November 6, 2018 – November 7, 2018

Computing in the 21st Century Conference & Asia Faculty Summit on MSRA’s 20th Anniversary

Location: Beijing, China

November 6, 2018

TimeSessionSpeaker
09:20-09:30Welcome and Opening

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Hsiao-Wuen Hon
09:30-09:45Speech

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Satya Nadella
09:45-10:15Speech

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Harry Shum
10:15-11:00AI: Background, History and Future Opportunities

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Raj Reddy
11:00-11:45Automating Customizable Computing —Democratizing Accelerator Designs at the Edge and in the Cloud

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Jason Cong
11:45-12:00MSRA Fellowship Award Ceremony 
12:00-12:30Q&A with Keynote Speakers 
12:30-13:30Lunch 
13:30-17:00Microsoft Research Lab Director ForumChair:

Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research Labs & AI
Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia

Presentations: Microsoft Research 360

  • Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Labs & AI
  • Donald Kossmann, Microsoft Research Redmond
  • Jennifer Chayes/Sharon Gillett, Microsoft Research New England, NYC, and Montreal
  • Christopher Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge
  • Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Microsoft Research Asia

Panel: How to do high impact research in industrial labs?

  • Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research Labs & AI
  • Donald Kossmann, Microsoft Research Redmond
  • Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research New England, NYC, and Montreal
  • Christopher Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge
  • Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Microsoft Research Asia
 Data and KnowledgeChair:

Dongmei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia

Speakers:

  • Tao Xie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Hongyu Zhang, University of Newcastle
  • Bin Yao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Seung-won Hwang, Yonsei University
  • Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  • Winston H. Hsu, National Taiwan University
 Systems and NetworkingChair:

Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia
Lintao Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia
Yongqiang Xiong, Microsoft Research Asia

Speakers:

  • Butler Lampson, Microsoft Research New England
  • Fengyuan Xu, Nanjing University
  • Wenfei Wu, Tsinghua University
  • Chuan Wu, University of Hong Kong
  • Byung-Gon Chun, Seoul National University
  • Zhi Yang, Peking University
  • Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
18:00-20:00Asia Faculty Summit Banquet 

November 7, 2018

TimeSessionSpeaker
9:00-9:45Panel – The Journey of Talent Fostering in Computer Science
  • Peter Lee, Microsoft Research
  • John Hopcroft, Cornell University
  • Seung-won Hwang, Yonsei University
  • Butler Lampson, Microsoft Research New England
9:45-10:30The Advent of Quantum Computing

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Andrew Yao
10:30-11:15Towards a Conscious AI: A Computer Architecture Inspired by Cognitive Neuroscience

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Lenore Blum
11:15-12:00Challenges for Deep Learning towards Human-Level AI

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Yoshua Bengio
12:00-12:30Q&A with Keynote Speakers 
12:30-13:30Lunch 
13:30-17:00Visual ComputingChair: Wenjun Zeng, Microsoft Research Asia

Speakers:

  • Changwen Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen
  • Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University
  • Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo
  • Yizhou Wang, Peking University
  • Kyoung Mu Lee, Seoul National University
  • Seungyong Lee, POSTECH
  • Xuejin Chen, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Long Quan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
 Machine LearningChair:

Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia
Tao Qin, Microsoft Research Asia

Presentations: Recent development of machine learning:

  • Weinan Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Sinno Jialin Pan, Nanyang Technological University
  • Jaegul Choo, Korea University
  • Sungroh Yoon, Seoul National University
  • Jian Li, Tsinghua University
  • Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University

Panel: The future of machine learning

  • Lei Chen, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • James Kwok, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Seong-Whan Lee, Korea University
  • Liwei Wang, Peking University
  • Changshui Zhang, Tsinghua University
 AI in Practice
*Language: Chinese with simultaneous interpreting		Chair: Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia

Presentations: What are the new progress of AI research and technology?

  • Ting Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Xilin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Jie Tang, Tsinghua University
  • Wenwu Zhu, Tsinghua University
  • Furu Wei, Microsoft Research Asia

Panel: how does AI empower products?

  • Weiying Ma, ByteDance (Jinritoutiao)
  • Jian Sun, Face++
  • Yingqing Xu, Tsinghua University
  • Shipeng Li, iFLY