October 30, 2014 - October 31, 2014

Asia Faculty Summit 2014

Location: Beijing, China

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Time Session Speaker Location 
8:45–8:50 Welcome Speech Jining Chen, President, Tsinghua University Lecture Hall,
Main Building,
Tsinghua University
 

8:50–9:00

  

Welcome and Microsoft Research Asia Update | slides | video

  

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

9:00–9:10

  

Group Photo
 

9:10–9:50

  

Computational Thinking
in the Sciences and Beyond | slides | video

  

Jeannette Wing, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research
9:50–10:30  

The Demand for New
Knowledge and Interdisciplinary Education
at Yonsei University
| slides | video

 Kap-Young Jeong, President, Yonsei University
 

10:30-10:50

  

Break
10:50–12:00 Panel Discussion
Fostering Interdisciplinary Talents | video		 Moderator: Tim Pan, University Relations Director, Microsoft Research Asia

Panelists:

  • Peng Gong, Tsinghua University
  • Kap-Young Jeong, Yonsei University
  • David S. Rosenblum, National University of Singapore | slides
  • Jeannette Wing, Microsoft Research
12:00–13:00 Lunch Break
 

13:00–13:40

  

Computer Vision: New
and Renewed Opportunities  | video

  

Takeo Kanade, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
13:40–14:20  

Hints and Principles for Computer System Design
 | slides | video

 Butler W. Lampson, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research
14:20–15:00  

Computational Ideas and
the Theory of Evolution
| slides | video

  

Christos H. Papadimitriou, Professor, UC Berkeley
 

15:00–15:30

  

Break
15:30–16:10  

Interdisciplinarity: A View
from Theoretical Computer Science | slides | video

 Andrew Yao, Professor, Tsinghua University
16:10–17:10 Panel Discussion

Interdisciplinarity: The
Future of Computer Science? | video

  

Moderator: Thomas Moscibroda, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia | Chair Professor, Tsinghua University

Panelists:

  • Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Butler W. Lampson, Microsoft Research
  • Christos H. Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
  • Andrew Yao, Tsinghua University
 

17:10–17:30

  

Microsoft Research
Outreach and Closing Remarks

  

P. Anandan, Distinguished Scientist, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Outreach
 

17:30–18:30

  

Transit to Hotel
18:30–20:30 Banquet Ballroom,
Beijing Beichen InterContinental Hotel

 

Friday, October 31, 2014

Time Session Speaker Location
8:45–12:30 Urban Science in the Cloud Chair: Winnie Cui, Microsoft Research Asia Conference Room 1409,
Tower 1, Microsoft Beijing West Campus
 

8:45–8:50

  

Opening

  

Winnie Cui, Microsoft Research Asia
 

8:50–9:20

  

Urban Computing: Using Big Data
to Solve Urban Challenges

  

Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia
 

9:20–9:45

  

Real-Time Urban Travel Time
Prediction Using KNN and Online
Traffic Simulator in the Microsoft
Cloud System

  

Hwasoo Yeo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
 

9:45–10:10

  

Enabling Causality-Based Air Quality Monitoring with Urban Big Data

  

Victor Li, The University of Hong Kong
 

10:10–10:20

  

Q&A
 

10:20–10:30

  

Break
 

10:30–10:55

  

To Feel the City’s Pulse with Mobile
Crowd Sensing

  

Yanmin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
 

10:55–11:20

  

Environmental Modeling and
Visualization System for Eco-Friendly Behavior in Urban Traffics

  

Takeshi Oishi, The University Of Tokyo
 

11:20–11:45

  

Build Smart Campus Based on Human Behavioral Data

  

Guangzhong Sun, University of Science and Technology of China
 

11:45–12:15

  

Deploying Connected Devices for Research

  

Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft Research
 

12:15–12:30

  

Q&A
 

8:45–12:30

  

Computing in Science

  

Chair: Miran Lee, Microsoft Research Asia

  

Conference Room 1103,
Tower 1, Microsoft Beijing West Campus
 

8:45–8:50

  

Opening

  

Miran Lee, Microsoft Research Asia
 

8:50–9:20

  

Biodiversity Monitoring Based on Cloud Environment and Citizen Science

  

Zheping Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
 

9:20–9:50

  

Visual Analysis of Topic Coopetition
on Social Media

  

Tai-Quan Peng, Nanyang Technological University
 

9:50–10:20

  

Collaborative Exercitation of
Geography Course Supported by
Geospatial Service Web

  

Huayi Wu, Wuhan University
 

10:20–10:30

  

Break
 

10:30–11:00

  

DigSee: Text Mining for Identifying
Disease-Gene-Biological Events
Relationships

  

Hyunju Lee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
 

11:00–11:30

  

Social Media Mining with Machine
Learning Methods

  

Jun Zhu, Tsinghua University
 

11:30–12:30

  

The Power of Azure Machine Learning

  

Junsheng Hao, Shanghai Yungoal Info Tech Co., Ltd.
 

8:45–12:30

  

New Age of Interaction:
Computer and Human

  

Chair: Noboru Kuno, Microsoft Research Asia

  

MPR,
Tower 1, Microsoft Beijing West Campus
 

8:45–8:50

  

Opening

  

Noboru Kuno, Microsoft Research Asia
 

8:50–9:20

  

Visual-Haptic Interactive Telepresence

  

Jeha Ryu, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

Sangyoun Lee, Yonsei University
 

9:20–9:50

  

Whole-Body Haptic Interaction

  

Hiroyuki Kajimoto, University of Electro-Communications
 

9:50–10:20

  

Using Kinect to Study the Role of Hand Gestures During Conversations

  

Hao-Chuan Wang, National Tsing Hua University
 

10:20–10:30

  

Break
10:30–11:00 Building Communication Bridges for
Chinese Minority Ethnic Languages:
An Efficient Translation Framework
Based on Microsoft Translator Hub		 Conghui Zhu, Harbin Institute of Technology
 

11:00–11:30

  

Speaker Support: Activity-Based Tools
for Presentation Authoring and
Language Learning

  

Darren Edge, Microsoft Research Asia
 

11:30–12:00

  

Office Mix: Online Lessons Made Simple

  

Kangping Liu, Microsoft Research Asia
 

12:00–12:30

  

The Software and Data Challenges of Games
for Coding

  

Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research
12:30–14:00 Lunch and DemoFest Reception Area
Tower 1, Microsoft Beijing West Campus
 

14:00–16:00

  

Microsoft Research Asia Open House

Have you ever wondered what goes on inside Microsoft Research Asia? We sincerely invite all Asia Faculty Summit guests to Microsoft Research Asia Open House events. Events will be organized by research areas with talks and demos.
 

Multimedia and User Interface

  

Chair: Baining Guo, Microsoft Research Asia

  

MPR,
Tower 1, Microsoft Beijing West Campus
 

14:00–14:10

  

Welcome and Overview

  

Baining Guo, Microsoft Research Asia
 

14:10–14:30

  

Virtualize Everything

  

Shipeng Li, Microsoft Research Asia
 

14:30–14:50

  

Embracing Cloud Media

  

Wenjun Zeng, Microsoft Research Asia
 

14:50–15:10

  

Recent Graphics Research in Microsoft
Research Asia

  

Xin Tong, Microsoft Research Asia
 

15:10–15:30

  

Toward Human-Level Performance on
Face Understanding

  

Jian Sun, Microsoft Research Asia
 

15:30–15:50

  

A Glimpse of Several Multimodal
Interaction Technologies

  

Qiang Huo, Microsoft Research Asia
 

15:50–16:10

  

Haptics at the Fingertips

  

Hong Tan, Microsoft Research Asia
 

Machine Learning, Knowledge
Mining, and Machine
Comprehension of Text

  

Chair: Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia

  

Conference Room 1103,
Tower 1, Microsoft Beijing West Campus
 

14:00–14:20

  

Welcome and Overview

  

Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia
 

14:20–14:35

  

Deep Information Extraction and Entity Extraction

  

Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research Asia
 

14:35–14:50

  

Learning Word Embedding from Big
Text Data

  

Bin Gao, Microsoft Research Asia
 

14:50–15:05

  

Knowledge Embedding

  

Jianwen Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia
 

15:05–15:20

  

Graph Computation

  

Bin Shao, Microsoft Research Asia
 

15:20–15:40

  

Natural Language Computing

  

Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia
 

15:40–15:55

  

Q&A
 

Systems and IOT

  

Chair: Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Asia

  

Conference Room 1409,
Tower 1, Microsoft Beijing West Campus
 

14:00–14:05

  

Welcome and Overview

  

Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Asia
 

14:05–14:30

  

Incentive Networks

  

Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research Asia
 

14:30–14:55

  

Mobile App Development: Contextual
Fuzzing

  

Mike Liang, Microsoft Research Asia
 

14:55–15:20

  

Cloud Scheduling: Apollo

  

Ming Wu, Microsoft Research Asia
 

15:20–15:45

  

Software Analytics: DriverMine

  

Shi Han, Microsoft Research Asia
 

15:45–16:00

  

Q&A