IEEE Computational Intelligence Society sponsored lecture was organized from 3 PM in the CSCR Conference Room of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on December 13, 2017. Prof Xin Yao, Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, delivered the lecture on “Ensemble Approaches to Class Imbalance Learning”. The program was attended by around 20 participants, encompassing faculty members and research scholars. Prof Xin Yao delivered his engrossing lecture for around one hour, followed by interesting research discussions on possible future collaboration between the two institutes.