Talks

• Award talk at the 30th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2026), 12 June 2026

Rethinking Anomaly Detection: From Deep Representations to Generalist Models of the Unknown

• Keynote at the AAAI 2026 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Anomaly Detection, 26 January 2026.

Open-World Anomaly Detection: From Deep Learning to Foundation Models

• Keynote at the AAAI 2026 Workshop on Agentic AI in Financial Services, 26 January 2026.

Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection

• Keynote at the ICAIF 2025 Workshop on AI for Financial Fraud Detection & Prevention, 16 November 2025.

Toward Foundation Models for Detecting Abnormal Activities on Graphs

• Keynote at the WACV 2025 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Anomaly Detection, 04 March 2025. 

Learning Generalist Anomaly Detectors

• Keynote at the IJCAI 2024 Workshop on Anomaly Detection with Foundation Models, 04 Aug 2024.  

Generalist Anomaly Detection

• Invited talk at A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, 01 Nov 2023. Host: Jamie Ng Suat Ling. 

Supervised Anomaly Detection in Open Worlds

• Invited talk at Guangdong Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy Laboratory, 30 Oct 2023. Host: Mingkui Tan. 

Deep Learning of the Unknowns: Anomaly and Out-of-distribution Detection Perspectives

• Invited talk atA*STAR Center for Frontier AI Research (CFAR) Rising Star Lecture Series, 30 Nov 2022. Host: Ivor Tsang. 

Deep Learning of the Unknowns: Anomaly and Out-of-distribution Detection Perspectives