About
The 7th annual workshop of the Swiss Joint Research Centre, a collaborative engagement between Microsoft Research and ETH Zurich and EPFL, will take place January 29-30, 2020 at EPFL in Lausanne. Each of the twelve project teams will provide an update on their project and engage in project team discussions and wider networking activities.
More information on current and past projects can be found here.
The draft agenda is available on the agenda tab.
Agenda
Day 1 – Wednesday, January 29
| Time | Session | Speaker | Institution |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Swiss JRC Workshop Registration and Lunch |
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| 13:30 – 13:45 | Welcome | Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche | Microsoft |
| Session 1 Mixed Reality and AI | |||
| 13:45 – 14:15 | Monitoring, Modelling, and Modifying Dietary Habits and Nutrition Based on Large-Scale Digital Traces | Kristina Gligorić | EPFL |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | The ‘Seen but Unnoticed’ Vocabulary of Natural Touch: Revolutionizing Device Interaction via Embodied Sensing | Christian Holz | ETH Zürich |
| 14:45 – 15:10 | Mixed Reality & AI Zurich Lab Overview | Marc Pollefeys | ETH Zürich/Microsoft |
| 15:10 – 15:40 | Afternoon Break and Group Photo | ||
| 15:40 – 16:05 | Hands in Contact for Augmented Reality: A Domain Adaptation Perspective for Joint Hand-Object 3D Reconstruction | Mengshi Qi | EPFL |
| 16:05 – 16:30 | A Modular Approach for Lifelong Mapping from End-User Data | Lukas Schmid, Roland Siegwart, Johannes Schoenberger, Cesar Cadena, Juan Nieto | ETH Zürich |
| 16:30 – 16:55 | Skilled Assistive-Care Robots through Immersive Mixed-Reality Telemanipulation | Roi Poranne | ETH Zürich |
| 16:55 – 17:20 | Project Altair – Infrared Vision and AI Decision-Making for Longer Drone Flights | Florian Achermann | ETH Zürich |
| 17:30 | Day 1 Close |
Day 2 – Thursday, January 30
| Time | Session | Speaker | Institution |
| 9:00 – 09:30 | Views from the Cambridge Lab | Chris Bishop | Microsoft |
| Session 2: Systems & Security in the Cloud | |||
| 09:30 – 09:45 | MSRC Optics for the Cloud Introduction | Sophie Lange | Microsoft |
| 09:45 – 10:05 | Photonic Integrated Multi-Wavelength Sources for Data Centers | Arslan Sajid Raja | EPFL |
| 10:05 – 10:30 | Optimizing the Use of Resources in the Reversible Circuit Synthesis Problem | Niels Gleinig | ETH Zürich |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Break | ||
| 11:00 – 11:25 | Infrastructure for microsecond-scale Remote Procedure Calls | Marios Kogias | EPFL |
| 11:25 – 11:50 | Automatic Recipe Generation for ML.NET Pipelines | Bojan Karlaš | ETH Zürich |
| 11:50 – 12:15 | Tiered NVM Designs, Software-NVM Interfaces, and Isolation Support | Lois Orosa | ETH Zürich |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Closing Remarks | ||
| 12:30 – 13:15 | Lunch and Event Close |
Evening Event
| Time | Evening Plan |
| 17.30 – 18:00 | Board Coach and travel to Olympic Museum |
| 18.00 – 18.30 | Apéro at the Museum |
| 18.30 – 20.00 | Guided Tour of Museum |
| 20.00 – 22.30 | Dinner at Olympic Museum (academia and industry) |
| 22.30 – 23:00 | Board Coach and drop off guests at Starling Hotel Lausanne |
| 23.00 – 23:15 | Continue to EPFL to drop off remaining guests |
Hotels
Please find a list of suggested hotels for the event:
Located next to the Swiss Tech Convention center.
Location EPFL campus
15 minute drive from EPFL
15 minute drive from EPFL
30 minute drive from EPFL