HCCAI 2020, TransAI 2020, ai4i 2020
Joint Keynotes
(HCCAI 2020)
Edward Chang
HTC Research & Healthcare (DeepQ)
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Bio: Edward Chang has acted as the President of AI Research and Healthcare (DeepQ) at HTC since 2012. He also currently serves as an adjunct professor at Stanford University. His most recent notable work is co-leading the DeepQ project to win the XPRIZE medical IoT contest in 2017 with a 1M USD prize. Prior to his current posts, Ed was a director of Google Research from 2006 to 2012, leading research and development in areas including scalable machine learning, indoor localization, and Google Q&A. His contributions in data-driven machine learning (US patents 8798375 and 9547914) and his ImageNet sponsorship helped fuel the success of AlexNet and the recent resurgence of AI. His developed open-source codes in parallel SVMs, parallel LDA, parallel spectral clustering, and parallel frequent itemset mining (adopted by Berkeley Spark) have been collectively downloaded over 30,000 times. Prior to Google, Ed was a full professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined UCSB in 1999 after receiving his PhD from Stanford University. Ed is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to scalable machine learning.
(TransAI 2020)
Chris Dede
Harvard University
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Bio: Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. In 2007, he was honored by Harvard University as an outstanding teacher, and in 2011 he was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. From 2014-2015, he was a Visiting Expert at the National Science Foundation Directorate of Education and Human Resources. His edited books include: Scaling Up Success: Lessons Learned from Technology-based Educational Improvement, Digital Teaching Platforms: Customizing Classroom Learning for Each Student, Teacher Learning in the Digital Age: Online Professional Development in STEM Education, Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Realities in Education, and Education at Scale: Engineering Online Learning and Teaching.
(ai4i 2020)
Sina Fakhraee
Microsoft, USA
Title: Doing AI on the Cloud: Challenges and benefits of moving AI solution to the cloud
Abstract: A typical end-to-end machine learning solution involves data preparation (e.g. data ingestion, data pre-processing, feature engineering, etc.), building models (e.g. set of experiments to train and validate models using different algorithms and relevant hyperparameters) and lastly deploying and monitoring trained models. A few main challenges that many data scientists face are how to streamline this process, how to keep track of the model building experiments for reproducibility and collaboration, how to repeat this process (e.g. retrain model with new dataset, redeploy and monitor new models) which is knowns as MLOps and more importantly for production ML systems how to do all this at scale.
In this talk I will give an overview of Azure Machine Learning (AML) and will discuss how to address the above challenges using AML. In the context of a demo I will show how AML can enable the data scientists to focus on building high performing computer vision models which can be deployed either on edge devices or consumed in real time.
Bio: Sina Fakhraee has recently joined Microsoft as a Data & AI cloud solution architect. In this role Sina helps his customers in defining, designing and implementing AI/ML solutions at scale on Azure Cloud Platform. These solutions include applying the best practices for data ingestion, feature engineering, model training all the way to model deployment for real time or batch consumption. In some cases, customers may already have this pipeline on-premises and want to move to the cloud which Sina helps in migrating their analytics solutions to the cloud. Prior to Microsoft, Sina worked at Ford Motor Company for 9 years holding a variety of technical lead positions such as senior analytics solution architect, senior machine learning engineer and the most recent one as an AI/ML product owner where he led a team of data scientists and software engineers to build and shape the vision of Ford's AI/ML (Data Science) Platform. Sina has taught different computer sciences grad and undergrad courses at Wayne State University such as Data Mining and Data Structures and Algorithm. Sina holds a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Wayne State University and BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Michigan State University.