Lectures

• Keynote Speech: Contextual sensitive chatting. Artificial Intelligence Summit, Beijing Asia Grand Hotel, Beijing, China, March 28, 2017.
• Keynote Speech: De novo and antibody sequencing. Fudan University Medical School, Proteomics Workshop, March 27, 2017.
• Keynote Speech: Chatting robots by deep learning. Global Artificial Intellence and Robotics Summit, Chinese Computer Federation, Shenzhen, China, August 12-13, 2016.
• Keynote Speech: Chatting robots by deep learning. 7th Workshop on data mining and intelligent computing. Hefei, China, August 9-10, 2016.
• Keynote Speech: Chatting robots by deep learning. The 3rd workshop on big data and computational intelligence. Beijing, July 29-July 31, 2016.
• Keynote Speech: 13th {\em CCL'2014}, Wuhan, China, Oct 18-19, 2014. Approximating Semantics.
• Keynote Speech: 10th Conf on Algorithmic Aspects of Information and Management. Vancouver, July 8-11, 2014.
• Invited tutorial: Unconventional Computation \& Natural Computation, (Tutorial) London, Ontario. July 14-18, 2014
• Keynote Speech: ISBRA 2014, Zhang Jia Jie, China. June 28-30, 2014
• Public Tianyi Lecture, Ningbo City, China, Oct. 21, 2013 ``Latent Search''.
• University of New Brunswick Annual Lecture in Computer Science: April 11-12, 2013.
• Special Faculty Wide Colloquium: Information distance from a question to an answer. April 18th, 2012.
• Keynote Speech: Sharcnet Research Day, May 23, 2012. Guelph University, Ontario, Canada.
• Keynote Lecture: IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2012), Philadelphia, US, Oct. 4-7, 2012.
• Keynote Speech: ICDM'2011 Workshop on Biological data mining and its applications in healthcare. Vancouver, Dec. 11, 2011.
• Invited Lecture: Solomomonoff 85th Memorial Conference, Melbourne, Australia. Nov. 30--Dec. 2, 2011.
• Invited Lecture, The Fourteenth International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2011), Oct. 5-7, 2011, Espoo, Finland.
• Invited Lecture: ``Kolmogorov complexity and its applications in computer science''. Laurier Centennial Conference: Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science Conference. July 25-29, 2011.
• Invited Lecture: The 9th International Bioinformatics Workshop, Xi'an, China, July 11-13, 2011.
• Keynote Lecture: The 4th Annual Meeting of the Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation (AAAC 2011), April 16-17, 2011, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• Invited Lecture: The 4th Annual Int'l Conf. on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications. Dec. 18-20, 2010, Hawaii.
• Keynote Speech: ACM International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics Oct. 29-30. Toronto.
• Keynote Speech: IEEE Int'l Conf. on Granular Comput. August 14-16, San Jose.
• Keynote Speech: 5th Canadian Student Conf. on Biomedical Comput. and Engineering, May 20-22, 2010, Waterloo, Ontario.
• Invited Lecture: 12th Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems August 8-10, 2010. Saskatoon, Saskatcchewan.
• Keynote Lecture: 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. New Orleans. April 8-10, 2009.
• Distinguished Lecture: Can NMR Protein Structure Determination be Automated? Distinguished lecture series, Computer Science Department, University of Alberta. March 16, 2009.
• Keynote Lecture: 14th Int'l Conf. DNA Computing (DNA14), Prague, June 2-6, 2008.
• Keynote Lecture: 19th Int'l Conf on Genome Informatics (GIW2008). Brisbane, Australia, Dec. 1-3, 2008.
• Distinguished lecture: Computer Science Department, University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Feb. 5, 2008.
• Distinguished lecture: Computer Science Department, University of Texas, Dallas, Sept 14, 2007.
• Invited Lecture: The 13th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference COCOON'07, July 16-19, 2007, Banff, Alberta.
• Invited Lecture: 11th Int'l Conf. Develop. Language Theory DLT 2007, Turku, Finland, July 3-6, 2007.
• Keynote Lecture: 3rd International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2007, Atlanta, May 7-10, 2007.
• Keynote (Dinner) Lecture: Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, July 9-11, 2007.
• Distinguished Lecture: Distinguished Lecture series, School of Computing, Simon Fraser University, Oct. 26, 2006.
• Invited Talk: The Third Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Regulatory Genomics, Singapore, July 17-18, 2006.
• Invited Lecture: 31st Int'l Symp. Math. Found. Computer Science (MFCS'06), Bratislava, Slovakia, Aug. 28 - Sept. 1, 2006,
• Keynote Lecture: IEEE 11th Int'l Conf. on Granular Computing (GrC'06), Atlanta, May 10-12, 2006.
• Invited Lecture: 11th Int'l Conf. on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA'06), Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 21-23, 2006.
• Invited Lecture: The 16th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM) 2005, Jeju Island, Korea, June 19-22, 2005.
• Invited Lecture: The Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, Hong Kong, Dec. 17-22, 2004.
• Distinguished Lecture: Distinguished Seminar series, School of Computing, Queen's University, Nov. 12, 2004.
• Invited Lecture: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Brighton, UK, Nov. 2-4, 2004.
• Invited Lecture: Workshop on Foundations of Data Mining, Brighton, UK, Nov. 1, 2004.
• Keynote Lecture: 2003 Bioinformatics In Taiwan (BIT2003) Symposium, Taiwan, Sept 5-7, 2003.
• Invited Lecture: Australian Joint Artificial Intelligence Conference, Canberra, Australia, Dec. 2-6, 2002.
• Invited Talk: Computational Challenges In The Post-Genomic Age-II, "PatternHunter: Any Genome Anywhere". March 11-13, Durham, North Carolina.
• Invited Lecture: Bioinformatics: new challenges to computer science. Beijing Bioinformatics Conference (Keynote Speaker). Nov. 27, 2000, Beijing, China. (Organized by Academia Sinica and Beijing Genomics Institute.)
• Invited Lecture: Whole genome phylogeny, Case Western Reserve-Netgenics-Athersys mini-symposium on computational genetics, Cleveland, Oct. 20, 2000.
• Invited Lecture: Shared information: genomes, documents, and programs. Bioinformatics Workshop, Wayne State University, Detroit, Oct. 26, 2000.
• 3 hour tutorial: Bioinformatics: new challenges to computer science. ICS Conference. Taiwan, Dec. 5, 2000.
• Keynote Speaker: Average-case analysis using Kolmogorov complexity, CATS'98 -- Computing: The Australasian Theory Symp. Feb. 2-3, 1998, Perth, Australia.
• Invited Speaker: Average-case analysis via incompressibility method, 11th Symp. Fundamentals of Computation Theory (FCT'97), Krakow, Poland, Sept. 1-3, 1997.
• Distinguished Lecture: Kolmogorov complexity and its applications, Center for System Science and School of Computing Science Distinguished Speaker Series, Simon Fraser University, Nov. 21, 1996.
• Invited Public Lecture: A tour through the world of Kolmogorov complexity, City University of Hong Kong. Nov. 13, 1996.
• Invited Lecture: Inferring a DNA sequence from erroneous copies, 6th Annual International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory, Fukuoka, Japan, Oct. 18-20, 1995.
• Invited Lecture: Kolmogorov complexity and its applications, ALCOM Summer School on Complexity, Barcelona, Sept. 5-9, 1994.
• Invited Lecture: DNA sequencing and learning, DIMACS ``Combinatorial methods for DNA mapping and sequencing'' workshop, Oct. 6-9, 1994.
• Invited Lecture: PAC-learning theory and its applications, Canadian Workshop on Machine Learning, Banff, Calgary, May, 1994.
• Invited Lecture: Theories of learning, 3rd International Conference for Young Computer Scientists, Beijing, July, 1993.
• Invited Lecture: Thermodynamics of computing and information distance, 1993 Midwest theory conference, Notre Dame, Indiana, April 3, 1993.
• Invited Lecture: Information distance, 1993 Carleton Annual Theory Symposium, Ottawa, Oct. 16, 1993.
• Invited Lecture: A tour through the world of Kolmogorov complexity, 19th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP'92), Vienna, July 13-17, 1992.
• Invited talk: Bounded time-stamps, Conference on Combinatorics and Complexity, Chicago, June 18, 1987.