Tutorial: Best practices for prioritizing fairness in AI systems
Speakers: Amit Deshpande, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research India Amit Sharma, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research India As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform people’s
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Demo: RAI Toolbox: An open-source framework for building responsible AI
Speakers: Besmira Nushi, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Mehrnoosh Sameki, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Amit Sharma, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
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Opening remarks: Responsible AI
Speaker: Hanna Wallach, Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research NYC As we’ve seen in countless media articles, AI systems can behave unfairly or unreliably.
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Closing remarks: Deep Learning and Large Scale AI
Speaker: Jianfeng Gao, Distinguished Scientist & Vice President, Microsoft Research Redmond AI has undergone a transformation in recent years with the emergence of large-scale models and deep
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Roundtable discussion: Beyond language models: Knowledge, multiple modalities, and more
Speakers: Yonatan Bisk, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Daniel McDuff, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Dragomir Radev, A.
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Research talk: Closing the loop in natural language interfaces to relational databases
Speaker: Dragomir Radev, A.
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Just Tech: Bringing CS, the social sciences, and communities together for societal resilience
Moderator: Mary Gray, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research New England Speakers: Andrew Herrera, Executive Director, Curamericas Global Dr.
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Research talk: WebQA: Multihop and multimodal
Speaker: Yonatan Bisk, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Web search is fundamentally multimodal and multihop.
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Opening remarks: Tech for resilient communities
Speaker: Vi Hart, Director of Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Research Redmond This track will examine processes and techniques for developing technology in conjunction with community partners
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Research talk: Towards Self-Learning End-to-end Dialog Systems
Speaker: Baolin Peng, Senior RSDE, Microsoft Research Redmond At present, deep neural networks have become prevalent for building AI systems for vision, language and multimodality.
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Research talk: Focal Attention: Towards local-global interactions in vision transformers
Speaker: Jianwei Yang, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond At present, deep neural networks have become prevalent for building AI systems for vision, language and multimodality.
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Research talk: Knowledgeable pre-trained language models
Speaker: Zhiyuan Liu, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University Over the past years, large-scale pretrained models with billions of parameters have improved the state of the art in nearly every
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Opening remarks: Deep Learning and Large-Scale AI
Speaker: Ahmed Awadallah, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Redmond AI has undergone a transformation in recent years with the emergence of large-scale models and deep learning.
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Closing remarks: Cloud Intelligence/AIOps
Speaker: Jim Kleewein, Technical Fellow, Microsoft 365 Learn more about the 2021 Microsoft Research Summit: Aka.ms/researchsummit
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Research talk: Optimizing the cloud supply chain
Speaker: Konstantina Mellou, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond The cloud supply chain includes multiple business-critical stages, such as procuring hardware from multiple suppliers
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Research talk: Automating and Optimizing IT Operations Management with AI
Speaker: Rama Akkiraju, IBM Fellow, CTO AIOps, IBM The vision of self-aware, self-healing, and self-managing Information Technology (IT) systems has remained elusive till recently.
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Research talk: An intelligent data-driven paradigm towards cloud reliability
Speaker: Michael Lyu, Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong Cloud systems are perhaps the most complicated computing systems developed so far, yet our daily lives depend heavily on their
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Talk: Multidimensional analysis of cloud-native software based on large-scale operation data
Speaker: Xin Peng, Professor and Deputy Dean, School of Computer Science, Fudan University, China Dynamic and static analysis of source code has been widely used in software development practices
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Keynote: Cloud Intelligence: Infusing AI into cloud computing systems
Speaker: Dongmei Zhang, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia Cloud computing platforms have become part of the basic infrastructure of the world, bringing unprecedented opportunities of
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Opening remarks: Cloud Intelligence/AIOps
Speaker: Marcus Fontoura, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure Cloud computing platforms have become part of the basic infrastructure of the world, bringing unprecedented opportunities of digital
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Research talk: NUWA: Neural visual world creation with multimodal pretraining
Speakers: Lei Ji, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia Chenfei Wu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia Over the past years, large-scale pretrained models with billions of parameters
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Research talk: Large-scale, self-supervised pretraining: From language to vision
Speakers: Li Dong, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Furu Wei, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Over the past years, large-scale pretrained models with billions of
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Roundtable discussion: Efficient and adaptable large-scale AI
Speakers: Ahmed Awadallah, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Redmond Jianfeng Gao, Distinguished Scientist & Vice President, Microsoft Research Redmond Danqi Chen, Assistant
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Research talk: Prompt tuning: What works and what's next
Speaker: Danqi Chen, Assistant Professor, Princeton University The AI landscape has been transformed by the advent of large-scale models like BERT, Turing, and, most recently, GPT-3.
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Closing remarks: Research for Carbon Negative
Speaker: Karin Strauss, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Redmond Learn more about the 2021 Microsoft Research Summit: Aka.ms/researchsummit
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Research talks: Research partners on innovation for carbon neutralization
Research talks: Research partners on innovation for carbon neutralization 0:00 Session overview Speaker: Beibei Shi, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia 3:52 Mimicking
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Panel: Innovative solutions and frontier technology for carbon neutralization from different angles
Moderator: Tim Pan, Senior Outreach Director, Microsoft Research Asia Panelists: Peng Gong, Professor, University of Hong Kong Shuxiao Wang, Professor, Tsinghua University Tie-Yan Liu, Assistant
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Research talk: Nexus between climate change and energy policy: Lessons from California
Speaker: Robert Weisenmiller, Research Affiliate, University of California at Berkeley and Former Chair, California Energy Commission Evidence of climate change is becoming clear.
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Research talk: Sustainable energy for all and the role of innovation
Speaker: Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO, Sustainable Energy for All Learn more about the 2021 Microsoft Research Summit: Aka.ms/researchsummit
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Research talk: When climate is everything, all systems must change
Speaker: Rachel Kyte, Dean, Fletcher School, Tufts University Curbing carbon pollution to halt warming at 1.5 degrees and adapt to climate impacts requires recalibrating our financial system to
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