A*STAR CFAR / RIKEN-AIP Workshop

A*STAR CFAR / RIKEN-AIP Workshop (Hybrid Event)
16 December 2022, 9:00am – 5:30pm

In-person: Curie Room 1 & 2, 1 Fusionopolis Way, Connexis North Tower, Singapore 138632
Virtual: Zoom Session

ABOUT

Artificial intelligence is shaping the future of humanity across various industries. It is already the main driver of emerging technologies like big data, robotics and IoT, and will continue to act as a technological innovator for the foreseeable future. In this workshop, speakers from A*STAR’s Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR) and RIKEN Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) will gather to share insights on Machine Learning and AI Technologies.

PROGRAMME

Time	Programme
9:00am - 9:20am	*Introduction of ASTAR-CFAR** Prof Ivor TSANG Director, CFAR
9:20am - 9:40am	Introduction of RIKEN-AIP Prof Masashi SUGIYAMA Director, Riken Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) Professor, Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
9:40am - 10:00am	Robust VisIntel: A Roadmap towards Robust Visual Intelligence Dr Qing GUO Scientist, CFAR
10:00am - 10:25am	Applications of Adversarial Robustness Dr Jingfeng ZHANG Postdoctoral Researcher, Imperfect Information Learning Team Riken Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
10:25am – 10:55am	Tea Break
10:55am – 11:15am	Structured Feature Maps for Kernel Approximation Dr Yueming LYU Scientist, CFAR
11:15am - 11:40am	Parameter Averaging for SGD Stabilises the Implicit Bias towards Flat Regions Prof Atsushi NITANDA Associate Professor, Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology Visiting Scientist, Deep Learning Theory Team, Riken Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
11:40am – 12.00pm	Fast and Robust Rank Aggregation Against Model Misspecification Dr Yuangang PAN Scientist, CFAR
12:00pm – 1:15pm	Lunch Break
1:15pm – 1:40pm	Efficient Machine Learning with Tensor Networks Prof Qibin ZHAO Team Leader, Tensor Learning Team, Riken Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
1:40pm – 2:00pm	Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Action Recognition Dr Ying SUN Scientist, CFAR Joint Appointee
2:00pm – 2:25pm	Geometry of Gaussian Measures and Gaussian Processes: From Information Geometry to Optimal Transport Prof Minh HA QUANG Unit Leader, Functional Analytic Learning Unit, Riken Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
2:25pm – 2:45pm	Algorithms for Source Free Domain Adaptation Dr Chuansheng FOO Senior Scientist, CFAR Joint Appointee
2:45pm – 3:15pm	Tea Break
3:15pm – 3:40pm	Eye Movement Abnormalities in Older Adults With and Without Mild Cognitive Impairment Dr Alexandra WOLF Special Postdoctoral Researcher, Cognitive Behavioral Assistive Technology Team, Riken Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
3:40pm – 4:00pm	Can Model Compression Really Save Energy? Dr Joey ZHOU Senior Scientist, CFAR
4:00pm – 4:25pm	Addressing Practical Challenges from Medical to General Applications Dr Lin GU Research Scientist, Machine Intelligence for Medical Engineering Team, Riken Centre for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP)
4:25pm – 4:45pm	Shape-Texture Debiased Continual Learning Dr Zenglin SHI Scientist, A*STAR
4:45pm – 5:05pm	Learning Weisfeiler-Lehman Representations with Structure Enhanced Graph Neural Networks Dr Tiantian HE Scientist, CFAR
5:05pm – 5:25pm	DaisyRec: Benchmarking Recommendation for Rigorous Evaluation Dr Zhu SUN Scientist, CFAR
5:25pm – 5:30pm	Closing Prof Yew Soon ONG Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist, A*STAR President's Chair Professor of Computer Science, NTU Singapore

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