Day 1	3rd July Monday
8:00 - 8:30	Registration
8:30 - 9:00	Opening Ceremony
9:00 - 9:50	Speaker 1 Speaker: Raymond W. Yeung, The Choh-Ming Li Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Title: Machine-Proving of Entropy Inequalities
9:50 - 10:20	Group Photo & Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:10	Speaker 2 Speaker: Yi Ma, Director & Chair Professor, HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science; Head, Department of Computer Science, HKU Title: The Past, Present, and Future of Intelligence: from Artificial Intelligence to Autonomous Intelligence
11:10 - 12:00	Speaker 3 Speaker: Masahito Hayashi, Professor, IEEE Fellow and an IMS Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Title: Iterative Minimization Algorithm on Mixture Family
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:20	Speaker 4 Speaker: Rui Zhang, X.Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor, Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Title: Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) Empowered 6G: Fundamentals, Applications and Challenges
14:20 - 15:10	Speaker 5 Speaker: Ruoyu Sun, Associate Professor, Shenzhen International Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Title: Converge or Diverge? A Story of Adam
15:10 - 15:40	Coffee Break / Poster Session
15:40 - 16:30	Speaker 6 Speaker: Ercan E. Kuruoğlu, Professor, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School Title: Time-varying Topological Signal Processing
16:30 - 18:00	Panel Discussion
18:00 - 20:00	Banquet
Day 2	4th July Tuesday
8:45 - 9:35	Speaker 7 Speaker: Lizhong Zheng, Professor, IEEE Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Title: Decomposition of Multi-Variate Dependence and Application in Parameterized Inference
9:35 - 10:25	Speaker 8 Speaker: Chao Tian, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University Title: On Information Theoretic Generalization Error Bounds for Machine Learning Algorithms
10:25 - 11:10	Coffee Break / Poster Session
11:10 - 12:00	Speaker 9 Speaker: Guangyue Han, Professor, The University of Hong Kong Title: On Sampling Continuous-Time AWGN Channels
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:20	Speaker 10 Speaker: Haim Permuter, Professor, Ben Gurion University Title: A Machine Learning Approach for Estimating and Achieving Capacity Regions of Communication System
14:20 - 15:10	Speaker 11 Speaker: Chandra Nair, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Title: Certain Families of Non-convex Optimization Problems in Information Theory with Unique Local Maximzers
15:10 - 16:00	Speaker 12 Speaker: Amin Gohari, Vice-Chancellor Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Title: Shannon-type Inequalities for f-Divergences
16:00 - 18:00	Transportation to Hong Kong
Day 3	5th July Wednesday
9:00 - 9:50	Speaker 13 Speaker: Deniz Gündüz, Professor, IEEE Fellow, Imperial College London Title: Information Theoretic Results in Semantic and Task-Oriented Communications
9:50 - 10:40	Speaker 14 Speaker: Cynthia Rush, Associate professor, Columbia University Title: Approximate Message Passing Algorithms for High-dimensional Statistical Inference and a Study of the Type 1 - Type 2 Error Tradeoff for SLOPE
10:40 - 11:10	Coffee Break
11:10 - 12:00	Speaker 15 Speaker: Nikolaos Pappas, Associate professor, Linköping University, Sweden Title: From Information Freshness to Semantics of Information and Goal-oriented Communications
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 - 16:00	Outstanding Young Scholar Session
13:30 - 14:20	Speaker 16 Speaker: Uri Cohen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cambridge Title: Characterize the Geometry of Object Manifolds in Deep Neural Networks Using Statistical Physics Methods
14:20 - 15:10	Speaker 17 Speaker: Photios A. Stavrou, Assistant Professor, EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Title: Rate Distortion Perspectives in Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications
15:10 - 16:00	Speaker 18 Speaker: Yihan Zhang, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Science and Technology Austria Title: Discovering Spikes in Random Matrices Using Approximate Message Passing