Plenary Talks:

• 17th IFAC Triennial World Congress, Seoul, Korea, 2008
  "Stochastic Learning and Optimization - A Sensitivity-Based Approach"
   
• 20th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Yantai, China, 2008
  "Limitation of Markov Models and Event-Based Learning and Optimization"
   
• The Inaugural IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, Singapore, 2007
  "Limitation of Markov Models and Event-Based Learning and Optimization"
   
• 8th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.,2006
  "Event-Based Stochastic Learning and Optimization"

• 12th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Turkey, 2004
  "A Map of the World of Learning and Optimization"
   
• 17th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., 2002
  "Gradient-Based Learning and Optimization"
   
• 3rd Asian Control Conference, Shanghai, China, 2000
  Single Sample Path-Based Optimization Techniques"
   
• Chinese Control Conference, Yellow Mountain, China