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MSR u0026 Mila Workshop 2021

Location: Virtual (Microsoft Teams)

Tuesday, April 13

Time (EST) Session
12:30 PM-12:35 PM Welcome
Jessica Mastronardi, Senior Manager Community Engagement & Partnerships, Microsoft Research Outreach
Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow and Lab Director, Microsoft Research Montreal, New England, and NYC
12:35 PM-1:05 PM Interactive Representation Learning
Devon Hjelm, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal
1:05 PM-1:35 PM Chatbots: There and Back Again
Mahmoud Adada, Principal Engineer Manager, Turing Montreal
1:35 PM-2:05 PM Machines with Common Sense? Modelling Plausibility in Text
Jackie Cheung, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Mila and Consulting Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal
2:05 PM-2:15 PM 10 Minute Break
2:15 PM-3:25 PM Breakout Session A: Generalization Failures in Deep Nets
Alessandro Sordoni, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Sara Hooker, Google Brain
Gauthier Gidel, Université de Montréal and Mila
Remi Tachet des Combes, Microsoft Research
Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal and Mila
Breakout Session B: FATE concerns in NLP
Alexandra Olteanu, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Su Lin Blodgett, Post Doc Researcher, Microsoft Research
Hal Daume III, Microsoft Research
Solon Barocas, Microsoft Research
Jackie Cheung, Mcgill University and Mila
Amandalynne Paullada, University of Washington
3:25 PM-3:55 PM Deep Learning of Abstract Mechanisms, Abstract Entities and Abstract Actions
Professor Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila
3:55 PM-4:00 PM Closing Discussion and Thank You Remarks
Professor Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila
Peter Lee, CVP, Research and Incubations, Microsoft Research

Wednesday, April 14

Time (EST) Session
12:30 PM-12:35 PM Welcome
Jessica Mastronardi, Senior Manager Community Engagement & Partnerships, Microsoft Research Outreach
Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow and Lab Director, Microsoft Research Montreal, New England, and NYC
12:35 PM-1:05 PM Towards Hyperparameter-Free Optimization for Modern Machine Learning
Simon Lacoste-Julien, Associate Professor, Université de Montréal, Mila
1:05 PM-1:35 PM Successor Feature Sets for Planning and Imitation
Geoff Gordon, Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal
1:35 PM-2:05 PM Dialogue as Collaborative Construction of Dataflow
Jason Eisner, Partner Principal Researcher, Microsoft Semantic Machines
2:05 PM-2:15 PM 10 Minute Break
2:15 PM-3:25 PM Breakout Session A: Memory in RL
Ida Momennejad, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
Blake Richards, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Mila
Guillaume Lajoie, Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Mila
Breakout Session B: Observe, Remember, and Assist
Andrew McNamara, Director of Engineering, Turing
Geoff Gordon, Microsoft Research
Gerald Haslhofer, Microsoft (MMX)
Kaheer Suleman, Microsoft Research
Tim Franklin, Microsoft (MMX)
Tianyu Li, McGill University
3:25 PM-3:55 PM Towards Broad and Robust AI
Irina Rish, Associate Professor, University of Montreal, Mila
3:55 PM-4:00 PM Closing Discussion and Thank You Remarks
Professor Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila
Peter Lee, CVP, Research and Incubations, Microsoft Research