AI Summer School 2017
Location: Microsoft Research Cambridge UK
Links :
Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme
The Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge
This event is by invitation only.
The AI Summer School continued the tradition of the annual PhD Summer Schools that have been taking place at MSR Cambridge for the past 11 years. The 2017 School focussed on the topic of AI. 93 postgraduate students gathered in the Cambridge Lab in the week of 3 July 2017 to hear about AI, learn general research skills, get to know the MSR Cambridge Lab, and enjoy the opportunity to network and socialize with well-known people in the field as well as getting to know their peers from Universities across Europe and beyond.
Invited students included PhD students in their first or second year from universities and research institutions with which Microsoft Research partners, as well as winners of the Malmo Collaborative AI Challenge and Microsoft Research PhD Scholars.
Confirmed External Speakers
- Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor, University of Cambridge
- Rebecca Fiebrink, Lecturer, Goldsmiths University of London
- Martin Jaggi, Assistant Professor, EPFL
- Anab Jain, Superflux
- Iain Murray, Reader, University of Edinburgh
- Doina Precup, Associate Professor, McGill University
- Thomas Ristenpart, Associate Professor, Cornell Tech
- John Schulman, OpenAI
- Yee Whye Teh, Professor, University of Oxford
- Shimon Whiteson, Associate Professor, University of Oxford
- Steve Young, Professor, University of Cambridge
Confirmed Microsoft Speakers
- Christopher Bishop, Distinguished Scientist and Lab Director, Microsoft Research
- Dan Bohus, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Antonio Criminisi, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Jasmin Fisher, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Katja Hofmann, Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Olya Ohrimenko, Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Simon Peyton Jones, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
- Jamie Shotton, Partner Scientist Lead, Microsoft
- Kenji Takeda, Director, Microsoft Research
- Alex Taylor, Researcher, Microsoft Research
About the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme
The Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme was developed in 2004 to support research collaborations between academics in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region with Microsoft Research researchers in the Cambridge Lab. Currently, there are approximately 100 students working at universities and research organizations across the whole region on peer-reviewed projects and in collaboration with their Microsoft Research Cambridge co-supervisors.
Organisers
Scientific Chair |
 Christopher Bishop, MSR Cambridge |
Scientific Committee |
 Manuel Costa, MSR Cambridge  Katja Hofmann, MSR Cambridge  Cecily Morrison, MSR Cambridge  Sebastian Nowozin, MSR Cambridge  Ryota Tomioka, MSR Cambridge |
General Chair |
 Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, MSR Cambridge |
Logistics Chair |
 Sue Flanders, MSR Cambridge |