(Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, New England)
Bio: Dr. Syrgkanis is the Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, New England, where he is also co-leading the project on Automated Learning and Intelligence for Causation and Economics (ALICE). His research lies at the intersection of theoretical computer science, machine learning and economics/econometrics. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University, where he had the privilege to be advised by Eva Tardos and then spent two years as a postdoc researcher at Microsoft Research, NYC, as part of the Algorithmic Economics and the Machine Learning groups. He obtained my diploma in EECS at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
(Research Scientist and Manager at Google Cloud AI)
Bio: Sercan Arik is currently working as a Research Scientist and Manager at Google Cloud AI. His current work is motivated by the mission of democratizing AI and bringing it to the most impactful use cases, from Healthcare, Finance, Retail, Media, Education, Communications and many other industries. Towards this goal, he focuses on how to make AI more high-performance for the most-demanded data types, interpretable, trustable, data-efficient, robust and reliable. He led research projects that were launched as major Google Cloud products and yielded significant business impact, such as TabNet and Covid-19 forecasting. Before joining Google, he was a Research Scientist at Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab. At Baidu, he focused on deep learning research, particularly for applications in human-technology interfaces. He co-developed deep learning-based state-of-the-art speech synthesis, keyword spotting, voice cloning, and neural architecture search systems. He completed his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He co-authored more than 50 journal and conference publications.
Title For Talk: Explainable Deep Learning for Structured Data
Abstract: In this talk, we go over our 3 projects developed to push the limits of deep learning for structured data: TabNet, TFT, and DVRL.
Yu (Hugo) Chen
(Research Scientist, Facebook Meta AI)
Bio: Yu (Hugo) Chen is a Research Scientist at Meta AI. He got his PhD degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning (Deep Learning) and Natural Language Processing, with a particular emphasis on the fast-growing field of Graph Neural Networks and their applications in various domains. His work has been published at top-ranked conferences including but not limited to NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, NAACL, KDD, WSDM, TheWebConf, ISWC, and AMIA. He was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award of AAAI DLGMA’20. He was one of the book chapter contributors of the book “Graph Neural Networks: Foundations, Frontiers, and Applications”. He delivered a series of DLG4NLP tutorials at NAACL’21, SIGIR’21, KDD’21, IJCAI’21, AAAI’22 and TheWebConf’22. His work has been covered in popular technology and marketing publications including World Economic Forum, TechXplore, TechCrunch, Ad Age and Adweek. He is a co-inventor of 4 US patents.
Title For Talk: Graph Structure Learning for Graph Neural Networks
Abstract: Due to the excellent expressive power of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on modeling graph-structure data, GNNs have achieved great success in various applications such as Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, recommender systems and drug discovery. However, the great success of GNNs relies on the quality and availability of graph-structured data which can either be noisy or unavailable. The problem of graph structure learning aims to discover useful graph structures from data, which can help solve the above issue.
In this talk, I will provide a comprehensive introduction of graph structure learning through the lens of both traditional machine learning and GNNs. Specifically, I will show how this problem has been tackled from different perspectives, for different purposes, via different techniques, as well as its great potential when combined with GNNs. I will cover recent progress in graph structure learning for GNNs and highlight some promising future directions in this research area.
Bio: Chris was co-founder of Planet Labs, a DCVC company providing unprecedented daily, global mapping of our changing planet from space. As the company’s CTO for 5 years, he took the company from the drawing board to having launched more satellites into space than any other company in history, completely transforming the space industry along the way.
Chris was previously a Space Mission Architect at NASA Ames Research Center. After working on a number of traditional spacecraft programs at NASA, Chris co-created Phonesat, a spacecraft built solely out of a regular smartphone. While at NASA, Chris also established Singularity University, a school for studying the consequences of accelerating technological development. Initially fulfilling the role of Interim Director, Chris helped raise over $2.5 million to establish the university, assembled the faculty, and served as co-chair for the University’s Department of Space and Sciences. Chris received his Ph.D. in Physics (with honors) and BSc. in Physics and Mathematics, both from the University of Sydney.
Title of Talk: Lessons from the transformation of Space Exploration
Abstract: Space has historically been the domain of large government programs, but over the past two decades new technologies have driven the creation of a thriving commercial space sector. New generations of satellite operators can do more in space than Super Power nations of the past. In this talk Dr Boshuizen will examine lessons from his first hand experience developing these spacecraft, and share exciting news about recent developments in human spaceflight, including his recent trip to space with Star Trek actor William Shatner.
Full Paper Submission: | 7th May 2022 |
Acceptance Notification: | 19th May 2022 |
Final Paper Submission: | 28th May 2022 |
Early Bird Registration: | 27th May 2022 |
Presentation Submission: | 29th May 2022 |
Conference: | 6 – 9 June 2022 |
IEEE AIIoT 2021
• Best Paper Award will be given for each track