December 1, 2020 –
December 2, 2020
PhD Summit 2020
Location: Virtual/Online
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
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| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM | Special Invitation: Virtual Fireside Chat with Professor Yoshua Bengio and Dr. Chris Bishop |
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Yoshua Bengio (opens in new tab), Founder, Mila (Quebec AI Institute) and Professor, Université de Montreal
Christopher Bishop, Technical Fellow and Lab Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| 9:00 AM-9:30 AM | Break before start of PhD Summit agenda | ||
| 9:30 AM-9:45 AM | Welcome to the PhD Summit Watch now > |
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Neel Joshi, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft
Gonzalo Ramos, Principal Researcher, Microsoft |
| 9:45 AM-10:15 AM | Fireside Chat Watch now > |
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Johannes Gehrke, Technical Fellow & Managing Director, Research at Redmond |
| 10:15 AM-10:30 AM | Break | ||
| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM | 1:1 Meeting times with researchers | ||
| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | Meal Break + Networking via MIT & Northeastern’s MINGLR (opens in new tab) | ||
| 12:00 PM-12:30 PM | Fireside Chat Watch now > |
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Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow & Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England, New York City and Montreal |
| 12:30 PM-12:45 PM | Break | ||
| 12:45 PM-1:45 PM | Different Career Paths: Academia and Industry Panel Watch now > |
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Discussion Lead: Gonzalo Ramos, Principal Researcher, Microsoft
Valerie Taylor (opens in new tab), CEO and President, CMD-IT & Director, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory Armando Solar-Lezama (opens in new tab), Professor in EECS and Associate Director and COO of CSAIL Kristin Lauter, Principal Researcher and Partner Research Manager, Microsoft |
| 1:45 PM-2:00 PM | Thank you and closing for Day 1 |
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
| Time (PST) | Session | ||
| 9:30 AM-9:40 AM | Welcome back to day 2 of the PhD Summit Watch now > |
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Meredith Ringel Morris, Sr. Principal Researcher & Research Area Manager, Microsoft |
| 9:40 AM-10:15 AM | When Big Data, Research Ethics, and Human Rights Collide! Watch now > |
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Mary L. Gray, Sr. Principal Researcher, Microsoft |
| 10:15 AM-10:30 AM | Break | ||
| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM | 1:1 Meeting times with researchers | ||
| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | Meal Break + Networking via MIT & Northeastern’s MINGLR (opens in new tab) | ||
| 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Panel & Discussion: Careers at Microsoft Research Watch now > |
 
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Discussion Lead: Denae Ford Robinson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft
Bita Darvish Rouhani, Senior Researcher and Manager, Microsoft Lukas Maas, Senior Research SDE, Microsoft Martez Mott, Senior Researcher, Microsoft |
| 1:00 PM-1:15 PM | Thank you and event wrap-up |
