[Quantum-ms] [EE Seminar] Pursuing the Nature of Intelligence, 5/1 Thursday

[Columbia EE Events]

Hi all, just a reminder this event is happening tmrw morning 10am in NWC
14th FLR conference room. See you there!

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM Columbia EE Events <
ee-events at ee.columbia.edu> wrote:

> *Date: *Thursday, May. 1
> *Time: *10:00am - 11:00am
> *Location: *NWC 14th FLR conference room
> *Seminar: *Pursuing the Nature of Intelligence
> *Speaker: *Yi Ma, School of CDS, Hong Kong University; EECS Department,
> UC Berkeley
> *Host: *John Wright
>
> *Abstract:*
>
> In this talk, we will try to clarify different levels and mechanisms of
> intelligence from historical, scientific, mathematical,and computational
> perspective. From the evolution of intelligence in nature,from
> phylogenetic, to ontogenetic, to societal, and to artificial
> intelligence,we will try to shed light on how to understand the true nature
> of the seemingly dramatic advancements in the technologies of machine
> intelligence in the past decade. We achieve this goal by developing a
> principled mathematical framework to explain the practice of deep learning
> from the perspective of compressive data encoding and decoding. This
> framework not only reveals true nature hence limitations of the current
> practice and but also provides principled guidelines to develop more
> complete and more efficient learning architectures and systems. Eventually,
> we will clarify the difference and relationship between Knowledge and
> Intelligence,which may guide us to pursue the goal of developing systems
> with true intelligence.
>
> *Bio of the Speaker:*
>
> Yi Ma is a Chair Professor inArtificial Intelligence, the inaugural
> director of the School of Computing andData Science and the Institute of
> Data Science of the University of Hong Kong since2023. His research
> interests include computer vision, high-dimensional data analysis, and
> integrated intelligent systems. Yi received his two bachelor's degrees in
> Automation and Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 1995,two
> master’s degrees in EECS and Mathematics in 1997, and a PhD degree in
> EECSfrom UC Berkeley in 2000.  He served on the faculty of UIUC ECE from
> 2000to 2011, the principal researcher and manager of the Visual Computing
> group ofMicrosoft Research Asia from 2009 to 2014, and the Executive Dean
> of the School Of Information Science and Technology of ShanghaiTech
> University from 2014 to2017. He was on the faculty of UC Berkeley EECS
> Department from 2018-2023,where he continues to be a visiting professor. He
> has published over 65 journal papers, 150 conference papers, and three
> textbooks on 3D vision, generalized PCA,and high-dimensional data analysis.
> He received the NSF Career award in 2004and the ONR Young Investigator
> award in 2005. He also received the David Marr Prize in computer vision
> from ICCV 1999 and best paper awards from ECCV 2004 and ACCV 2009. He has
> served as the Program Chair for ICCV 2013 and the GeneralChair for ICCV
> 2015. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and SIAM.
>
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