Thursday, October 30, 2014
Time | Session | Speaker | Location |
8:45–8:50 | Welcome Speech | Jining Chen, President, Tsinghua University | Lecture Hall, Main Building, Tsinghua University |
8:50–9:00 |
Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Chairman, Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group | Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia |
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9:00–9:10 |
Group Photo |
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9:10–9:50 |
Computational Thinking |
Jeannette Wing, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research |
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9:50–10:30 |
The Demand for New |
Kap-Young Jeong, President, Yonsei University | |
10:30-10:50 |
Break |
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10:50–12:00 | Panel Discussion Fostering Interdisciplinary Talents | video |
Moderator: Tim Pan, University Relations Director, Microsoft Research Asia
Panelists:
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12:00–13:00 | Lunch Break | ||
13:00–13:40 |
Computer Vision: New |
Takeo Kanade, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University |
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13:40–14:20 |
Hints and Principles for Computer System Design |
Butler W. Lampson, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research | |
14:20–15:00 |
Computational Ideas and |
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Professor, UC Berkeley |
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15:00–15:30 |
Break |
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15:30–16:10 |
Interdisciplinarity: A View |
Andrew Yao, Professor, Tsinghua University | |
16:10–17:10 | Panel Discussion
Interdisciplinarity: The |
Moderator: Thomas Moscibroda, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia | Chair Professor, Tsinghua University Panelists:
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17:10–17:30 |
Microsoft Research |
P. Anandan, Distinguished Scientist, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Outreach |
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17:30–18:30 |
Transit to Hotel |
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18:30–20:30 | Banquet | Ballroom, Beijing Beichen InterContinental Hotel |
Friday, October 31, 2014
Time | Session | Speaker | Location |
8:45–12:30 | Urban Science in the Cloud | Chair: Winnie Cui, Microsoft Research Asia | Conference Room 1409, Tower 1, Microsoft Beijing West Campus |
8:45–8:50 |
Opening |
Winnie Cui, Microsoft Research Asia |
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8:50–9:20 |
Urban Computing: Using Big Data |
Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia |
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9:20–9:45 |
Real-Time Urban Travel Time |
Hwasoo Yeo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
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9:45–10:10 |
Enabling Causality-Based Air Quality Monitoring with Urban Big Data |
Victor Li, The University of Hong Kong |
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10:10–10:20 |
Q&A |
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10:20–10:30 |
Break |
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10:30–10:55 |
To Feel the City’s Pulse with Mobile |
Yanmin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
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10:55–11:20 |
Environmental Modeling and |
Takeshi Oishi, The University Of Tokyo |
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11:20–11:45 |
Build Smart Campus Based on Human Behavioral Data |
Guangzhong Sun, University of Science and Technology of China |
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11:45–12:15 |
Deploying Connected Devices for Research |
Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Research |
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12:15–12:30 |
Q&A |
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8:45–12:30 |
Computing in Science |
Chair: Miran Lee, Microsoft Research Asia |
Conference Room 1103, |
8:45–8:50 |
Opening |
Miran Lee, Microsoft Research Asia |
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8:50–9:20 |
Biodiversity Monitoring Based on Cloud Environment and Citizen Science |
Zheping Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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9:20–9:50 |
Visual Analysis of Topic Coopetition |
Tai-Quan Peng, Nanyang Technological University |
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9:50–10:20 |
Collaborative Exercitation of |
Huayi Wu, Wuhan University |
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10:20–10:30 |
Break |
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10:30–11:00 |
DigSee: Text Mining for Identifying |
Hyunju Lee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology |
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11:00–11:30 |
Social Media Mining with Machine |
Jun Zhu, Tsinghua University |
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11:30–12:30 |
The Power of Azure Machine Learning |
Junsheng Hao, Shanghai Yungoal Info Tech Co., Ltd. |
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8:45–12:30 |
New Age of Interaction: |
Chair: Noboru Kuno, Microsoft Research Asia |
MPR, |
8:45–8:50 |
Opening |
Noboru Kuno, Microsoft Research Asia |
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8:50–9:20 |
Visual-Haptic Interactive Telepresence |
Jeha Ryu, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Sangyoun Lee, Yonsei University |
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9:20–9:50 |
Whole-Body Haptic Interaction |
Hiroyuki Kajimoto, University of Electro-Communications |
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9:50–10:20 |
Using Kinect to Study the Role of Hand Gestures During Conversations |
Hao-Chuan Wang, National Tsing Hua University |
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10:20–10:30 |
Break |
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10:30–11:00 | Building Communication Bridges for Chinese Minority Ethnic Languages: An Efficient Translation Framework Based on Microsoft Translator Hub |
Conghui Zhu, Harbin Institute of Technology | |
11:00–11:30 |
Speaker Support: Activity-Based Tools |
Darren Edge, Microsoft Research Asia |
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11:30–12:00 |
Office Mix: Online Lessons Made Simple |
Kangping Liu, Microsoft Research Asia |
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12:00–12:30 |
The Software and Data Challenges of Games |
Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research |
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12:30–14:00 | Lunch and DemoFest | Reception Area Tower 1, Microsoft Beijing West Campus |
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14:00–16:00 |
Microsoft Research Asia Open House Have you ever wondered what goes on inside Microsoft Research Asia? We sincerely invite all Asia Faculty Summit guests to Microsoft Research Asia Open House events. Events will be organized by research areas with talks and demos. |
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Multimedia and User Interface |
Chair: Baining Guo, Microsoft Research Asia |
MPR, |
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14:00–14:10 |
Welcome and Overview |
Baining Guo, Microsoft Research Asia |
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14:10–14:30 |
Virtualize Everything |
Shipeng Li, Microsoft Research Asia |
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14:30–14:50 |
Embracing Cloud Media |
Wenjun Zeng, Microsoft Research Asia |
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14:50–15:10 |
Recent Graphics Research in Microsoft |
Xin Tong, Microsoft Research Asia |
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15:10–15:30 |
Toward Human-Level Performance on |
Jian Sun, Microsoft Research Asia |
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15:30–15:50 |
A Glimpse of Several Multimodal |
Qiang Huo, Microsoft Research Asia |
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15:50–16:10 |
Haptics at the Fingertips |
Hong Tan, Microsoft Research Asia |
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Machine Learning, Knowledge |
Chair: Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia |
Conference Room 1103, |
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14:00–14:20 |
Welcome and Overview |
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia |
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14:20–14:35 |
Deep Information Extraction and Entity Extraction |
Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research Asia |
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14:35–14:50 |
Learning Word Embedding from Big |
Bin Gao, Microsoft Research Asia |
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14:50–15:05 |
Knowledge Embedding |
Jianwen Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia |
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15:05–15:20 |
Graph Computation |
Bin Shao, Microsoft Research Asia |
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15:20–15:40 |
Natural Language Computing |
Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia |
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15:40–15:55 |
Q&A |
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Systems and IOT |
Chair: Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Asia |
Conference Room 1409, |
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14:00–14:05 |
Welcome and Overview |
Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Asia |
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14:05–14:30 |
Incentive Networks |
Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research Asia |
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14:30–14:55 |
Mobile App Development: Contextual |
Mike Liang, Microsoft Research Asia |
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14:55–15:20 |
Cloud Scheduling: Apollo |
Ming Wu, Microsoft Research Asia |
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15:20–15:45 |
Software Analytics: DriverMine |
Shi Han, Microsoft Research Asia |
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15:45–16:00 |
Q&A |