The summer school will consist of tutorials to provide background knowledge, as well as invited talks on recent research works on agentic AI.
The topics for tutorials include (subject to change):
- Agentic Architectures
- Hands-on session on building an agent
- Memory and Knowledge in Agentic AI
- Planning, Reasoning, and Reinforcement Learning
- Multi-modal Agents
- Agentic AI for Software Engineering
We are also planning a brainstorming session on open problems in smaller groups (topics to depend on interest of participants, e.g. deep research agents, computer-use agents, software engineering agents, AI scientist agents, embodied AI agents, human value alignment, etc.)
It would be helpful for participants to have basic machine learning and coding skills.
Keynote Speakers
Prof Wee Sun Lee
NUS Deputy Director,
NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII)
Prof Yee Whye Teh
University of Oxford
Prof Jiajun Wu
Stanford University
Meet Our Speakers
Venue
Lecture Theatre 15 (LT15), AS6, Level 1,
11 Computing Drive, Singapore 117416
Participation Fee and Registration
Faculty, students and industry practitioners are welcome to participate in the Summer School.
Prerequisite: It would be helpful for participants to have basic machine learning and coding skills.
Participation Fee:
Faculty/Students - SGD $100 per participant (before GST and any prevailing credit card fees)
Industry - SGD $500 per participant (before GST and any prevailing credit card fees)
Registration Link:
Please click on your participant category below for the registration link.
You will be prompted for payment after you complete registration.
Programme
Note: The programme is subject to change.
Day 1 – Wednesday, August 5
Time | Session | Title of Research Talk within Session (To be updated progressively) | Speaker(s) |
08:30-09:00 | Breakfast |
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09:00-09:45 | Opening Keynote | The Long Road to Agentic AI | Wee Sun Lee, NUS |
09:45-10:15 | MSRA Introduction and Opportunities |
| Lily Sun, MSRA Jingwen Wang, MSRA |
10:15-10:30 | Group Photo and Short Break |
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10:30-12:30 | Tutorial: Agentic Architectures |
| Wee Sun Lee, NUS Yan Xia, MSRA |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
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13:30-16:00 | Frontier Transformation in Research – Demo & Sharing on Microsoft Copilot & Agent Platform With afternoon tea served |
| Yong Keat Poh, Microsoft Singapore Jerry Hung, Microsoft Singapore Hieu Nguyen Nhu, GBB Microsoft IQ Jana Lee, Microsoft Singapore |
16:00-16:30 | Invited Talk | Can Language Models “Think” Internally as Human Brains? | Mingqing Xiao, MSRA Singapore |
| 18:00-20:00 | Dinner for Speakers |
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Day 2 – Thursday, August 6
Time | Session | Title of Research Talk within Session (To be updated progressively) | Speaker(s) |
08:30-09:00 | Breakfast |
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09:00-10:00 | Invited Keynote | Some Ideas for Better AI Agency through Self-play and Self-improvement | Yee Whye Teh, Oxford |
10:00-10:30 | Invited Talk | Experiential Learning | Tianzhu Ye, MSRA |
10:30-12:30 | Tutorial: Memory and Knowledge in Agentic AI | Improving AI Capabilities through Agentic Memory | Baotong Lu, MSRA Yihao Ang, Yixuan Tang, NUS |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
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13:30-16:00 | Tutorial: Planning, Reasoning, and Reinforcement Learning
| RL over Commodity Networks: Overcoming the Bandwidth Barrier with Lossless Sparse Deltas (Dehui Wei) | Anji Liu, NUS Dehui Wei, MSRA |
16:00-16:30 | Invited Talk | Forecast, Act, Adapt: Agentic Time-Series Intelligence and Temporal Perspectives on AI Agent Design | Jiawen Zhang, MSRA Singapore |
Day 3 – Friday, August 7
Time | Session | Title of Research Talk within Session (To be updated progressively) | Speaker(s) |
08:30-09:00 | Breakfast |
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09:00-10:00 | Invited Keynote | Building Physical Agents via Structured Representations | Jiajun Wu, Stanford |
10:00-12:00 | Tutorial: From Multi-modal Understanding to Multi-modal Agents |
| Mike Shou, NUS Shujie Liu, MSRA Jipeng Zhang, MSRA Singapore |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch Break |
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13:00-14:00 | Tutorial: Agentic AI for Software Engineering |
| Abhik Roychoudhury, NUS |
14:00-14:30 | Invited Talk | Efficient Next-Generation AI Networking: From Scalable Fabrics to Fast Simulation Platforms | Ran Shu, MSRA |
14:30-16:30 | Open Problems Discussion
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| Xinxing Xu, MSRA Singapore (with other facilitators to be confirmed) |
Please direct your queries to Maha at maha16@nus.edu.sg
