Azure Cognitive Services Research
CSR organizes the Distinguished Talk Series to host discussions with leaders in academia and industry. If you’re interested in giving a talk, please contact Chenguang Zhu ([email protected]).
Presenter |
Affiliation |
Date | Title |
| Prof. Zhengyuan Zhou | NYU | TBD | Optimal No-Regret Learning in Repeated First-Price Auctions |
| Prof. Mohit Bansal | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 8/31/2023 | TBD |
| Prof. Chen Sun | Brown University | 7/20/2023 | TBD |
| Prof. Haiyi Zhu | CMU | 6/29/2023 | Bridging AI and HCI: Incorporating Human Values into the Design and Use of AI Technologies |
| Prof. Mark Dredze | Johns Hopkins University | 5/18/2023 | LLMs and Health: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Prof. Dongyeop Kang | University of Minnesota | 5/11/2023 | Computational Modeling of Human Disagreements in the Era of Large Language Models |
| Prof. Graham Neubig | Carnegie Mellon University | 4/13/2023 | Learning to Explain and Explaining to Learn |
| Prof. Greg Durrett | UT Austin | 3/9/2023 | Information Synthesis in the Era of GPT-3 |
| Prof. Chen-Yu Wei | University of Virginia | 1/19/2023 | Policy Optimization in Adversarial MDPs: Improved Exploration Bonus Design |
| Prof. Xiaoming Liu | Michigan State University | 1/12/2023 | Autonomous Sensing: from 3D Object Detection to Biometric Recognition |
| Prof. Shuran Song | Columbia University | 11/10/2022 | Learning Meets Gravity: Robots that Embrace Dynamics from Pixels |
| Prof. Abhishek Gupta | Ohio State University | 10/13/2022 | Communication-efficient Model Heterogeneous Federated Learning |
| Prof. Serena Yeung | Stanford | 9/22/2022 | Overcoming Data and Label Bottlenecks in Scene Understanding for Healthcare Applications |
| Prof. Lu Wang | University of Michigan | 8/25/2022 | Long Document Summarization with Efficient Attentions and Structures |
| Prof. Muhao Chen | University of Southern California | 7/21/2022 | Robust and Indirectly Supervised Information Extraction |
| Prof. Allyson Ettinger | University of Chicago | 6/16/2022 | “Understanding” and Prediction: Controlled Assessment of Meaning Sensitivity in Pre-trained Language Models |
| Prof. Han Zhao | UIUC | 5/5/2022 | Understanding Gradual Domain Adaptation: Improved Analysis, Optimal Path and Beyond |
| Prof. Weijie Su | UPenn | 4/7/2022 | Gaussian Differential Privacy and Edgeworth Accountant |
| Prof. Jason D. Lee | Princeton | 3/17/2022 | Provable Representation Learning in Deep Learning |
| Dr. Yi Tay | 2/3/2022 | ExT5: Towards Extreme Multi-Task Scaling for Transfer Learning | |
| Prof. Junjie Hu | Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison | 1/20/2022 | Multilingual NLP: Cross-lingual Transfer Learning and Applications |
| Prof. Tengyu Ma | Stanford | 11/17/2021 | Understanding Self-supervised Learning: Analysis and Robustness to Imbalance Dataset |
| Prof. Jiantao Jiao | UC Berkeley | 10/28/2021 | Near-optimal algorithms for Imitation Learning |
| Prof. Vered Shwartz | University of British Columbia | 9/23/2021 | Commonsense Knowledge and Reasoning in Natural Language |
| Dr. Jim Glass | MIT | 7/22/2021 | Recent Progress in Self-Supervised and Cross-Modal Speech Processing |
| Prof. Zhiting Hu | UCSD | 6/17/2021 | Text Generation with No (Good) Data: New Reinforcement Learning and Causal Frameworks |
| Prof. Nanyun Peng | UCLA | 5/27/2021 | Controllable Text Generation Beyond Auto-regressive Models |
| Prof. Ashton Anderson | University of Toronto | 4/09/2021 | The Cultural Structure of Online Platforms |
| Prof. Aditya Grover | Facebook AI Research/UCLA | 3/18/2021 | Transformer Language Models as Universal Computation Engines |
| Prof. Diyi Yang | Georgia Tech | 2/18/2021 | Language Understanding in Social Context: Theory and Practice |
| Prof. Song Han | MIT | 1/21/2021 | Putting AI on a Diet: TinyML and Efficient Deep Learning |
| Prof. Tianqi Chen | Carnegie Mellon University | 1/15/2021 | Elements of Learning Systems |
| Prof. Xiang Ren | University of Southern California | 12/18/2020 | Label Efficient Learning with Human Explanations |
| Prof. Jiajun Wu | Stanford | 11/19/2020 | Neuro-Symbolic Visual Concept Learning |
| Prof. Fei Liu | University of Central Florida | 10/30/2020 | Toward Robust Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization and Information Consolidation |
| Prof. Vivian Yun-Nung Chen | National Taiwan University | 10/2/2020 | Are Your Dialogue Systems Robust and Scalable? |
| Prof. Meng Jiang | University of Notre Dame | 9/10/2020 | Scientific Knowledge Extraction: New Tasks and Methods |