NUS-MSRA
AI Summer School
in Partnership with IMDA
25-27th July, 2025
The NUS-MSRA AI Summer School in partnership with IMDA brings together experts to educate and foster collaboration among the next generation of AI leaders in academia and industry.
Covering topics in Foundational AI and domain applications of AI, the AI Summer School will enable faculty, students and industry practitioners to realise the growing, exciting possibilities surrounding the use of AI in the real world.
Venue
COM4 Seminar Rooms 31 – 33 (#03-01 - #03-03) 3A Research Link, Singapore 119392
Registration
Faculty, students and industry practitioners are welcome to participate in the AI Summer School
Please register here
Fee: SGD $100 per participant before GST (students/faculty)
SGD $500 per participant before GST (industry)**
**For participants from the industry, there will be a discount of 20% for 10 or more participants from the same organisation.
Payment link will be sent to registered participants via email.
Participants who complete the full programme will receive a Certificate of Attendance.
SPEAKERS
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
Daniela Rus
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zhao Jinhua
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SPEAKERS
Guo Baining
Distinguished Scientist and Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia
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Baining Guo is a Distinguished Scientist with Microsoft Research. Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and Royal Society of Canada.
Ben Leong
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore Assistant Dean (Dean’s Office), School of Computing, National University of Singapor Director, Centre for Computing for Social Good and Philanthropy (CCSGP) Director, AI Centre for Educational Technologies (AICET) Chief Data Officer, AI Singapore
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Associate Professor, National University of Singapore Assistant Dean (Dean’s Office), School of Computing, National University of Singapor Director, Centre for Computing for Social Good and Philanthropy (CCSGP) Director, AI Centre for Educational Technologies (AICET) Chief Data Officer, AI Singapore
Chen Yao
Research Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
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Dr. Yao CHEN is a Research Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to this, he served as a Senior Research Scientist and the Coordinator for Hardware and Data Analytics research groups at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) in Singapore, an affiliate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. degree from Nankai University, awarded in 2010 and 2016, respectively. Dr. Chen’s research is at the forefront of domain-specific architecture design, reconfigurable computing, high-level synthesis, software-hardware co-design, and electronic design automation. His pioneering work has been published in prestigious venues including MICRO, FPGA, DAC, ICCAD, SIGMOD, TVLSI, TCAD, and TC. In addition to his research, Dr. Chen actively contributes to the academic community. He is an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) and Frontiers in Electronics. His service extends to the role of session chair and Technical Program Committee member for several influential conferences, such as FCCM, DATE, ICCAD, ASP-DAC, and ISVLSI.
Doug Burger
Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research
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Doug Burger is a research leader in artificial intelligence, computer architecture, and computer systems.
Wei Furu
Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia
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Furu Wei is a Distinguished Scientist and Vice President at Microsoft Research. He leads the General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Group (opens in new tab) at Microsoft Research Asia(opens in new tab), Beijing, China.
He Bingsheng
Professor, National University of Singapore Vice Dean (Research), School of Computing, National University of Singapore
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Dr. Bingsheng He is currently a Professor and Vice-Dean (Research) at School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Before that, he was a faculty member in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2010-2016), and held a research position in the System Research group of Microsoft Research Asia (2008-2010), where his major research was building high performance cloud computing systems for Microsoft. He got the Bachelor degree in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (1999-2003), and the Ph.D. degree in Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (2003-2008). His current research interests include cloud computing, database systems and high performance computing. He has been a winner for industry faculty awards from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Alibaba, Webank, SenseTime and AMD. His work also won multiple recognitions as “Best papers” collection or awards in top forums such as SIGMOD 2008, VLDB 2013 (demo), IEEE/ACM ICCAD 2017, PACT 2018, IEEE TPDS 2019, FPGA 2021, and VLDB 2023 (industry)/2024. Since 2010, he has (co-)chaired a number of international conferences and workshops, including IEEE CloudCom 2014/2015, BigData Congress 2018, ICDCS 2020 and ICDE 2024. He has served in editor board of international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Springer Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) and ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). He is an ACM Distinguished member and an IEEE Fellow.
He Jiong
Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore
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Dr. Jiong HE is a currently a Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore and co-founder of InnoBridge Pte Ltd, an NUS-incubated startup dedicated to building scalable and cost-efficient AI products and solutions. He has held research and engineering positions at ByteDance, A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing, and Alibaba’s DAMO Academy, where he focused on optimizing query engines for emerging hardware architectures. Earlier in his career, he was a researcher at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), established by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. He earned his Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University and has published in top-tier venues such as VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, ICDCS, and CIDR.
Lee Wen Sun
Professor, National University of Singapore
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LEE Wee Sun is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. He obtained his B.Eng from the University of Queensland in 1992 and his Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1996. He has been a research fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy, a fellow of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and a visiting scientist at MIT. He has also been the Head of the Department of Computer Science as well as the Vice Dean of Undergraduate Studies and the Vice Dean of Research at NUS. His research interests include machine learning, planning under uncertainty, and approximate inference. His works have won the IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize 2022, the Test of Time Award at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2021, the RoboCup Best Paper Award at International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015, the Google Best Student Paper Award at Uncertainty in AI (UAI) 2014 (as faculty co-author), as well as several competitions and challenges. He has been an area chair for machine learning and AI conferences such as the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). He was a program, conference and journal track co-chair and has been the chair of the steering committee for the Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML).
Wang Lewen
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia Singapore
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Leewen Wang is a Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia Singapore
Liu Dianbo
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
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Our research focuses on developing machine learning methods that enable AI systems to autonomously interact with the world and learn generalizable rules from experience in an efficient and creative manner to achieve automatic self-evolution. Before starting CogAI4Sci team, Dianbo Liu was a group leader at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Prior to the Broad Institute, Dianbo worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Yoshua Bengio (a Turing Award winner) and led the Humanitarian AI team at the Mila-Quebec AI Institute. This followed his fellowship training and studies in medical informatics at Harvard Medical School. Dianbo earned his PhD from the University of Dundee, Scotland, under the supervision of particle physicist Prof. Timothea Newman. During his doctoral studies,he received the Vest Principal Scholarship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was a special graduate student at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Dianbo also co-founded two start-ups, "GeneTank" and "SecureAILabs," to advance AI applications in sciences during his training.
Mike Shou
Assistant Professor (Presidential Young Professorship), National University of Singapore
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Mike Shou is a tenure-track Assistant Professor (Presidential Young Professorship) at National University of Singapore. He was a Research Scientist at Facebook AI in Bay Area. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at Columbia University in the City of New York, working with Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. He received the Best Paper Finalist at CVPR'22 and CVPR'25, Best Student Paper Nomination at CVPR'17, PREMIA Best Paper Award 2023, EgoVis Distinguished Paper Award 2022/23. His team won the 1st place in the international challenges including ActivityNet 2017, EPIC-Kitchens 2022, Ego4D 2022 & 2023. He regularly serves as Area Chair for top-tier artificial intelligence conferences including CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ACM MM. He is a Singapore Technologies Engineering Distinguished Professor and a Fellow of National Research Foundation Singapore. He is on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.
Cheng Peng
Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Singapore
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Peng Cheng is a senior principal research manager at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).
Simon Chesterman
David Marshall Professor of Law & Vice Provost (Educational Innovation), National University of Singapore; Senior Director (AI Governance), AI Singapore
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David Marshall Professor of Law & Vice Provost (Educational Innovation) Senior Director (AI Governance), AI Singapore
Xie Xing
Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia
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Xing Xie is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia.
Xu Xinxing
Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Singapore
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Xinxing Xu is a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia Singapore. Senior Scientist, Group Manager of Multimodal AI, Innovation Target Area Lead (ITA) with Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Astar, Singapore.
Lu Yan
Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia
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Yan Lu is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). also, an adjunct professor at University of Science and Technology of China.
PROGRAMME
Please note that the programme may be subject to change.
| Time/Date | Friday July 25, 2025 | Saturday July 26, 2025 | Sunday July 27, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.30 – 9.00 | Breakfast | ||
| 9.00 – 10.00 |
Opening Remarks Mohan Kankanahalli NUS AI Institute Director Provost’s Chair Professor, NUS School of Computing Deputy Executive Chairman, AI Singapore Keynote Doug Burger Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research |
Agentic AI for Insurance and Finance (Tutorial) He Jiong, Senior Research Fellow, NUS |
Distinguished Speaker Zhao Jinhua Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 10.00 – 11.00 |
Large Language Models Furu Wei Distinguished Scientist and Vice President, Microsoft Research Asia |
AI for Finance Lewen Wang Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia Singapore |
Lili Qiu Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia |
| 11.00 – 12.00 |
AI Reasoning (Tutorial) Wee Sun Lee Professor, NUS School of Computing |
Creativity of Generative AI Models (Tutorial) Dianbo Liu Assistant Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine |
Media Computing Yan Lu Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch and Networking | Lunch and Networking | Societal AI & AI Governance Xing Xie Partner Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia |
| 13.00 – 14.00 |
AI and System Peng Cheng Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Singapore |
Multi-modal, Healthcare AI Xinxing Xu Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Singapore |
Lunch and Networking |
| 14.00 – 15.00 |
Whether, when, and how to govern AI? (Tutorial) Simon Chesterman David Marshall Professor of Law & Vice Provost (Educational Innovation), NUS Senior Director (AI Governance), AI Singapore |
Can AI Really Help Us Learn Better? (Tutorial) Ben Leong Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, NUS School of Computing Director, Centre for Computing for Social Good and Philanthropy (CCSGP) Director, AI Centre for Educational Technologies (AICET) Chief Data Officer, AI Singapore |
Distinguished Speaker Daniela Rus Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 15.00 – 15.30 | Afternoon Tea | Hanze Dong Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia |
Closing Remarks Wee Hyong Tok Partner Director, Products & AI, Microsoft |
| 15.30 – 16.30 |
Computer Vision Baining Guo Distinguished Scientist & Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia |
Afternoon Tea and Networking | Afternoon Tea and Networking |
| 16.30 – 17.30 |
Video Intelligence in the Era of Multimodal (Tutorial) Mike Shou Assistant Professor, NUS School of Computing and College of Design and Engineering |
Afternoon Tea and Networking | Afternoon Tea and Networking |
