Asia Faculty Summit 2010

Welcome and Academic Collaboration Overview | Presentation (opens in new tab) | Video (opens in new tab)

• Lolan Song, Senior Director, University Relations, Microsoft Research Asia

Microsoft Research Update | Presentation (opens in new tab) | Video (opens in new tab)

• Rick Rashid (opens in new tab), Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research
• Hsiao-Wuen Hon (opens in new tab), Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia

RARE: Rethinking Architectural Research and Education | Presentation (opens in new tab) | Video (opens in new tab)

• Chuck Thacker (opens in new tab), Turing Award winner, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research

Panel Discussion: Internet of Things | Presentation (opens in new tab) | Video (opens in new tab)

Session Chair:

• Feng Zhao, Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia

Panelists:

• David Culler, UC Berkeley; Guihai Chen, Nanjing University; Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University; Catharine van Ingen, Microsoft Research

Cloud Computing Paradigm Shift | Presentation (opens in new tab) | Video (opens in new tab)

• Enwei Xie, General Manager, Microsoft China

• John Hopcroft, Turing Award winner, Cornell University

Session Chair:

• Baining Guo (opens in new tab), Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia

• Curtis Wong (opens in new tab), Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
• Chenzhou Cui, National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Wei-Ying Ma (opens in new tab), Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia

Session Chair:

• Tony Hey, Corporate Vice-President, Microsoft Research

Panelists:

• Key-Sun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology; Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University; Jimmy Liu, A*STAR; Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo and University of Manchester

• Natural User Interaction: Exploring Future Computer Interfaces Today—Session Chair: Frank Soong (opens in new tab), Microsoft Research Asia

Presentations:

• A Universal Approach to Synthesizing High Quality Speech and Photo-Real Talking—Frank Soong (opens in new tab), Microsoft Research Asia | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• Toward Music Listening Interfaces in the Future—Masataka Goto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• Be What’s Next–Context-aware Intelligent Companions (CAIC)—Chin-Yew Lin (opens in new tab), Microsoft Research Asia
• Interacting with Face—Jian Sun, Microsoft Research Asia | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• Natural User Interfaces for Activity-based UbiComp—James Landay, University of Washington | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• Natural User Interactions Research: NUI Opportunities for Collaboration—Stewart Tansley, Microsoft Research | Presentation (opens in new tab)

• Mobile Sensing—Session Co-Chairs: Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Asia; Jacky Shen, Microsoft Research Asia

Presentations:

• Challenges in Creating Ubiquitous Services with Mobile Sensing Systems—Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• Internet of Things Towards Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing—Guihai Chen, Nanjing University | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• Mobile Sensing in UbiComp and Persuasive Technologies—Hao-Hua Chu, National Taiwan University | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• SensorWeb and Its Extension to Support Mobile Sensing—Jacky Shen, Microsoft Research Asia | Presentation (opens in new tab)

• Finding, Keeping, and Nurturing Talent: The Key to Success—Session Co-Chairs: Baining Guo (opens in new tab), Microsoft Research Asia; Weiping Li, University of Science and Technology of China

Presentations:

• Overview: Talent Programs at Microsoft Research Asia—Lolan Song, Microsoft Research Asia | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• Requests from Customers, and Our Efforts and Plans to the Requests—HyunWook Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• Recruiting, Cultivating, and Retaining Talented Academic Researchers: The Case of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology—Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• Reducing Talent Gap—Xiaoning Ling, X-Gainian Foundation | Presentation (opens in new tab)
• Teaching Advanced Software Engineering—Xin Zou, Microsoft Research Asia | Presentation (opens in new tab)

Wrap-up session | Presentation (opens in new tab)

• Mobile Sensing—Jacky Shen, Microsoft Research Asia
• Finding, Keeping, and Nurturing Talent: The Key to Success—Weiping Li, University of Science and Technology of China
• Natural User Interaction—Frank Soong (opens in new tab), Microsoft Research Asia, James Landay, University of Washington