Stanford Computer Forum And CS Industry Affiliates Annual Meeting

SDSI, AI Safety, SAIL, and Stanford Computer Forum Virtual Annual Meeting

Advances in Big Data, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning and Natural Language Processing

August 11 - 13, 2020

The three-day co-hosted event will present opportunities for our industrial partners to hear about the latest developments in timely and critical areas of technology. We look forward to sharing new faculty research and advances in big data, machine learning, reinforcement learning and natural language processing. This year we welcome a number of new faculty members from Stanford’s Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments. New faculty will discuss their research in optimization, computer vision, natural language processing, graphics, advanced architectures for machine learning, energy-efficient and high-performance systems, programming systems for sparse computing applications, design and analysis of algorithms, and more! We are also excited to open our sessions on Algorithms and Applications in Data Science and AI and AI Safety to all of our programs. As the promise of machine learning continues to grow we are faced with challenges of bias, value, representation and security. We are also continually challenged by the need for generalizability, transferability, and safety assurances for implementation in real-time, safety-critical applications. We have assembled an agenda of Stanford experts on these topics to present their research as well as participate in interactive panel discussions.

Agenda

Tuesday, August 11

Plenary Session: New Research Directions in CS & EE Hosted by the Stanford Computer Forum

10:00 am	Welcome & Overview
10:05 am	Jiajun Wu Assistant Professor of Computer Science View Video View Q&A
10:30 am	Aviad Rubinstein Assistant Professor of Computer Science View Video View Q&A
10:55 am	Tatsunori Hashimoto Assistant Professor of Computer Science View Video View Q&A
11:20 am	Keynote Andrew Ng Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Founder and CEO of Landing AI View Video
12:00 pm	Break
1:00 pm	Caroline Trippel Assistant Professor of Computer Science View Video View Q&A
1:25 pm	Priyanka Raina Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering View Video View Q&A
1:50 pm	Fredrik Kjolstad Assistant Professor of Computer Science View Video View Q&A
2:15 pm	Nima Anari Assistant Professor of Computer Science View Video View Q&A
2:40 pm	Karen Liu Associate Professor of Computer Science View Video View Q&A
3:00 pm	End

Wednesday, August 12

Algorithms and Applications in Data Science Hosted by SDSI

10:00 am	Jure Leskovec Associate Professor of Computer Science Co-Director of Stanford Data Science Initiative View Video
10:20 am	James Zou Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Computer Science (Courtesy) and Electrical Engineering (Courtesy) Faculty Director of AI for Health Program View Video
11:00 am	LIVE Faculty Panel     View Video
12:00 pm	Lunch Break        Student Research Digital Flipbook

Algorithms and Applications in AI Hosted by SAIL

1:00 pm	Chris Manning Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science Director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) Associate Director, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute View Video
1:20 pm	Emma Brunskill Assistant Professor of Computer Science View Video
1:40 pm	Tengyu Ma Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Statistics View Video
2:00 pm	LIVE Panel with Faculty and Samir Dhir, President & Head of Americas at Virtusa     View Video
3:00 pm	End

Thursday, August 13

AI Safety Hosted by the Stanford Center for AI Safety

10:00 am	Mykel Kochenderfer Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and By Courtesy of Computer Science Co-Director, Center for AI Safety Director, SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research View Video
10:20 am	Clark Barrett Associate Professor (Research) of Computer Science View Video
10:40 am	Dorsa Sadigh Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering View Video
11:00 am	LIVE Panel with Faculty and Jerry Lopez, Trusted Autonomy Researcher at GE Research     View Video
12:00 pm	Lunch Break      Student Research Digital Flipbook
1:30 pm	LIVE Discussion Keith Winstein   Abigail Wen
2:30 pm	End