November 4, 2016 - November 5, 2016

Asia Faculty Summit 2016

Location: Seoul, the Republic of Korea

Friday, November 4

Time	Session	Speaker
08:20 – 08:30	Opening and Welcome	Yong-Hak Kim, President, Yonsei University Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research
08:30 – 09:30	Future AI 2025	Moderator: Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Panelists: Marti A. Hearst, University of California, Berkeley Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Microsoft Research Seong-Whan Lee, Korea University Masashi Sugiyama, RIKEN / The University of Tokyo
09:30 – 09:50	Break
09:50 – 11:10	MSR AI Engage – Learning and Intelligence	Chair: Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research Speakers: Nicole Beckage, The University of Kansas Katsu Ikeuchi, Microsoft Research Change D. Yoo, KAIST
	How to Make Spoken Dialogue based Intelligent Agent Pervasive?	Chair: Qiang Huo, Microsoft Research Speakers: Jingdong Chen, Northwestern Polytechnical University Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
	Conversation As A Platform (CAAP)	Chair: Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Speakers: Tim Baldwin, The University of Melbourne Jun Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research
11:10 – 12:30	Machine Learning: Theory Meets Application	Chair: Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Speakers: Wei Chen, Microsoft Research Hwanjo Yu, POSTECH Wensheng Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
	Video Analysis and Understanding	Chair: Wenjun Zeng, Microsoft Research Speakers: Gunhee Kim, Seoul National University Shin’ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Junsong Yuan, Nanyang Technological University
	Machine Translation	Chair: Mu Li, Microsoft Research Speakers: Boxing Chen, National Research Council Canada Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Jiajun Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch + Research Showcase
14:00 – 15:20	Machine Learning System and Infrastructure	Chair: Tao Qin, Microsoft Research Speakers: James Tin-Yau Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Chih-Jen Lin, National Taiwan University Taifeng Wang, Microsoft Research
	Social Multimedia and Visual Q&A	Chair: Jingdong Wang, Microsoft Research Speakers: Peng Cui, Tsinghua University Toshi Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo Lexing Xie, The Australian National University
	Knowledge Mining	Chair: Jun Yan, Microsoft Research Speakers: Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University Seung-Won Hwang, Yonsei University Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University
15:20 – 16:40	Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning	Chair: Taifeng Wang, Microsoft Research Speakers: Tao Qin, Microsoft Research Masashi Sugiyama, RIKEN / The University of Tokyo Dit-Yan Yeung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	Learning for Vision and Multimedia	Chair: Jingdong Wang, Microsoft Research Speakers: Tatsuya Harada, The University of Tokyo Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University Kyong Mu Lee, Seoul National University
	Big Scholarly Data Research, Utilities, and Impact Assessments	Chair: Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research Speakers: Xueqi Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences Seung-won Hwang, Yonsei University Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong Sung-Hyon Myaeng, KAIST Min Song, Yonsei University Chengxiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
16:40 – 17:00	Break
17:00 – 18:00	Future Talent 2040	Moderator: Tim Pan, Microsoft Research Panelists: Juliana Freire, New York University Sue Moon, KAIST Fred Schneider, Cornell University Xiaofan Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
18:30 – 20:30	Dinner Event at Four Seasons Hotel Seoul

Saturday, November 5

Time	Session	Speaker
08:30 – 09:50	Machine Learning: Generative vs. Discriminative	Chair: Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Speakers: Seungjin Choi, POSTECH Alice Oh, KAIST Tao Qin, Microsoft Research
	3D Real World Capturing and Reconstruction	Chair: Richard Cai, Microsoft Research Speakers: Min H. Kim, KAIST Yebin Liu, Tsinghua University Yasuyuki Matsushita, Osaka University
	Urban Big Data and Urban Computing	Chair: Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Speakers: Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University Vincent S. Tseng, National Chiao Tung University
09:50 – 11:10	Robotics	Chair: Katsu Ikeuchi, Microsoft Research Speakers: Masayuki Inaba, The University of Tokyo Hiroshi Ishiguro, Osaka University Jin Bae Park, Yonsei University.
	Computer Vision	Chair: Gang Hua, Microsoft Research Speakers: Xilin Chen, Chinese Academy Sciences Sudipta Sinha, Microsoft Research Xiaogang Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
	AI and Psychology	Chair: Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Speakers: Hao Chen, Nankai University De-Nian Yang, Academia Sinica Tingshao Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
11:10 – 11:30	Break
11:30 – 12:30	Artificial Intelligence Research at Microsoft Research Asia	Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch & Networking