Winner in the International Mathematical Contest in Modelling (2011, team leader)