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July 20, 2020 - July 23, 2020

Frontiers in Machine Learning 2020

9:00 AM–12:30 PM Pacific

Location: Virtual

Monday, July 20, 2020

Time (PDT) Session Speaker(s)
9:00 AM-9:10 AM Welcome and Kick-Off Sandy Blyth (opens in new tab), Managing Director
Microsoft Research Outreach
9:10 AM–10:00 AM Fireside Chat
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Christopher Bishop (opens in new tab), Technical Fellow and Lab Director
Microsoft Research Cambridge

Peter Lee (opens in new tab), Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Research & Incubation

10:00 AM–10:30 AM BREAK
10:30 AM–12:00 PM Machine Learning Conversations
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Susan Dumais (opens in new tab), Technical Fellow & Managing Director
Microsoft Research New England, New York City and Montreal

Katja Hofmann (opens in new tab), Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Learning to Adapt: Advances in Deep Meta Reinforcement Learning

Akshay Krishnamurthy (opens in new tab), Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research NYC
Generalization and Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

Asli Celikyilmaz (opens in new tab), Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research AI
Modeling Discourse in Long-Text Generation

Dan Klein (opens in new tab), Technical Fellow
Microsoft Semantics Machine Research
Conversational AI: A View from Semantic Machines