Where The Best AI Minds Unite
AI Day is the most prestigious event annually organized by VinAI Research. With an aim to accelerate AI development in Vietnam, AI Day is the event for not only VinAI Research but also experts around the world to gather and share knowledge, inspire the AI community with their latest works and discuss current issues in the field al together. This year, AI DAY 2021 - Empowering Innovations will be hosted virtually and honored to have many distinguished speakers joined with us.
Our Distinguished Speakers
Michael I. Jordan
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Oren Etzioni
CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Andrew Zisserman
Royal Society Research Professor, University of Oxford
Masashi Sugiyama
Director of RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Marian Croak
Vice President of Engineering at Google
Hung Bui
Director of VinAI Research
Ching-Yao Chan
Co-Director, Berkeley DeepDrive
Jigar Halani
Director of Enterprise Solutions Architecture & Engineering team at NVIDIA
Tal Hassner
Applied Research Lead at Facebook AI
Mark Johnson
Chief AI Scientist, Oracle Digital Assistant
Hongdong Li
Professor in Computer Vision at the Australian National University
Tim Baldwin
Melbourne Laureate Professor, The University of Melbourne
Dinh Phung
Senior Principal Research Scientist of VinAI Research
Hoai Nguyen
Principal Research Scientist of VinAI Research
Alexander Finder
Head of Autopilot Software at VinAI Research
Manish Gupta
Director of Google Research India
Thanh H. Nguyen
Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon
Bryan Low
Director of AI Research at AI Singapore
Hien Nguyen
Senior Product Manager at Adobe
Long Phan
Chief Technology Officer at Knowledge AI
Mai Do
Product Management at Waymo
Nguyen Nguyen
CEO of Trusting Social
Tu-Bao Ho
Professor Emeritus, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Minh Do
Vice Provost of VinUniversity
Minh-Triet Tran
Vice Rector of the University of Science, VNU-HCM
Le Nguyen Phi
Lecturer, School of Information and Communication, HUST
Ngo Duc Thanh
University of Information Technology, HCM
Dat Quoc Nguyen
Senior Research Scientist at VinAI Research
Binh-Son Hua
Research Scientist at VinAI Research
Anh Tran
Research Scientist at VinAI Research
Toan Tran
Research Scientist of VinAI Research
Tung Pham
Research Scientist of VinAI Research
Bui Thu Lam
Ministry of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Our exciting panel discussions
AGENDA
Submit your questions to our speakers at: https://bit.ly/AIDay2021Questions
DAY 1 - Friday, August 27
S1
Morning: AI in Research & Development
08:15
08:30
Welcome & Opening speech
08:30
09:00
An Overview of the Vietnam National Strategy on Research, Development and Applications of Artificial Intelligence until the year 2030.
Bui Thu Lam - Ministry of Science and Technology
09:00
10:00
Key note: The Decision-Making Side of Machine Learning: Computational, Inferential and Economic Perspectives
Michael I.Jordan - Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley
10:00
11:00
Panel Discussion: AI Research Development in SEA
Moderator:
Dinh Phung - Senior Principal Research Scientist of VinAI Research
Panelist:
1. Michael I.Jordan - Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley
2. Hung Bui - Director of VinAI Research
3. Manish Gupta - Director of Google Research India
4. Thanh H. Nguyen - Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon
5. Bryan Low - Director of AI Research at AI Singapore
11:00
11:10
Break time
11:10
11:55
VinAI Keynote
Hung Bui - Director of VinAI Research
11:55
12:00
Break time
12:00
12:30
Invited talk: Building a Better Face Detector Without Detecting Faces
Tal Hassner - Applied Research Lead at Facebook AI
12:30
14:00
LUNCH BREAK
S2
Afternoon: AI in Research & Development
14:00
14:05
Welcome to Afternoon session
14:05
14:35
Invited talk: The Changing Face of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
Mark Johnson - Chief AI Scientist, Oracle Digital Assistant
14:35
14:40
Break time
14:40
15:10
Invited talk: Monocular depth perception and Cross-view image localization for autonomous driving
Hongdong Li - Professor in Computer Vision at the Australian National University
15:10
15:15
Break time
15:15
15:45
Invited talk: Fairness in Natural Language Processing
Tim Baldwin - Melbourne Laureate Professor, The University of Melbourne
15:45
15:50
Break time
15:50
16:20
Invited talk: Intersection of Robotics, AI and Accelerated Computing
Jigar Halani - Director of Enterprise Solutions Architecture & Engineering team at NVIDIA
16:20
16:25
Break time
16:25
16:55
Invited talk: Recent Advances in Robust Machine Learning
Masashi Sugiyama - Director of RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
16:55
17:00
Break time
17:00
18:00
Invited Talk: Recognizing Human Actions in Videos
Andrew Zisserman - Royal Society Research Professor, University of Oxford
18:00
18:15
END AFTERNOON SESSION
DAY 2 - Saturday, August 28
S3
Morning: AI for Innovations Global AI Products
09:00
09:10
Welcome to Day 2
09:10
09:40
VinAI Talk - Perception Technologies for Safe and Autonomous Driving
Hoai Nguyen - Principal Research Scientist of VinAI Research
09:40
10:10
Invited talk: When Artificial Intelligence (AI) meets Autonomous Vehicles (AV)
Ching-Yao Chan - Co-Director, Berkeley DeepDrive
10:10
10:15
Break time
10:15
10:45
Invited talk: Semantic Scholar, NLP, and the Fight Against COVID-19
Oren Etzioni - CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
10:45
10:50
Break time
10:50
11:20
Sharing: Responsible AI at Google and more
Marian Croak - Vice President of Engineering at Google
11:20
11:30
Break time
11:30
12:30
Panel Discussion: AI for Innovations in Vietnam - Global AI Products
Moderator:
Hien Nguyen - Senior Product Manager at Adobe
Panelist:
1. Alexander Finder - Head of Autopilot Software at VinAI Research
2. Mai Do - Product Management at Waymo
3. Long Phan - Chief Technology Officer at Knowledge AI
4. Nguyen Nguyen - CEO of Trusting Social
12:30
13:45
LUNCH BREAK
S4
Afternoon: AI in Education
13:45
14:00
Welcome to Afternoon session
14:00
15:00
Panel Discussion: AI Education in Vietnam
Moderator:
Dat Quoc Nguyen - Senior Research Scientist of VinAI Research
Panelist:
1. Tu-Bao Ho - Professor Emeritus, JAIST
2. Le Nguyen Phi - Lecturer, HUST
3. Minh Do - Vice Provost of VinUniversity
4. Minh-Triet Tran - Vice Rector of the University of Science, VNU-HCM
5 Ngo Duc Thanh - University of Information Technology, HCM
6. Toan Tran - Research Scientist of VinAI Research
7. Tung Pham - Research Scientist of VinAI Research
15:00
15:10
Break time
15:10
16:10
Panel Discussion: VinAI Residency Program - Experience Sharing
Moderator:
Binh-Son Hua - Research Scientist of VinAI Research
Panelist:
1. Anh Tran - Research Scientist of VinAI Research
2. Manh Luong - Research Resident of VinAI Research - Batch 1
3. Quynh Le - Research Resident of VinAI Research - Batch 4
4. Tan Nguyen - Research Resident of VinAI Research - Batch 4
5. Bach Tran - Research Resident of VinAI Research - Batch 5
16:10
16:15
Break time
16:15
16:35
Resident technical talk: Explore Image Deblurring via Encoded Blur Kernel Space (CVPR 2021)
Phong Tran - Research Resident of VinAI Research
16:35
16:55
Resident technical talk: Exploiting Document Structures and Cluster Consistencies for Event Coreference Resolution (ACL 2021)
Minh Hieu Tran - Research Resident of VinAI Research
16:55
17:15
Resident technical talk: On Learning Domain-Invariant Representations for Transfer Learning with Multiple Sources
Phung Quoc Trung - Research Resident of VinAI Research
17:15
17:30
END EVENT
Poster hub
The presentations of research by VinAI authors at top-tier conferences
3:26
Many-to-Many Voice Conversion based Feature Disentanglement using Variational Autoencoder
WaNet - Imperceptible Warping-based Backdoor Attack
Distributional Sliced-Wasserstein and Applications to Generative Modeling
Improving Relational Regularized Autoencoders with Spherical Sliced Fused Gromov Wasserstein
5:01
Lipstick ain't enough: Beyond Color Matching for In-the-Wild Makeup Transfer
5:00
Dictionary-guided Scene Text Recognition
4:49
Explore Image Deblurring via Blur Kernel Space
5:00
Progressive Semantic Segmentation
LAMDA: Label Matching Deep Domain Adaptation
1:46
Temporal Predictive Coding for Model-based Planning in Latent Space
11:40
Exploiting Document Structures and Cluster Consistencies for Event Coreference Resolution
13:04
Graph Convolutional Networks for Event CausalityIdentification with Rich Document-level Structures
9:21
PhoNLP: A joint multi-task learning model for Vietnamese part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition and dependency parsing
TIDOT: A Teacher Imitation Learning Approach for Domain Adaptation with Optimal Transport
MOST: Multi-Source Domain Adaptation via Optimal Transport for Student-Teacher Learning
Input-aware dynamic backdoor attack
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