The 2016 ShanghaiTech Symposium on Information and Science and Technology (SSIST 2016)

Tentative Program

June 23: Tutorial

Session 1: Computer Systems Tutorial, Session Chair: Zheng Zhang
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
08:20 08:30Opening Remarks Zheng Zhang (NYU Shanghai)Ballroon A+B+C
08:30 09:30Data-driven Smart Data Center Infrastructure Wei Xu (Tsinghua U.)Ballroon A+B+C
09:30 10:30A New Perspective on Software-Defined Architecture: The Computer as a Network Yungang Bao (CAS)Ballroon A+B+C
10:30 10:45Tea Break
10:45 11:45Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation in Practice David Evans (Virginia U.)Ballroon A+B+C
11:45 13:15Lunch Break
13:15 14:15Fast LDA Design and Implementation Wenguang Chen (Tsinghua U.)Ballroon A+B+C
14:15 15:15Building Efficient Distributed In-memory Computing Systems using RDMAHaibo Chen (SJTU)Ballroon A+B+C
15:15 15:30Tea Break
Session 2: Image-based 3D Reconstruction Tutorials, Session Chair: Jingyi Yu
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
15:30 16:30Photometric 3D Modelling Yasuyuki Matsushita (Osaka U.)Ballroon A+B+C
16:30 17:30State of the Art 3D Reconstruction Techniques - Beyond the Success of Multi-view Stereo Yasutaka Furukawa(WUSTL)Ballroon A+B+C
17:30 17:45Q&A Ballroon A+B+C

June 24: Symposium Day 1

Session 1: Keynote Talks, Session Chair: Yi Ma
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
08:20 08:30Opening Remarks Jie Yin(ShanghaiTech)Parkyard Pavilion
08:30 09:30Societal Scale Cyber Physical Systems Shankar Sastry (UCB)Parkyard Pavilion
09:30 10:30Developing the HKUST Robotic Ecosystem: Reflection and LessionsLearned Zexiang Li (HKUST & DJI)Parkyard Pavilion
10:30 10:45Shanghaitech VR Technology Press ReleaseJingyi Yu (Shanghaitech)Parkyard Pavilion
10:45 11:00Tea Break
Session 2: Invited Talks (Robotics), Session Chair: Sören Schwertfeger
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
11:10 11:30Pibot: a Humanoid Robot that flies an airplane David Hyunchul ShimParkyard Pavilion
11:30 12:00Learning, Interaction and Control of Human-Robot Hybrid SystemsHong Cheng (UESTC)Parkyard Pavilion
12:00 12:30Improving Safety and Autonomy of Intelligent Wheelchair in Dynamic Environments Weidong Chen (SJTU)Parkyard Pavilion
12:30 14:00Lunch Break
Session 3: Keynote Talks, Session Chair: Yi Ma
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
14:00 15:00Flying Robots: Beyond UAVs Vijay Kumar (UPenn)Parkyard Pavilion
15:00 16:00Probabilistic Techniques for Mobile Robot Navigation Wolfram Burgard (U. Freiburg)Parkyard Pavilion
16:00 16:20Tea Break
Session 4: Invited Talks (Virtual Reality & Robotics), Session Chair: Jingyi Yu
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
16:20 16:503D Urban Sensing and Visualization Baoquan Chen (Shandong U.)Parkyard Pavilion
16:50 17:20VR New Era Raymond Pao (HTC)Parkyard Pavilion
17:20 17:50Machine Perception and World Modeling in Unstructured Environments Andreas Birk (Jacobs University Bremen)Parkyard Pavilion
17:50 18:00Q&A Parkyard Pavilion

June 25: Symposium Day 2

Session 1: Keynote Talk, Session Chair: Hao Chen
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
08:30 09:30Interdisciplinarity: A View from Theory of Computation Andrew Yao (Tsinghua U.)Parkyard Pavilion
Session 2: Invited Talks (Theory of Computing), Session Chair: Pinyan Lu
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
09:30 10:00How to Count: Is It Easy or Is It Hard? Jin-Yi Cai (U. Wisconsin)Parkyard Pavilion
10:00 10:30Sketching as a Tool for Linear Algebra and Recent Developments David P. Woodruff (IBM)Parkyard Pavilion
10:30 10:40Tea Break
Session 3: Invited Talks (Computer Systems), Session Chair: Hao Chen
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
10:45 11:15Memory for Data-Oblivious Computation David Evans (U. Virginia)Parkyard Pavilion
11:15 11:45Realtime data processing at Facebook Guoqiang Chen (Facebook)Parkyard Pavilion
Session 4: Panel, Session Chair: Zheng Zhang
11:45 12:45The World We Are Building Tomorrow Guoqiang Chen, Weidong Chen, David Evans, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Jingyi YuParkyard Pavilion
12:45 14:00Lunch Break
Session 5: Keynote Talks, Session Chair: Jingyi Yu
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
14:00 15:00Ushering in the Third Wave of Computing Raja Koduri (AMD)Parkyard Pavilion
Session 6: Invited Talks (Virtual Reality), Session Chair: Jingyi Yu
Start EndTitle PresentersLocation
15:00 15:30Computational Near-eye Displays: Engineering the Interface between our Visual System and the Digital World Gordon Wetzstein (Stanford U.) Parkyard Pavilion
15:30 16:00Advancement of Object Detection and Virtual Reality for Video Services Tao Wang (iQIYI)Parkyard Pavilion
16:00 16:15Tea Break
16:15 16:45Fluid Dynamics Through Power Particles Mathieu Desbrun (Caltech)Parkyard Pavilion
16:45 17:15Extracting and Matching Topological Maps Sören Schwertfeger (ShanghaiTech)Parkyard Pavilion
17:15 17:45 See Like Eyes: Light Field Solutions for Producing Super-Realistic VR ContentJingyi Yu (ShanghaiTech)Parkyard Pavilion
17:45 17:55Q&A Parkyard Pavilion




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