Program


Day 1 - 20th Jul, 2020

8:00 am – 8:10 am

Opening Ceremony

8:10 am – 9:10 am

Keynote Speech: Chandrajit Bajaj, The University of Texas at Austin

Learning to Correct Form and Function with Reinforcement

9:10 am – 10:10 am

Keynote Speech: Geoffrey Ye Li, Georgia Institute of Technology

Deep Learning in Wireless Communications

10:10 am – 10:50 am

Invited Talk: Yuxin Chen, Princeton University

Sample Complexity of Asynchronous Q-Learning: Sharper Analysis and Variance Reduction

10:50 am – 11:10 am

Coffee Break

11:10 am – 12:10 pm

Keynote Speech: Laurent El Ghaoui, UC Berkeley

Implicit Models for Robust Deep Learning

12:10 pm – 12:50 pm

Invited Talk: Qing Qu, UMich Ann Arbor

Learning Low-complexity Models from the Data – Geometry, Optimization, and Applications

12:50 pm – 2:10 pm

Lunch Break(Welcome lunch for guests)

2:10 pm – 2:50 pm

Invited Talk: Itzhak Tamo, Tel-Aviv University

Combinatorial list-decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes beyond the Johnson Radius

2:50 pm – 3:30 pm

Invited Talk: Hye Won Chung, KAIST

Crowdsourced Classification with XOR Queries: Fundamental Limits and an Efficient Algorithm

3:30 pm – 4:10 pm

Invited Talk: Hui Huang, Shenzhen University

Learning Points

4:10 pm – 5:30 pm

Open Discussion

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Supper Break

Day 2 - 21st Jul, 2020

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Keynote Speech: Alexander Barg, University of Maryland

Coding Theory and Uniform Distributions

9:00 am – 10:00 am

Keynote Speech: Ercan E. Kuruoğlu, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute

Beyond Trans-dimensional Sampling: Generalised Bayesian Model Selection

10:00 am – 10:40 am

Invited Talk: Xiugang Wu, University of Delaware

Information Constrained Optimal Transport: From Talagrand, to Marton, to Cover

10:40 am – 11:00 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Keynote Speech: Yi Ma, UC Berkeley

Learning Diverse and Discriminative Representations via the Principle of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction

12:00 pm – 12:40 pm

Invited Talk: Chee Wei TAN, City University of Hong Kong

To Prove or to Disprove: Automated Reasoning by Convex Optimization

12:40 pm – 2:10 pm

Lunch Break

2:10 pm – 2:50 pm

Invited Talk: Song Yao, Senior Director of AI Business in Xilinx,Xilinx

2:50 pm – 3:30 pm

Invited Talk: Yang Liu, Principal Researcher of AI Department, Webank

3:30 pm – 4:10 pm

Invited Talk: Baoyuan Wu, Principal Researcher of Tencent AI Lab, Tencent

4:10 pm – 4:30 pm

Coffee Break

4:30 pm – 5:10 pm

Invited Talk: Weixi Gu, Industrial Intelligence Research Team Leader, China Academy of Industrial Internet

5:10 pm – 5:50 pm

Invited Talk:  Shuang Liang, CTO, Novauto

5:50 pm – 7:00 pm

Supper Break

Day 3 - 22nd Jul, 2020

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Keynote Speech: S. Joe Qin, City University of Hong Kong

9:00 am – 9:40 am

Invited Talk: Arya Mazumdar, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Learning Mixtures and Trace Reconstruction

9:40 am – 10:20 am

Invited Talk: Yuting Wei, Carnegie Mellon University

Breaking the Sample Size Barrier in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model

10:20 am – 11:00 am

Invited Talk: Jing Yang, Pennsylvania State University

Stochastic Linear Contextual Bandits with Diverse Contexts

11:00 am – 11:20 am

Coffee Break

11:20 am – 12:20 pm

Keynote Speech: Qingfu Zhang, City University of Hong Kong

Decomposition Multiobjective Optimization and Pareto Multitask Learning

12:20 pm – 1:00 pm

Invited Talk: Xueshuang Xiang, Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology

Towards the Blind Defense of Deep Learning

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Lunch Break

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Student Oral Presentation

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Student Poster Presentation

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Supper Break