The 1st Forum on Frontiers of Science & Engineering: Everything towards AI

An academic alumni association of Tsinghua University in North America.

Tsinghua Alumni Academia Club (TAAC)

Overview
The 1st Forum on Frontiers of Science and Engineering (FFSE-2018) will be held in Seattle, WA, USA, on May 28-30, 2018. FFSE is a forum for researchers in academia and industry to be exposed to breakthroughs, innovations, and new trends in the broad areas of science and engineering that are changing the human society. FFSE offers an informal setting for dynamic interactions and exchanges on the frontiers of science and engineering research. FFSE promotes multidisciplinary collaboration in research and education in all aspects of science and engineering, including socio-economic impacts. The theme of the FFSE-2018 focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) and everything in science and engineering that may benefit from AI. FFSE features keynote speeches and invited talks in the formats of workshops, tutorials, panels and interactive sessions.
Regular registration covers everything, incuding banquet. Extra banquet ticket can be purchased separately.
Organizer
The Forum is an annual convention organized by the Tsinghua Alumni Academia Club (TAAC) of North America in collaboration with GIX Tsinghua. TAAC is composed of Tsinghua alumni who hold faculty positions in North America. The vision TAAC is to enhance communications and interactions, and to promote excellence in research and education for the benefit of the society. GIX is a global partnership between major research universities and innovative corporations to develop leaders in innovation. The first two academic partners are Tsinghua University and the University of Washington, with foundational support from Microsoft.
Speakers and Lectures
Dawn Song, UC Berkely: AI and Security: lessons, challenges and future directions
Eric Xing, CMU &amp; Petuum:  A Builder’s Take on AI
Jane Wang, UBC: Selected Topics in Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis
Lizhong Zheng, MIT: Information Theoretic Interpretation of Deep Neural Networks 
Luo Si, Alibaba; Natural Language Processing Research &amp; Development in Alibaba
Tian Zheng, Columbia Univ.: Statistical Thinking for AI: Keeping Human in the Loop
Xuedong Huang, Microsoft: Speech and Language to AI Evolution
Yi Ma, UC Berkeley: Low-dimensional Structures and Deep Models for High-dimensional Data
Yiran Chen, Duke Univ.: The Challenges of Running Neural Networks on Edge and Mobile Devices
Yuan Xie, UCSB: Architecture Innovations in the AI Era
Program Summary: 
May 28, Monday Evening Reception – get to know each other. May 29, Tuesday – Two technical sessions in the morning and two technical sessions in the afternoon with keynotes and tutorials. May 29, Tuesday Evening – Dinner Banquet and TAAC Inaugural Meeting. May 30, Wednesday - Two technical sessions of keynotes and tutorials in the morning and a panel session in the afternoon.
Venue
The forum will be held in GIX Institute in Belleuve, Washington, and the hotel arrangement is made with Hilton Bellevue for forum participants. 
Website
More information can be found at http://www.taacna.org/ffse