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First Uber Science Symposium: Discussing the Next Generation of RL, NLP, ConvAI, and DL

12 February 2019 / Global
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Zoubin Ghahramani, Uber’s Chief Scientist, speaks during the opening session of the symposium.
Ilya Sutskever of OpenAI presents on his team’s latest research.
Anca Dragan of UC Berkeley discusses AI safety.
Abhishek Gupta of UC Berkeley, Karol Hausman of Google Brain, Satinder Singh of Michigan, and moderator Jeff Clune of Uber AI Labs discuss related to RL research.
John Schulman of OpenAI presents his research in reinforcement learning.
Ryan Lowe from McGill University discusses challenges in evaluating the performance of dialog systems.
Patrick Nguyen from Google AI discusses his team’s work develop automatic speech recognition technologies.
Yaroslav Bulatov answers questions with Rosanne Liu, organizer of the Deep Learning and Deep Learning Infrastructure track.
Zachary Lipton from Carnegie Mellon University explains why machine learning models break under distribution shift.
Bryan McCann from Salesforce Research introduces the new ten-task natural language challenge.
Sam Schoenholz from Google Brain encourages machine learning practitioners to share their hyperparameter tuning experiences including, most importantly, their failures.
Mahdi Namazifar

Mahdi Namazifar

Mahdi Namazifar is a tech lead for Uber's NLP & Conversational AI team.

Gokhan Tur

Gokhan Tur

Gokhan Tur is a Director of Engineering with Uber AI.

Jeff Clune

Jeff Clune

Jeff Clune is the former Loy and Edith Harris Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Wyoming, a Senior Research Manager and founding member of Uber AI Labs, and currently a Research Team Leader at OpenAI. Jeff focuses on robotics and training neural networks via deep learning and deep reinforcement learning. He has also researched open questions in evolutionary biology using computational models of evolution, including studying the evolutionary origins of modularity, hierarchy, and evolvability. Prior to becoming a professor, he was a Research Scientist at Cornell University, received a PhD in computer science and an MA in philosophy from Michigan State University, and received a BA in philosophy from the University of Michigan. More about Jeff’s research can be found at JeffClune.com

John Sears

John Sears

John Sears is a senior research scientist with Uber AI.

Rosanne Liu

Rosanne Liu

Rosanne is a senior research scientist and a founding member of Uber AI. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science at Northwestern University, where she used neural networks to help discover novel materials. She is currently working on the multiple fronts where machine learning and neural networks are mysterious. She attempts to write in her spare time.

Xu Ning

Xu Ning

Xu Ning is a Senior Engineering Manager in Uber’s Seattle Engineering office, currently leading multiple development teams in Uber’s Michelangelo Machine Learning Platform. He previously led Uber's Cherami distributed task queue, Hadoop observability, and Data security teams.

Zoubin Ghahramani

Zoubin Ghahramani

Zoubin Ghahramani is Chief Scientist of Uber and a world leader in the field of machine learning, significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in algorithms that can learn from data. He is known in particular for fundamental contributions to probabilistic modeling and Bayesian approaches to machine learning systems and AI. Zoubin also maintains his roles as Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He was one of the founding directors of the Alan Turing Institute (the UK's national institute for Data Science and AI), and is a Fellow of St John's College Cambridge and of the Royal Society.

Posted by Mahdi Namazifar, Gokhan Tur, Jeff Clune, John Sears, Rosanne Liu, Xu Ning, Zoubin Ghahramani

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