# Event Details - **Event Name**: IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecture given by Prof Mengchu Zhou - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 15 Sep, 2026 at 10:00 am – Tue, 15 Sep, 2026 at 11:00 am (+01:00) - **Event Description**: Join Prof. MengChu Zhou for an IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecture on student-centred knowledge distillation and its AI applications.About this EventThe IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC) Portsmouth Chapter is pleased to invite you to an IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecture delivered by Prof. MengChu Zhou, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA.The lecture will explore recent advances in knowledge distillation, with particular emphasis on student-centred approaches inspired by human educational principles, control systems, curriculum learning, and their applications to computer vision.The event will be delivered in a hybrid format, and participants may attend either in person at the University of Portsmouth or online.Lecture TitleA Multi-discipline Approach to Advancing Knowledge Distillation and its ApplicationsAbstractKnowledge distillation is among the core technologies in Artificial Intelligence, and its deployment enables users to benefit from many AI applications on resource-constrained end devices such as mobile phones.Existing studies on knowledge distillation mainly focus on teacher-centred methods, in which the teacher network is trained according to its own standards before transferring the learned knowledge to a student network. However, due to differences in network structures between teacher and student networks, the knowledge learned by the teacher may not necessarily be what the student requires.Inspired by human educational wisdom, we propose a Student-Centered Distillation (SCD) method that enables the teacher network to adjust its knowledge transfer according to the student's actual needs.The approach incorporates principles inspired by human education. For example, the teacher network identifies and learns the knowledge required by the student network using the validation set and subsequently transfers this knowledge to the student through the training set.To address challenges including knowledge deficiency, hard-sample learning, and knowledge forgetting during the student's learning process, we introduce and improve Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control algorithms to identify the knowledge currently required by the student network.Furthermore, a curriculum-learning-based fuzzy strategy is integrated with the proposed PID control algorithm, enabling the student network to actively focus on challenging samples.Experimental results demonstrate that SCD outperforms existing teacher-centred knowledge distillation methods across multiple computer vision tasks, ranging from object detection to image segmentation.About the SpeakerProf. MengChu Zhou is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA.He received his B.S. degree in Control Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 1983, his M.S. degree in Automatic Control from Beijing Institute of Technology in 1986, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1990.His research interests include Petri nets, intelligent automation, Internet of Things, big data, web services, and intelligent transportation. He has published more than 800 works, including 12 books and over 500 journal papers, and holds 12 patents.Prof. Zhou is the founding Editor of the IEEE Press Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica.His honours include the Humboldt Research Award, the IEEE SMC Society Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award, and the IEEE SMC Society Norbert Wiener Award.He currently serves as Vice President for Conferences and Meetings of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, AAAS, and CAA.Who Should Attend?The lecture will be of particular interest to:Researchers and academics working in Artificial Intelligence and machine learningPhD and postgraduate studentsComputer vision researchersResearchers interested in knowledge distillation and efficient deep learningResearchers working on intelligent systems, control systems, and edge AIIEEE members and the wider research communityAttendance is free, but registration is required.Online AttendanceThis event is available both in person and online.Online participants can join on Teams.In-person VenueRoom 0.34, Portland BuildingUniversity of PortsmouthPortland StreetPortsmouthPO1 3AH - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portsmouth/ieee-smc-distinguished-lecture-given-by-prof-mengchu-zhou/100001998744003118 - **Event Categories**: fitness, science-fair, Workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Portland Building - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Portsmouth - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Portland Building - **lat**: 50.7986178 - **long**: -1.0993137 - **full address**: Portland Building, 0.34 Portland Street, Portsmouth, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecture given by Prof Mengchu Zhou - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/79ae777fa0490a9e916e47ced21fc338e9340688aaae7a3ad9784fc23de11f23-rimg-w940-h470-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg?v=1787579164 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecture given by Prof Mengchu Zhou being held? - **A:** IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecture given by Prof Mengchu Zhou takes place on Tue, 15 Sep, 2026 at 10:00 am to Tue, 15 Sep, 2026 at 11:00 am at Portland Building, 0.34 Portland Street, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecture given by Prof Mengchu Zhou? - **A:** IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecture given by Prof Mengchu Zhou is organized by University of Portsmouth. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecture given by Prof Mengchu Zhou", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/79ae777fa0490a9e916e47ced21fc338e9340688aaae7a3ad9784fc23de11f23-rimg-w940-h470-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg?v=1787579164", "startDate": "2026-09-15T10:00:00+01:00", "endDate": "2026-09-15T11:00:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/portsmouth/ieee-smc-distinguished-lecture-given-by-prof-mengchu-zhou/100001998744003118", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Portland Building", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "0.34 Portland Street", "postalCode": "PO1 3AH", "addressLocality": "Portsmouth", "addressRegion": "EN", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "50.7986178", "longitude": "-1.0993137" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join Prof. MengChu Zhou for an IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecture on student-centred knowledge distillation and its AI applications.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-08-24", "availabilityEnds": "2026-09-15T11:00:00+01:00", "validFrom": "2026-08-24", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/portsmouth/ieee-smc-distinguished-lecture-given-by-prof-mengchu-zhou/100001998744003118" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "GBP", "availabilityStarts": "2026-08-24", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-08-24", "url": "https://allevents.in/portsmouth/ieee-smc-distinguished-lecture-given-by-prof-mengchu-zhou/100001998744003118", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "University of Portsmouth", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/university-of-portsmouth/28117575" } ] } ] ```