Venues: Tsinghua University, Microsoft Research Asia

Past events:
Asia Faculty Summit 2016
Asia Faculty Summit 2012
Asia Faculty Summit 2010
Asia Faculty Summit 2008

The Asia Faculty Summit 2014 is organized by Microsoft Research Asia and conducted in partnership with Tsinghua University. The event will be held in Beijing, China, from October 30 to 31, 2014. The summit brings together hundreds of leading academic researchers, educators, and Microsoft researchers to discuss topics related to the theme “Computing in Science.” Cross-disciplinary collaborations in research and education will be addressed and explored, as well as how academia and computer science students can be better equipped to work with other disciplines in data-intensive sciences.

Featured speakers

Jining Chen President, Tsinghua University	Kap-Young Jeong President, Yonsei University	Takeo Kanade Professor, Carnegie Mellon University	Butler W. Lampson Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research	Christos H. Papadimitriou Professor, UC Berkeley	Jeannette Wing Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research	Andrew Yao Professor, Tsinghua University

General chairs

Hsiao-Wuen Hon Chairman, Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group | Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia	Andrew Yao Professor, Tsinghua University

Program chairs

Tim Pan University Relations Director, Microsoft Research Asia	Ming Zhou Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia

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  • Asia Faculty Summit 2012
  • Asia Faculty Summit 2010
  • Asia Faculty Summit 2008
  • Microsoft Research Asia

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