Vietnamese AI community awaits world-class speakers

From December 5-6, 2023, AI Day 2023 - the most prestigious event in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Vietnam, co-organized by VinAI and New Turing Institute, will take place at The Global City (HCMC).

With the theme “AI Redesigning Reality”, the technology community will directly meet and exchange with global AI masters.

Professor Martial Hebert - "Giant" in the field of Robotics and Computer Vision

Professor Hebert is currently the Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU, USA). This school is always at the top of the world rankings in Artificial Intelligence by US News & World Report.

Previously, he was the Director of CMU's Robotics Institute, leading more than 800 members including professors, researchers, students, and staff and contributing to the Institute's operating budget reaching its highest level ever.

Professor Hebert possesses a huge research "fortune" such as: Creating the first Master's program in Computer Vision in the United States; Building algorithms to process 3D data from distance sensors for obstacle detection, environmental modeling and object recognition applied to the project of developing self-driving cars (the predecessor of today's self-driving cars);

Leads major research programs in the field of autonomous systems, including autonomous ground and airborne robots; Researches and develops technologies that help older adults and people with disabilities live more independently...

His research has been very influential, with more than 60,000 citations. His H-index, an indicator that measures the influence and contribution of a scientist, is 121. To put that in perspective, the average H-index of scientists elected to the US National Academy of Sciences is 45.

At AI Day 2023, Professor Hebert will share fresh insights on the key challenges and solutions in deploying AI systems in the real world , drawing on the latest research from seven departments in the CMU School of Computer Science.

Professor Simon Lucey - “Pioneer” in applying mathematical modeling as the foundation for computer vision perception research

Professor Simon Lucey is Director of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) at the University of Adelaide, which is also the largest machine learning research institute in Australia.

From 2009 to 2014, he held key positions in many organizations, typically as a professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU, USA), participating in research and development of self-driving cars at ArgoAI company.

In terms of academics, Professor Lucey has published over 300 papers, which have received over 14,600 citations. His main research interests are in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Robotics. He has also applied for 11 patents in Computer Vision. This is an extremely impressive achievement and a testament to the usefulness of his research.

Participating in AI Day 2023 this time, Professor Lucey will present Neural Priors, a groundbreaking concept and direction that helps AI models memorize and integrate existing knowledge to help predict and make better decisions.

Professor Anton van den Hengel - "Monument" in the field of Machine Learning

Professor Anton van den Hengel holds a number of important positions in the Australian academic community. He currently directs the Centre for Reinforcement Reasoning at the Australian Machine Learning Institute (University of Adelaide) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia.

Professor Anton van den Hengel has more than 400 research papers and an H-Index of 75. He researches many important topics and is trusted by multinational science and technology funds such as Google and Facebook to provide financial support of up to 60 million dollars.

During his career, Professor Hengel has won many prestigious awards such as the 2021 Australian AI Service Award, the Pearcey Foundation Entrepreneurship Award, the Outstanding Scientific Research Award for Research Collaboration, and the 2010 CVPR Conference Outstanding Research Award.

He also runs 5 companies, holds 8 patents and a medical technology certified by the US FDA.

At AI Day 2023, Professor Anton van den Hengel will speak about Continuous Learning, an algorithm that helps computers continuously learn to cope with the world's constant changes.

This talk will present some recent advances in Continuous Learning, including the use of AI models to proactively predict possible changes and generate training data to respond to those changes.

Professor Christopher Manning - Famous researcher at Stanford

Professor Chris Manning is currently the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) and Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).

His research focuses on deep learning and natural language processing, with the main goal of helping computers have human-like sensitivity to language, be able to understand, process, and generate content intelligently.

He is also co-author of the leading textbook on “Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing” (1999) and “Introduction to Information Retrieval” (2008).

His most notable achievements include winning the best paper award at many leading conferences such as ACL, Coling, EMNLP, and CHI. In addition, his online sharing session on Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning at CS224N received hundreds of thousands of viewers.

Professor Manning's talk promises to bring new directions and future advances in the field of large language models (LLMs) to the research community at AI Day 2023.

Associate Professor, Dr. Angela Yao - High-achieving researcher at National University of Singapore

Although his teaching career has not been long, Dr. Yao has achieved admirable results. Associate Professor Yao is currently in charge of the Computer Vision and Machine Learning research group, developing research on analyzing human movements through the eyes of machines at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

With a PhD from the prestigious ETH Switzerland, Associate Professor Yao has had many successful projects in the field of pattern recognition and data analysis. In 2008, she was honored to receive the prestigious Pattern Recognition (DAGM) award in this field.

She also received additional funding for her Artificial Intelligence research on image and video processing from the National Research Foundation of Singapore, and several large corporations such as MoE Singapore, AI Singapore, Meta, and Huawei.

At AI Day 2023, Dr. Yao will present an algorithm for recognizing and analyzing human behavior, based on sample action processes, promising to bring many new perspectives to the technology community participating in the program.

AI Day 2023 will take place on December 5-6, 2023 at The Global City (HCMC) with the theme "AI redesigns reality" focusing on bringing Generative AI technologies into life.

Currently, the event is offering a 30% discount on Early Bird tickets purchased before November 28, 2023.

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Bao Anh

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