October 30, 2014 - October 31, 2014

Asia Faculty Summit 2014

Location: Beijing, China

Venues: Tsinghua University, Microsoft Research Asia

Past events:
Asia Faculty Summit 2016
Asia Faculty Summit 2012
Asia Faculty Summit 2010
Asia Faculty Summit 2008

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The Asia Faculty Summit 2014 is organized by Microsoft Research Asia and conducted in partnership with Tsinghua University. The event will be held in Beijing, China, from October 30 to 31, 2014. The summit brings together hundreds of leading academic researchers, educators, and Microsoft researchers to discuss topics related to the theme “Computing in Science.” Cross-disciplinary collaborations in research and education will be addressed and explored, as well as how academia and computer science students can be better equipped to work with other disciplines in data-intensive sciences.

Featured speakers

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Jining Chen

President,
Tsinghua University

Kap-Young Jeong

President,
Yonsei University

Takeo Kanade

Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University

Butler W. Lampson

Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research

Christos H. Papadimitriou

Professor,
UC Berkeley

Jeannette Wing

Corporate Vice President,
Microsoft Research

Andrew Yao

Professor,
Tsinghua University

General chairs

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Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Chairman,
Microsoft
Asia-Pacific
R&D Group |
Managing Director,
Microsoft
Research Asia

Andrew Yao

Professor,
Tsinghua
University

Program chairs

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Tim Pan

University
Relations
Director,
Microsoft
Research Asia

Ming Zhou

Principal
Researcher,
Microsoft
Research Asia