Microsoft Turing Academic Program Workshop
Location: Virtual
MS-TAP program has given a special opportunity to academics to research on Turing Language Model family with Microsoft. The workshop is to bring together the research institutions who participated in the program for the last 2 years to exchange their findings and learnings on their research on Large Language Models. We will also discuss the best way to make AI models by Microsoft more accessible to academics in a more accountable and responsible way so that we develop the foundational research community to drive the state-of-the-art of research and the innovation on Large Language Models together.
Speakers
(opens in new tab)Prakhar Gupta
PhD student
Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
(opens in new tab)Erwin Gianchandani
Assistant Director of the Directorate for Technology
National Science Foundation
(opens in new tab)Jianing “Jed” Yang
PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
(opens in new tab)Shane Storks
PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Agenda
| Time (PST) | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft |
| 8:10 AM | Panel discussion: Toward healthy research eco-system on Large Language Model | video | Panelists: Erwin Gianchandani, Assistant Director of the Directorate for Technology, National Science Foundation Percy Liang, Associate Professor, Stanford University Ahmed H. Awadallah, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Saurabh Tiwary, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Turing Moderator: Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft |
| 9:00 AM | Project Updates (30 min x 2 schools) | Robert West, Assistant Professor, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Percy Liang, Associate Professor, Stanford University |
| 10:00 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM | Project Updates (30 min x 3 schools) | Junwei Lu, Assistant Professor, Harvard University Prakhar Gupta, PhD Student, Carnegie Melon University Shane Storks and Jianing “Jed” Yang, PhD Student, University of Michigan |
| 12:00 PM | Update on Turing Academic Program | Vishrav Chaudhary, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Turing |
| 12:30 PM | Closing Remarks | Saurabh Tiwary, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Turing |
Workshop organizers
Megan Kairiss, Microsoft Turing
Vishrav Chaudhary, Microsoft Turing
Dean Carignan, Office of the Chief Scientist
Sean Kuno, Microsoft Research Outreach
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research Redmond
Ahmed H. Awadallah, Microsoft Research Redmond
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