July 2, 2018 -
July 6, 2018
AI Summer School 2018
Location: Microsoft Research Cambridge
Monday, July 2
| Time | Session | Speaker |
| 14:00 | Registration | |
| 15:00 | Welcome to Microsoft Research | Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Microsoft Research |
| 15:30 | Deep Learning Tutorial I | Ryota Tomioka, Microsoft Research |
| 17:00 | Welcome Reception | |
| 18:00 | Coach Transfer: Microsoft Research to Selwyn College |
Tuesday, July 3
| Time | Session | Speaker |
| 08:45 | Coach Transfer: Selwyn College to Microsoft Research | |
| 09:30 | Causality I | Chair: Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research Speaker: Joris Mooij, University of Amsterdam |
| 10:45 | Morning Break | |
| 11:15 | Causality II | Chair: Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research Speaker: Jonas Peters, University of Copenhagen |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Fitting Models to Data: Accuracy, Speed, Robustness | Andrew Fitzgibbon, Microsoft Research |
| 14:30 | How to Give a Great Research Talk | Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Break | |
| 16:00 | Deep Learning Tutorial II | Alex Gaunt, Microsoft Research Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research |
| 18:00 | Walk to The Granta for Evening Social Event | |
| 18:30 | Riverside Pub and Punt at The Granta Note: there will be no transportation to Selwyn College at the end of this Evening Activity |
Wednesday, July 4
| Time | Session | Speaker |
| 08:15 | Coach Transfer: Selwyn College to Microsoft Research | |
| 09:00 | Using Ethical Principles to Inform Industry Solutions | Jacquelyn Krones, Microsoft Redmond |
| 10:00 | Morning Break | |
| 10:30 | The Human Consequences of AI | Chair: Richard Banks, Microsoft Research Speakers: Ewa Luger, University of Edinburgh Simone Stumpf, City, University of London Marina Jirotka, University of Oxford |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | AI Through the Looking Glass | Dame Wendy Hall, University of Southampton |
| 14:40 | Model-Based Machine Learning Session | Christopher Bishop, Microsoft Research |
| 15:40 | Demofest including Afternoon Refreshments | |
| 17:30 | Walk to Downing College for Evening Dinner | |
| 18:15 | Reception Drinks and Games on the Lawn, Group Photo | |
| 19:30 | Formal Dinner at Downing College | |
| 22:00 | Coach Transfer: Downing College to Selwyn College |
Thursday, July 5
| Time | Session | Speaker |
| 08:15 | Coach Transfer: Selwyn College to Microsoft Research | |
| 09:00 | Higher Definition Healthcare with AI | Iain Buchan, Microsoft Research |
| 09:45 | Predicting Cancer Response using In Silico Mechanistic Models | Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research |
| 10:30 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 | Automating the Design of Predictive Models for Clinical Risk and Prognosis | Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Oxford |
| 11:45 | An Oncologist’s Guide to using Machine Learning for Cancer Therapy | Rajesh Jena, Microsoft Research |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Intelligent Machines | Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners |
| 14:30 | Afternoon Break | |
| 15:00 | Reinforcement Learning | Chair: Noboru Kuno (Sean), Microsoft Research Speakers: Shimon Whiteson, University of Oxford Arthur Juliani, Unity Technologies Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research |
| 17:00 | Poster Session including Drinks and Snacks | |
| 18:30 | Coach Transfer: Microsoft Research to Selwyn College |
Friday, July 6
| Time | Session | Speaker |
| 08:45 | Coach Transfer: Selwyn College to Microsoft Research | |
| 09:30 | Transparent AI using Trusted Hardware | Kapil Vaswani, Microsoft Research |
| 10:15 | Security and Privacy in Machine Learning | Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University |
| 11:00 | Morning Break | |
| 11:30 | How to Write a Great Research Paper | Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research |
| 12:30 | AI Summer School Closes | Grab-and-Go Lunch |