2023 Kiss Science ─ 科學開門，青春不悶
2023/11/4
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2023 AI BootCamp
歡迎踴躍報名2023 AI 創新研究營 AI BootCamp！
自從2018年開始，臺大AI中心每年與Google共同舉辦「AI創新研究營」，第六屆活動將於2023年8月17日以實體方式舉行，主題為近期有大幅突破的Large Language Models 以及Google Research Collaborations分享合作研究的形式與成果。
本次堪稱是Google講者來臺技術層級最高，共邀請到 Google 的大語言模型研發團隊的6位專家，與臺灣學研團隊進行前瞻技術分享交流。另外也透過合作案例的分享，藉此促進產學對話，尋求更多的合作研究機會。
📌Time: 2023/08/17(Thu)
📌Location: 臺灣大學資訊工程學系德田館R103會議室 NTU CSIE R301
📌Sign up:LINK ，8/12 deadline
📌Agenda2023 AI創新研究營
《活動注意事項》
● 本次活動報名完成不等於活動錄取， 審核通過者將於報名截止後一周內收到錄取通知的電子郵件。
● 與會者於活動全程禁止拍照、錄影、錄音。主辦單位將進行拍攝，其影像僅提供日後教育推廣及成果紀錄使用。
● 國際會議廳禁止飲食，因生理需求喝水除外。
● 為維護場地清潔，活動結束時請協助將垃圾攜出。
《防疫措施說明》
● 因國際會議廳空間較為密閉，建議全程配戴口罩。
● 報到處提供酒精消毒設備，可多加使用。
● 若有呼吸道症狀者、額溫超過攝氏37.5度者，建議盡速就醫請勿入場。
※臺大AI中心所收集的姓名、電子郵件等個人資料，僅供活動報名依據，及事後活動成效分析之用，並不做其他用途※
※ 主辦單位保有最終修改、變更、活動解釋及取消本活動之權利※
活動聯絡人：aintu@ntu.edu.tw
主辦單位：
臺大人工智慧技術暨全幅健康照護聯合研究中心AINTU
【Info Update】Sign up for the “International Symposium on AI Research and Law”
為推動臺灣AI科研落實人社法制與資料治理，國家科學及技術委員會(NSTC)將於3月9日假成功大學舉辦「人工智慧科研與法制國際論壇」。
本次論壇邀請美國AI倫理法制研究具卓越聲譽的法學專家，與國內AI法制學者、醫療AI科研學者齊聚，自智慧醫療領域切入，探討醫療資料釋出AI應用研究的實務議題，及所需的AI倫理與法制共識，透過搭建AI科研與倫理法制之對話，引領臺灣聚焦AI科研與法制共融之智慧醫療發展。
●Time: 2023/03/09 AM 09:30-15:30
●Location: Department of Electrical Engineering, Tzu-Chang Campus, National Cheng Kung University No. 1, Daxue Rd., East Dist., Tainan City, Taiwan 701401
●Sign up: https://docs.google.com/……/1FAIpQLScC7fF……/viewform
歡迎對於醫療領域之AI科研與法制共融發展有興趣者, 踴躍報名參加。
論壇分「實體會議」及「線上直播」同步進行。
實體會議時現場會提供中文同步口譯 ，線上直播僅原文呈現。
論壇採線上報名，唯實體論壇入場名額有限，請儘早報名保留席次，以免向隅。
Trustworthy AI Summit
「Trustworthy AI Summit 可信任AI國際論壇」由工研院(ITRI) 與 臺大AI中心(AINTU) 共同主辦，
【活動訊息轉發】歡迎報名參加專題演講(2023/01/03)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAqyWSfc1ru9AGMQHzrtDLYmxBejbIi12ukmAPv2jdkUNZeQ/viewform
Sign up for the “Inernational Symposium on Ethics and Law in the Age of AI”(2022/12/21)
此次論壇邀請來自美國及澳洲的國際法學專家，以及台灣AI及法學相關專業人士與會，
共同探討如何因應AI人工智慧在日益蓬勃發展下，對當前社會倫理與法律的衝擊挑戰，
交流歐美國家先進的AI治理經驗。
Information:
If there is any question, please Call 02-2511 3318 #411 Taiwan AICoE Ms. chong
●線上參加
報名截止日：2022/7/5(Tue)
【跨域應用AI技術 台大人工智慧中心展現前瞻研發新量能】
近年數位轉型與AI技術蓬勃發展，是各個產業關注的議題。而一個技術從研究開發到實際的產業應用，需要多方的合作與投入。協助跨領域技術與產業順利連結，是臺大AI中心的重點目標之一，為促成產學交流與合作，臺大AI中心於110年11月26日(五) 舉辦線上「臺大AI中心暨轄下計畫成果發表會」。此次由中心轄下AI核心技術及醫療照護領域的研究團隊，透過技術講演及海報展示，分兩個場次發表多項前瞻研究成果與應用方向。
在AI核心技術場次中，電腦視覺與多媒體類別研究團隊結合眾多技術，已生成相關落地應用於視訊監控與醫學影像、手機晶片與製造，與銀行及輿情分析產業等。其中，臺大陳祝嵩教授團隊所訓練的永續終身學習(CLL)模型應用在工業的瑕疵檢測上，能將所有的瑕疵辨認整合在同一模型進行，可達到增加新的偵測目標而不影響原本的辨識率。
此外，陳祝嵩團隊所開發的Audio visual語音增強技術，透過灰階化、降解析、自編碼等多重手法，讓影像處理成本降至與音訊處理相當，並確保流程中影像無法還原，但仍可保持優異效果，在影像資料分享的過程中同時兼顧效能及隱私。
清大林嘉文教授團隊利用深度學習研發出半導體製程EDA工具，可以早期預測光刻製程所產生的電路失真及光罩修正，可應用於IC 製程之佈局圖評估、IC 瑕疵、熱區預測，及光罩優化等。這是全世界第一套以電腦視覺準確預測光刻製程對晶圓線路所產生的失真之技術，大幅超前目前EDA設計工具，可望造成半導體製程EDA之典範轉移。
AI晶片、硬體設計與通訊類別研究團隊也開發出多項實用技術。元智大學方士豪教授研究團隊開發之毫米波雷達動態感知技術，可在有隱私疑慮的遠距居家照護機構場景，用於偵測跌倒事件發生、或是監測臥床者之生理指數，降低照護者之負擔。
目前離線聲控裝置不易達到大字彙的關鍵字語音辨識，方士豪團隊研發出個人化語音增強技術，可在離線狀態下消除語音訊號中的雜訊，提升關鍵字辨識率，可應用於家電及家庭照護等語音控制裝置。
上圖：方士豪團隊以「個人化語音強化系統」獲頒2019未來科技突破獎。
另外，如何將需要大量計算的AI技術在終端裝置實現，可高度平行化處理的通用繪圖處理器(GPGPU)是一個未來方向。成大陳中和教授團隊自2013年起規畫開發的CASLab GPU，目標是打造出第一顆國內自製的SIMT運算型GPU。
上圖：陳中和團隊以「符合OpenCL/TensorFlow API 規範的通用繪圖處理器」獲頒2020旺宏金矽獎。
透過優化的編譯流程，使軟體堆疊更能配合硬體的運作，大幅提升整體效能，且提供開源的開發執行環境。軟體層無論OpenCL Runtime、Compiler都是以C語言開發，可以搭配在Arm、 RISC-V等常見的CPU平台上運作。這項技術也已開始技轉多家廠商，快速為MCU升級AI能力。
在這個連網智慧服務的時代，人們已習慣使用網路服務，近年來產業界也大量在第一線使用AI智能客服。若要達到精準應對，大範圍的知識庫是不可或缺的。在自然語言與情緒運算類別中，中研院馬偉雲教授團隊開發的獨特知識表達模式，將原本的常識 (廣義知網E-HowNet) 附加知識 (維基百科的文本資料)，擴大詞彙規模，打造一個百萬詞彙級別的中文知識圖譜。
透過加以組合或分解，用有限的概念表達無限的語意，使得機器可以更容易地進行邏輯推論。不僅可強化AI智能應用(如Chatbot) 對中文語意理解的能力，也可用於各種語意分析工具及中文或華語教學。已有多個產業單位接洽並導入應用。
機器學習、深度學習與資安隱私也是在人工智慧相關研究中的熱門關鍵字。現今有許多透過雲端使用的線上機器學習服務，但資料遭竊取事件頻傳，甚至有透過深度學習重建原圖進行的非法行為。由臺大吳沛遠教授團隊提出之生成對抗壓縮隱私網路，透過非線性技術處理圖片及影片，能夠保留動作識別所需特徵，但避免暴露影片中人物的身分。
該團隊也研發以多方安全計算技術應用於深度學習的圖像分類問題上，用以保護類神經網路，使外界無法得知透過哪些資料進行訓練。此技術適合應用於醫學影像、臉部辨識、虹膜辨識等機密檔案的相關工作。運用這些技術，一方面保有足夠資訊讓業者提供雲端服務，同時能維護使用者的隱私。
在醫療照護場次部分，有多項醫學影像的研究成果已實際導入醫療場域使用。如臺大張瑞峰教授團隊運用深度學習技術開發的全自動乳房超音波乳癌偵測與診斷系統，採用一次性檢查設計，1秒內即可完成一個全自動乳房超音波(300 張影像)的乳癌檢閱程序，較傳統方法大幅縮短閱片時間，並能精確定位乳癌位置及顯示區域並進行診斷，具有95%的正確度。
此外，乳癌診斷準確度亦達89.2%，已具有高度臨床價值。而臺大黃升龍教授團隊則透過結合深度卷積神經網路及三維細胞級斷層影像，可以即時分析活體細胞核的形貌及統計資訊、標註真皮表皮交界處、可將OCT影像轉換以模擬切片染色影像，協助病理診斷。由該團隊技轉所開發出之台灣原創高解析活體光學影像系統(ApolloVue S100)，具有極高的三維解析度，可即時呈現人體皮膚之完整表皮層及上真皮層結構，並結合智能影像導引快速切換橫切面或縱切面影像模式，已獲美國FDA 二類醫療器材以及台灣TFDA第二級醫療器材認證。相關電腦輔助偵測/診斷系統可以提供即時診斷參考，進而降低人為疏失，協助醫師提供即時且更精準的診斷。
上圖：黃升龍團隊以「高解析活體光學同調斷層掃描儀」獲頒第17屆國家新創獎。
臺大AI中心與轄下31個團隊執行科技部AI創新專案已四年，不論在學術研究、國際合作，與產業應用面都繳出亮眼成績，並致力於連結學研界人才、技術與實際產業應用，促成跨領域、跨單位、跨國際的多元合作。若您考慮導入AI技術、進行數位轉型、開發AI應用，或取得學研AI技術授權、尋求學研團隊合作，可以聯繫臺大AI中心。歡迎到臺大AI中心官網、照護子中心官網，進一步了解團隊的研究成果。
👉詳細請見此連結
【2021臺大AI中心暨轄下計畫成果發表會】
2021/11/25更新
11:30-11:50 |
吳沛遠團隊/臺大電機系 |
11:50-13:30 |
中午休息 |
13:30-13:50 |
廖弘源團隊/中研院資訊所 |
13:50-14:10 |
孫民團隊/清大電機系 |
14:10-14:30 |
陳祝嵩團隊/臺大資工系 |
14:30-14:50 |
王鈺強團隊/臺大電機系 |
14:50-15:00 |
休息時間 |
15:00-15:20 |
洪樂文團隊/清大電機系 |
15:20-15:40 |
方士豪團隊/元智大學電機 |
15:40-16:00 |
陳中和團隊/成大電機系 |
16:00-16:20 |
高榮鴻團隊/陽明交通大電信所 |
16:20-16:40 |
張添烜團隊/陽明交通大學電子所 |
16:40:17:00 |
王奕翔團隊/臺大電機系 |
17:00 |
活動結束/閉幕 |
自107年起科技部補助臺大成立「人工智慧技術暨全幅健康照護聯合研究中心」(以下簡稱臺大AI中心)，目的在於創新人工智慧生態體系、打造國際級AI創新研究中心、達成研發尖端技術、AI運用於醫療及健康照護、推動跨領域交流。
臺大AI中心與轄下31隻計畫團隊共同努力截至目前已執行近四年，國內外各個面向成果皆屢獲佳績，中心將於2021年11月26日(五)辦理「臺大AI中心暨轄下計畫成果發表會」，介紹並展示轄下所有研究團隊四年來的重要技術、研究成果、可能的應用、以及未來發展方向。廣邀產業界朋友參與，進一步協助促成合作，擴大成果的影響效益。
👉歡迎踴躍報名：https://forms.gle/i3RfXTAqj5UKUUKK8(報名已截止)
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科技部長官致詞 |
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9:00-9:20 |
陳信希團隊/臺大資工系 |
自然語言與情緒運算 |
9:20-9:40 |
李祈均團隊/清大電機系 |
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9:40-10:00 |
馬偉雲團隊/中研院資訊所 |
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10:00-10:20 |
蔣旭政團隊/師大大傳所 |
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10:20-10:30 |
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10:30-10:50 |
林守德團隊/臺大資工系 |
機器學習，深度學習與資安隱私 |
10:50-11:10 |
吳尚鴻團隊/清大資工系 |
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11:10-11:30 |
簡仁宗團隊/陽明交通大電機系 |
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11:30-11:50 |
吳沛遠團隊/臺大電機系 |
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11:50-12:10 |
徐宏民團隊/臺大資工系 |
電腦視覺與多媒體 |
12:10-13:10 |
中午休息 |
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13:10-13:30 |
林嘉文團隊/清大電機系 |
電腦視覺與多媒體 |
13:30-13:50 |
廖弘源團隊/中研院資訊所 |
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13:50-14:10 |
孫民團隊/清大電機系 |
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14:30-14:50 |
陳祝嵩團隊/臺大資工系 |
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14:50-15:10 |
王鈺強團隊/臺大電機系 |
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15:10-15:20 |
休息時間 |
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15:20-15:40 |
洪樂文團隊/清大電機系 |
AI晶片，硬體設計與通訊 |
15:40-16:00 |
方士豪團隊/元智大學電機 |
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16:00-16:20 |
陳中和團隊/成大電機系 |
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16:20-16:40 |
高榮鴻團隊/陽明交通大電信所 |
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16:40-17:00 |
張添烜團隊/陽明交通大學電子所 |
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王奕翔團隊/臺大電機系 |
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科技部長官致詞 |
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中心主任及共同主任致詞 |
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09:00-09:20 |
中心介紹 |
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09:20-09:50 |
傅立成團隊/臺大人工智慧與機器人研究中心 |
醫療照護 |
09:50-10:20 |
蔡世仁團隊/臺北榮總精神醫學部 |
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10:20-10:40 |
休息時間 |
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10:40-11:10 |
劉文德團隊/北醫大呼吸治療學系 |
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11:10-11:40 |
賴飛羆團隊/臺大生醫電資所 |
輔助決策 |
11:40-12:10 |
黃建華團隊/臺大醫院急診部 |
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12:10-14:00 |
中午休息 |
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14:00-14:30 |
王偉仲團隊/臺大應數所 |
醫療影像 |
14:30-15:00 |
黃升龍團隊/臺大光電所 |
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15:00-15:30 |
張瑞峰團隊/臺大生醫電資所 |
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15:30-15:50 |
休息時間 |
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15:50-16:20 |
楊進木團隊/陽明交大生科系 |
智慧用藥 |
16:20-16:50 |
李崇僖團隊/北醫大醫療暨生物科技法律所 |
人工智慧與倫理法律 |
16:50 |
活動結束 |
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Titouan Parcollet is an associate professor in computer science at the Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon (LIA), from Avignon University (FR) and a visiting scholar at the Cambridge Machine Learning Systems Lab from the University of Cambridge (UK). Previously, he was a senior research associate at the University of Oxford (UK) within the Oxford Machine Learning Systems group. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Avignon (France) and in partnership with Orkis focusing on quaternion neural networks, automatic speech recognition, and representation learning. His current work involves efficient speech recognition, federated learning and self-supervised learning. He is also currently collaborating with the university of Montréal (Mila, QC, Canada) on the SpeechBrain project.
Mirco Ravanelli is currently a postdoc researcher at Mila (Université de Montréal) working under the supervision of Prof. Yoshua Bengio. His main research interests are deep learning, speech recognition, far-field speech recognition, cooperative learning, and self-supervised learning. He is the author or co-author of more than 50 papers on these research topics. He received his PhD (with cum laude distinction) from the University of Trento in December 2017. Mirco is an active member of the speech and machine learning communities. He is founder and leader of the SpeechBrain project.
Shinji Watanabe is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. (Dr. Eng.) degrees from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He was a research scientist at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, from 2001 to 2011, a visiting scholar in Georgia institute of technology, Atlanta, GA in 2009, and a senior principal research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA USA from 2012 to 2017. Prior to the move to Carnegie Mellon University, he was an associate research professor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA from 2017 to 2020. His research interests include automatic speech recognition, speech enhancement, spoken language understanding, and machine learning for speech and language processing. He has been published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and received several awards, including the best paper award from the IEEE ASRU in 2019. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing. He was/has been a member of several technical committees, including the APSIPA Speech, Language, and Audio Technical Committee (SLA), IEEE Signal Processing Society Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC), and Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP).
Karteek Alahari is a senior researcher (known as chargé de recherche in France, which is equivalent to a tenured associate professor) at Inria. He is based in the Thoth research team at the Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes center. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Inria WILLOW team at the Department of Computer Science in ENS (École Normale Supérieure), after completing his PhD in 2010 in the UK. His current research focuses on addressing the visual understanding problem in the context of large-scale datasets. In particular, he works on learning robust and effective visual representations, when only partially-supervised data is available. This includes frameworks such as incremental learning, weakly-supervised learning, adversarial training, etc. Dr. Alahari’s research has been funded by a Google research award, the French national research agency, and other industrial grants, including Facebook, NaverLabs Europe, Valeo.
Sijia Liu is currently an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science & Engineering Department of Michigan State University. He received the Ph.D. degree (with All-University Doctoral Prize) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, NY, USA, in 2016. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2016-2017, and a Research Staff Member at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in 2018-2020. His research spans the areas of machine learning, optimization, computer vision, signal processing and computational biology, with a focus on developing learning algorithms and theory for scalable and trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI). He received the Best Student Paper Award at the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). His work has been published at top-tier AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AISTATS, and AAAI.
Soheil Feizi is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining UMD, he was a post-doctoral research scholar at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has received the NSF CAREER award in 2020 and the Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship on deep learning foundations in 2019. He is the 2020 recipient of the AWS Machine Learning Research award, and the 2019 recipients of the IBM faculty award as well as the Qualcomm faculty award. He is the recipient of teaching award in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 in the CS department at UMD. His work has received the best paper award of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, over a three-year period of 2017-2019. He received the Ernst Guillemin award for his M.Sc. thesis, as well as the Jacobs Presidential Fellowship and the EECS Great Educators Fellowship at MIT.
I am a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT.
I received my Ph.D. in 2018 from Centrum Wiskune & Informatica and QuSoft, Amsterdam, Netherlands, supervised by Ronald de Wolf. Before that I finished my M.Math in Mathematics from University of Waterloo and Institute of Quantum computing, Canada in 2014, supervised by Michele Mosca.
Shang-Wen (Daniel) Li is an Engineering and Science Manager at Facebook AI. His research focuses on natural language and speech understanding, conversational AI, meta learning, and auto ML. He led a team at AWS AI on building conversation AI technology for call center analytics and chat bot authoring. He also worked at Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri for implementing their conversation assistants. He earned his PhD from MIT CSAIL with topics on natural language understanding and its application to online education. He co-organized the workshop of “Self-Supervised Learning for Speech and Audio Processing” at NeurIPS (2020) and the workshop of “Meta Learning and Its Applications to Natural Language Processing” at ACL (2021).
Thang Vu received his Diploma (2009) and PhD (2014) degrees in computer science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. From 2014 to 2015, he worked at Nuance Communications as a senior research scientist and at Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich as an acting professor in computational linguistics. In 2015, he was appointed assistant professor at University of Stuttgart, Germany. Since 2018, he has been a full professor at the Institute for Natural Language Processing in Stuttgart. His main research interests are natural language processing (esp. speech, natural language understanding and dialog systems) and machine learning (esp. deep learning) for low-resource settings.
Song Han is an assistant professor at MIT’s EECS. He received his PhD degree from Stanford University. His research focuses on efficient deep learning computing. He proposed “deep compression” technique that can reduce neural network size by an order of magnitude without losing accuracy, and the hardware implementation “efficient inference engine” that first exploited pruning and weight sparsity in deep learning accelerators. His team’s work on hardware-aware neural architecture search that bring deep learning to IoT devices was highlighted by MIT News, Wired, Qualcomm News, VentureBeat, IEEE Spectrum, integrated in PyTorch and AutoGluon, and received many low-power computer vision contest awards in flagship AI conferences (CVPR’19, ICCV’19 and NeurIPS’19). Song received Best Paper awards at ICLR’16 and FPGA’17, Amazon Machine Learning Research Award, SONY Faculty Award, Facebook Faculty Award, NVIDIA Academic Partnership Award. Song was named “35 Innovators Under 35” by MIT Technology Review for his contribution on “deep compression” technique that “lets powerful artificial intelligence (AI) programs run more efficiently on lowpower mobile devices.” Song received the NSF CAREER Award for “efficient algorithms and hardware for accelerated machine learning” and the IEEE “AIs 10 to Watch: The Future of AI” award.
Hung-yi Lee received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. From September 2012 to August 2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica. From September 2013 to July 2014, he was a visiting scientist at the Spoken Language Systems Group of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
John Shawe-Taylor is professor of Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College London. He has helped to drive a fundamental rebirth in the field of machine learning, with applications in novel domains including computer vision, document classification, and applications in biology and medicine focussed on brain scan, immunity and proteome analysis. He has published over 250 papers and two books that have together attracted over 80000 citations.
He has also been instrumental in assembling a series of influential European Networks of Excellence. The scientific coordination of these projects has influenced a generation of researchers and promoted the widespread uptake of machine learning in both science and industry that we are currently witnessing.
He was appointed UNESCO Chair of Artificial Intelligence in November 2018 and is the leading trustee of the UK Charity, Knowledge 4 All Foundation, promoting open education and helping to establish a network of AI researchers and practitioners in sub-Saharan Africa. He is the Director of the International Research Center on Artificial Intelligence established under the Auspices of UNESCO in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Been Kim is a staff research scientist at Google Brain. Her research focuses on improving interpretability in machine learning by building interpretability methods for already-trained models or building inherently interpretable models. She gave a talk at the G20 meeting in Argentina in 2019. Her work TCAV received UNESCO Netexplo award, was featured at Google I/O 19′ and in Brian Christian’s book on “The Alignment Problem”. Been has given keynote at ECML 2020, tutorials on interpretability at ICML, University of Toronto, CVPR and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was a co-workshop Chair ICLR 2019, and has been an area chair/senior area chair at conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and AISTATS. She received her PhD. from MIT.
Philipp is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in 2014 from the CS Department at Stanford University and then spent two wonderful years as a PostDoc at UC Berkeley. His research interests lie in Computer Vision, Machine learning and Computer Graphics. He is particularly interested in deep learning, image, video, and scene understanding.
Cho-Jui Hsieh is an assistant professor in UCLA Computer Science Department. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015 (advisor: Inderjit S. Dhillon). His work mainly focuses on improving the efficiency and robustness of machine learning systems and he has contributed to several widely used machine learning packages. He is the recipient of NSF Career Award, Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, and Google Research Scholar Award. His work has been recognized by several best/outstanding paper awards in ICLR, KDD, ICDM, ICPP and SC.
Ming-Wei Chang is currently a Research Scientist at Google Research, working on machine learning and natural language processing problems. He is interested in developing fundamental techniques that can bring new insights to the field and enable new applications. He has published many papers on representation learning, question answering, entity linking and semantic parsing. Among them, BERT, a framework for pre-training deep bidirectional representations from unlabeled text, probably received the most attention. BERT achieved state-of-the-art results for 11 NLP tasks at the time of the publication. Recently he helped co-write the Deep learning for NLP chapter in the fourth edition of the Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. His research has won many awards including 2019 NAACL best paper, 2015 ACL outstanding paper and 2019 ACL best paper candidate.
I received my Ph.D. in 11/2005 working at Ecole des Mines de Paris. Before that I graduated from the ENSAE with a master degree from ENS Cachan. I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, between 11/2005 and 03/2007. Between 04/2007 and 09/2008 I worked in the financial industry. After working at the ORFE department of Princeton University between 02/2009 and 08/2010 as a lecturer, I was at the Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University between 09/2010 and 09/2016 as an associate professor (tenured in 11/2013). I have joined ENSAE in 09/2016. I now work there part-time, since 10/2018 when I have joined the Paris office of Google Brain, as a research scientist.
Arthur Gretton is a Professor with the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, and director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) at UCL. He received degrees in Physics and Systems Engineering from the Australian National University, and a PhD with Microsoft Research and the Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He previously worked at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics, and at the Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
Arthur’s recent research interests in machine learning include the design and training of generative models, both implicit (e.g. GANs) and explicit (exponential family and energy-based models), nonparametric hypothesis testing, survival analysis, causality, and kernel methods.
He has been an associate editor at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence from 2009 to 2013, an Action Editor for JMLR since April 2013, an Area Chair for NeurIPS in 2008 and 2009, a Senior Area Chair for NeurIPS in 2018 and 2021, an Area Chair for ICML in 2011 and 2012, a member of the COLT Program Committee in 2013, and a member of Royal Statistical Society Research Section Committee since January 2020. Arthur was program chair for AISTATS in 2016 (with Christian Robert), tutorials chair for ICML 2018 (with Ruslan Salakhutdinov), workshops chair for ICML 2019 (with Honglak Lee), program chair for the Dali workshop in 2019 (with Krikamol Muandet and Shakir Mohammed), and co-organsier of the Machine Learning Summer School 2019 in London (with Marc Deisenroth).
Prof. Hsuan-Tien Lin received a B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2001, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from California Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University as an assistant professor in 2008, and was promoted to an associate professor in 2012, and has been a professor since August 2017. Between 2016 and 2019, he worked as the Chief Data Scientist of Appier, a startup company that specializes in making AI easier in various domains, such as digital marketing and business intelligence. Currently, he keeps growing with Appier as its Chief Data Science Consultant.
From the university, Prof. Lin received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2011, the Outstanding Mentoring Award in 2013, and the Outstanding Teaching Award in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He co-authored the introductory machine learning textbook Learning from Data and offered two popular Mandarin-teaching MOOCs Machine Learning Foundations and Machine Learning Techniques based on the textbook. His research interests include mathematical foundations of machine learning, studies on new learning problems, and improvements on learning algorithms. He received the 2012 K.-T. Li Young Researcher Award from the ACM Taipei Chapter, the 2013 D.-Y. Wu Memorial Award from National Science Council of Taiwan, and the 2017 Creative Young Scholar Award from Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship in Taiwan. He co-led the teams that won the third place of KDDCup 2009 slow track, the champion of KDDCup 2010, the double-champion of the two tracks in KDDCup 2011, the champion of track 2 in KDDCup 2012, and the double-champion of the two tracks in KDDCup 2013. He served as the Secretary General of Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence between 2013 and 2014.
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Developing a World-Class AI Facial Recognition Solution – CyberLink FaceMe®
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CyberLink’s FaceMe® is a world-leading AI facial recognition solution. In this session, Davie Lee (R&D Vice President of CyberLink) will share the fundamentals of developing facial recognition solutions, such as the interface pipeline, and will share the key industrial use cases and trends of AI facial recognition.
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Transform the Beauty Industry through AI + AR: Perfect Corp’s Innovative Vision into the Digital Era
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Perfect Corp. is the world’s leading beauty tech solutions provider transforming the industry by marrying the highest level of augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology for a re-imagined consumer shopping experience.
Johnny Tseng (CTO of Perfect Corp.) will share the AI/AR beauty tech solutions and the roadmap with Perfect Corp.’s advance AI technology.
Dr. Shou-De Lin is Appier’s Chief Machine Learning (ML) Scientist since February 2020 with 20+ years of experience in AI,machine learning, data mining and natural language processing. Prior to joining Appier, he served as a full-time professor at the National Taiwan University (NTU) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. Dr. Lin is the recipient of several prestigious research awards and brings a mix of both academic and industry expertise to Appier. He has advised more than 50 global companies in the research and application of AI, winning awards from Microsoft, Google and IBM for his work. He led or co-led the NTU team to win 7 ACM KDD Cup championships. He has over 100 publications in top-tier journals and conferences, winning various dissertation awards. After joining Appier, Dr. Lin led the AiDeal team to win the Best Overall AI-based Analytics Solution in the 2020 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Awards. Dr. Lin holds a BS-EE degree t from NTU and an MS-EECS degree from the University of Michigan. He also holds an MS degree in Computational Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, both from the University of Southern California.
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Machine Learning as a Services: Challenges and Opportunities
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Businesses today are dealing with huge amounts of data and the volume is growing faster than ever. At the same time, the competitive landscape is changing rapidly and it’s critical for commercial organizations to make decisions fast. Business success comes from making quick, accurate decisions using the best possible information.
Machine learning (ML) is a vital technology for companies seeking a competitive advantage, as it can process large volumes of data fast that can help businesses more effectively make recommendations to customers, hone manufacturing processes or anticipate changes to a market, for example.
Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) is defined in a business context as companies designing and implementing ML models that will provide a continuous and consistent service to customers. This is critical in areas where customer needs and behaviours change rapidly. For example, from 2020, people have changed how they shop, work and socialize as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic and businesses have had to shift how they service their customers to meet their needs.
This means that the technology they are using to gather and process data also needs to be flexible and adaptable to new data inputs, allowing businesses to move fast and make the best decisions.
One current challenge of taking ML models to MLaaS has to do with how we currently build ML models and how we teach future ML talent to do it. Most research and development of ML models focuses on building individual models that use a set of training data (with pre-assigned features and labels) to deliver the best performance in predicting the labels of another set of data (normally we call it testing data). However, if we’re looking at real-world businesses trying to meet the ever-evolving needs of real-life customers, the boundary between training and testing data becomes less clear. The testing or prediction data for today can be exploited as the training data to create a better model in the future.
Consequently, the data used for training a model will no doubt be imperfect for several reasons. Besides the fact that real-world data sources can be incomplete or unstructured (such as open answer customer questionnaires), they can come from a biased collection process. For instance, the data to be used for training a recommendation model are normally collected from the feedbacks of another recommender system currently serving online. Thus, the data collected are biased by the online serving model.
Additionally, sometimes the true outcome we really care about is usually the hardest to evaluate. Let’s take digital marketing for ecommerce as an example. The most
Dr. Shou-De Lin is Appier’s Chief Machine Learning (ML) Scientist since February 2020 with 20+ years of experience in AI,machine learning, data mining and natural language processing. Prior to joining Appier, he served as a full-time professor at the National Taiwan University (NTU) Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. Dr. Lin is the recipient of several prestigious research awards and brings a mix of both academic and industry expertise to Appier. He has advised more than 50 global companies in the research and application of AI, winning awards from Microsoft, Google and IBM for his work. He led or co-led the NTU team to win 7 ACM KDD Cup championships. He has over 100 publications in top-tier journals and conferences, winning various dissertation awards. After joining Appier, Dr. Lin led the AiDeal team to win the Best Overall AI-based Analytics Solution in the 2020 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Awards. Dr. Lin holds a BS-EE degree t from NTU and an MS-EECS degree from the University of Michigan. He also holds an MS degree in Computational Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, both from the University of Southern California.
As the Managing Director, Jason Ma oversees Google Taiwan’s site growth, business management and development, as well as leads multiple R&D projects across the board. Before taking this leadership role at Google Taiwan, Jason was a Platform Technology and Cloud Computing expert in the Platform & Ecosystem business group at Google Mountain View, CA. In his 10 years with Google, Jason has successfully led strategic partnerships with global hardware and software manufacturers and major chip providers to drive various innovations in cloud technology. These efforts have not only contributed to a substantial increase in Chromebook’s share in global education, consumer and enterprise markets, but have also attracted global talents to join Google and its partners in furthering the development of hardware and software technology solutions/services.
Prior to joining Google, Jason served on the Office group at Microsoft Redmond, WA. He represented the company in a project, involving Merck, Dell, Boeing, and the United States Department of Defense, to achieve solutions in unified communications and integrated voice technology. In 2007, Jason was appointed Director of the Microsoft Technology Center in Taiwan. During which time, Jason led the Microsoft Taiwan technology team and worked with Intel and HP to establish a Solution Center in Taiwan to promote Microsoft public cloud, data center, and private cloud technologies, connecting Taiwan’s cloud computing industry with the global market and supply chain.
Before joining Microsoft, Jason was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Soma.com. At Soma.com, Jason led the team in designing and launching e-commerce services, and partnered with Merck and WebMD on health consultation services and over the counter/prescription drugs/services. Soma.com was in turn acquired by CVS, the second largest pharmacy chain in the United States, forming CVS.com, where Jason served as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and provided solutions for digital integration.
Jason graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, subsequent which he moved to the United States to further his graduate studies. In 1993, Jason obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, with a focus in the integration and innovation of power systems and AI Expert Systems. In 1997, Jason joined the National Sun Yat-sen University as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. To date, Jason has published 22 research papers and co-authored 2 books. Due to his outstanding performance, Jason was nominated and listed in Who’s Who in the World in 1998.
Kai-Wei Chang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests include designing robust machine learning methods for large and complex data and building fair, reliable, and accountable language processing technologies for social good applications. Dr. Chang has published broadly in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His research has been covered by news media such as Wires, NPR, and MIT Tech Review. His awards include the Sloan Research Fellowship (2021),
the EMNLP Best Long Paper Award (2017), the KDD Best Paper Award (2010), and the Okawa Research Grant Award (2018). Dr. Chang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015 and was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in 2016.
Additional information is available at http://kwchang.net
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Dr. Pin-Yu Chen is a research staff member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. He is also the chief scientist of RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration and PI of ongoing MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab projects. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 2016. Dr. Chen’s recent research focuses on adversarial machine learning and robustness of neural networks. His long-term research vision is building trustworthy machine learning systems. At IBM Research, he received the honor of IBM Master Inventor and several research accomplishment awards. His research works contribute to IBM open-source libraries including Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART 360) and AI Explainability 360 (AIX 360). He has published more than 40 papers related to trustworthy machine learning at major AI and machine learning conferences, given tutorials at IJCAI’21, CVPR(’20,’21), ECCV’20, ICASSP’20, KDD’19, and Big Data’18, and organized several workshops for adversarial machine learning. He received a NeurIPS 2017 Best Reviewer Award, and was also the recipient of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 GOLD Best Paper Award.
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Dr. Pin-Yu Chen is currently a research staff member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. He is also the chief scientist of RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration and PI of ongoing MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab projects. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science and M.A. degree in Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 2016. He received his M.S. degree in communication engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2011 and B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (undergraduate honors program) from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2009.
Dr. Chen’s recent research focuses on adversarial machine learning and robustness of neural networks. His long-term research vision is building trustworthy machine learning systems. He has published more than 40 papers related to trustworthy machine learning at major AI and machine learning conferences, given tutorials at IJCAI’21, CVPR(’20,’21), ECCV’20, ICASSP’20, KDD’19, and Big Data’18, and organized several workshops for adversarial machine learning. His research interest also includes graph and network data analytics and their applications to data mining, machine learning, signal processing, and cyber security. He was the recipient of the Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He received a NeurIPS 2017 Best Reviewer Award, and was also the recipient of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 GOLD Best Paper Award. Dr. Chen is currently on the editorial board of PLOS ONE.
At IBM Research, Dr. Chen has co-invented more than 30 U.S. patents and received the honor of IBM Master Inventor. In 2021, he received an IBM Corporate Technical Award. In 2020, he received an IBM Research special division award for research related to COVID-19. In 2019, he received two Outstanding Research Accomplishments on research in adversarial robustness and trusted AI, and one Research Accomplishment on research in graph learning and analysis.
Chun-Yi Lee is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, and is the supervisor of Elsa Lab. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, in 2009 and 2013, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He joined NTHU as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science since 2015. Before joining NTHU, he was a senior engineer at Oracle America, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA from 2012 to 2015.
Prof. Lee’s research focuses on deep reinforcement learning (DRL), intelligent robotics, computer vision (CV), and parallel computing systems. He has contributed to the discovery and development of key deep learning methodologies for intelligent robotics, such as virtual-to-real training and transferring techniques for robotic policies, real-time acceleration techniques for performing semantic image segmentation, efficient and effective exploration approaches for DRL agents, as well as autonomous navigation strategies. He has published a number of research papers on major artificial intelligence (AI) conferences including NeurIPS, CVPR, IJCAI, AAMAS, ICLR, ICML, ECCV, CoRL,, ICRA IROS, GTC, and more. He has also published several research papers at IEEE Transaction on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI) and Design Automation Conference (DAC). He founded Elsa Lab at National Tsing Hua University in 2015, and have led the members from Elsa Lab to win several prestigious awards from a number of worldwide robotics and AI challenges, such as the first place at NVIDIA Embedded Intelligent Robotics Challenge in 2016, the first place of the world at NVIDIA Jetson Robotics Challenge in 2018, the second place from the Person-In-Context (PIC) Challenge at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in 2018, and the second place of the world from NVIDIA AI at the Edge Challenge in 2020. Prof. Lee is the recipient of the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in 2020, which is the most prestigious award in recognition of outstanding achievements in intelligence computing for young researchers.
He has also received several outstanding research awards, distinguished teaching awards, and contribution awards from multiple institutions, such as NVIDIA Deep Learning institute (DLI) The Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (FAOS), The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE), Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA), and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). In addition, he has served as the committee members and reviewers at many international and domestic conferences. His researches are especially impactful for autonomous systems, decision making systems, game engines, and vision-AI based robotic applications.
Prof. Lee is a member of IEEE and ACM. He has served as session chairs and technical program committee several times at ASP-DAC, NoCs, and ISVLSI. He has also served as the paper reviewer of NeurIPS, AAAI, IROS, ICCV, IEEE TPAMI, TVLSI, IEEE TCAD, IEEE ISSCC, and IEEE ASP-DAC. He has been the main organizer of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Augmented Intelligence and Interaction (AII) Workshops from 2019-2021. He was the co-director of MOST Office for International AI Research Collaboration from 2018-2020.
Henry Kautz is serving as Division Director for Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) at the National Science Foundation where he leads the National AI Research Institutes program. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and was the founding director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science at the University of Rochester. He has been a researcher at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and a full professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 2010, he was elected President of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and in 2016 was elected Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Section on Information, Computing, and Communication. His interdisciplinary research includes practical algorithms for solving worst-case intractable problems in logical and probabilistic reasoning; models for inferring human behavior from sensor data; pervasive healthcare applications of AI; and social media analytics. In 1989 he received the IJCAI Computers & Thought Award, which recognizes outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence, and 30 years later received the 2018 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award for career contributions that have breadth within computer science and that bridge computer science and other disciplines. At the 2020 AAAI Conference he received both the Distinguished Service Award and the Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award.
Lecture Abstract
Each AI summer, times of enthusiasm for the potential of artificial intelligence, has led to enduring scientific insights. Today’s third summer is different because it might not be followed by a winter, and it enables powerful applications for good and bad. The next steps in AI research are tighter symbolic-neuro integration
Lecture Outline
Jason Lee received his Ph.D. at Stanford University, advised by Trevor Hastie and Jonathan Taylor, in 2015. Before joining Princeton, he was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley with Michael I. Jordan. His research interests are in machine learning, optimization, and statistics. Lately, he has worked on the foundations of deep learning, non-convex optimization, and reinforcement learning.
Csaba Szepesvari is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, the team-lead for the “Foundations” team at DeepMind and a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He earned his PhD in 1999 from Jozsef Attila University, in Szeged, Hungary. In addition to publishing at journals and conferences, he has (co-)authored three books. Currently, he serves as the action editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and Machine Learning and as an associate editor of the Mathematics of Operations Research journal, while also regularly serves in various senior positions on program committees of various machine learning and AI conferences. Dr. Szepesvari’s main interest is to develop new, principled, learning-based approaches to artificial intelligence (AI), as well as to study the limits of such approaches. He is the co-inventor of UCT, a Monte-Carlo tree search algorithm, which inspired much work in AI.
Dr. Yuh-Jye Lee received the PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. Now, he is a professor of Department of Applied Mathematics at National Chiao-Tung University. He also serves as a SIG Chair at the NTU IoX Center. His research is primarily rooted in optimization theory and spans a range of areas including network and information security, machine learning, data mining, big data, numerical optimization and operations research. During the last decade, Dr. Lee has developed many learning algorithms in supervised learning, semi-supervised learning and unsupervised learning as well as linear/nonlinear dimension reduction. His recent major research is applying machine learning to information security problems such as network intrusion detection, anomaly detection, malicious URLs detection and legitimate user identification. Currently, he focus on online learning algorithms for dealing with large scale datasets, stream data mining and behavior based anomaly detection for the needs of big data and IoT security problems.