September 22, 2020 -
September 23, 2020
Microsoft Research AI Breakthroughs 2020
Location: Virtual/Online
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
| Time (PDT) | Session | Speaker | |
| 9:00 AM-9:15 AM | Welcome |   |
Sean Andrist |
| 9:15 AM-9:45 AM | Fireside Chat | Video |  |
Johannes Gehrke, Technical Fellow & Managing Director, Research at Redmond |
| 9:45 AM-10:00 AM | Break | ||
| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM | 20 minute research talks + Q&A panel | Video |     |
Debadeepta Dey: Efficient Forward Neural Architecture Search
Subho Mukherjee: Resource-efficient Learning for Neural Language Understanding at Scale 5 minute break Jina Suh: Population-Scale Study of Human Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis and Implications 5 minute break Q&A Panel |
| 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Break | ||
| 1:00 PM-1:30 PM | Fireside Chat | Video |  |
Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow & Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England, New York City and Montreal |
| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM | Video poster session by students | ||
| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM | Fun Networking Event |
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
| Time (PDT) | Session | ||
| 9:00 AM-9:05 AM | Welcome | Sean and Daniel | |
| 9:05 AM-9:20 AM | Video Message by Kevin Scott |  |
Kevin Scott, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Technology & Research |
| 9:20 AM-9:30 AM | Transition to groups | ||
| 9:30 AM-12:00 PM | Meeting with your nominating team – each student presents for ~5 minutes | ||
| 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Break | ||
| 1:00 PM-1:30 PM | Opportunity to meet with other teams | ||
| 1:30 PM-2:00 PM | Opportunity to meet with other teams | ||
| 2:00 PM-3:30 PM | 20 minute research talks + Q&A panel + event wrap-up | Video |    |
Shamsi Iqbal: Micro-productivity: Redefining Productivity to Adapt to a Changing Landscape of Work
Alex Polozov: Neuro-Symbolic AI and Program Synthesis Robert Sim: Privacy Preservation in Natural Language Applications 5 minute break Q&A Panel Final words and closing (Sean and Daniel) |