Today more than ever, we have access to both a wide variety and unprecedented amounts of data. This is an exciting opportunity for researchers on a mission to advance scientific knowledge. To achieve this goal and extract insight from multiple, large data sets, you need both computing power and reliable and secure technical infrastructure.
Keynote address: Leveraging Microsoft Azure to make your Research Success, by Dr. Alexandros Papaspyridis, Dr. Tim Pan and Mr. Angus Tong
- The importance of leveraging cloud platform to make your research success
- Microsoft Research Asia’s capabilities on supporting Research and Joint Hong Kong research showcase
- Azure Case Studies in Research department of Hong Kong Higher Education Institutions
- Guest Speaker sharing: Prof. Seto - AI for Detection of Liver Cancer
Deep-dive session 1: Secure Big Data Storage & Share for Local & Global Research Collaboration, by Mr Angus Tong
- Research Success with Cloud Storage
- Solution Overview (Azure Storage, Azure Data Share, Azure Data Protection)
- Solution demo
Deep-dive session 2: Get Just-in-time, Latest and Unlimited GPU Computing Power with Azure HPC and GPU, by Dr. Andreas Wilm and Dr. Auda Eltahla
- Research success with Azure HPC and GPU (with case studies)
- Azure GPU VM overview (NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs and M60 GPU)
- Azure batch for job scheduling and compute management
- Azure CycleCloud for HPC
- Support on any scheduler (like Slurm, Grid Engine, HPC Pack, HTCondor, LSF, PBS Pro, or Symphony) and solution demo
Deep-dive session 3: Develop Strong, Fair & Explainable Machine Learning Model with Azure Machine Learning Services, by Mr. Hugo To
- Research Success with Azure Machine Learning Services (with case studies)
- Solution overview on computing power for model training, model interpretation, fair learn and automated machine learning
- Solution demo
Day 3
Deep-dive session 4: Leverage Microsoft Pre-built AI model with Azure Cognitive Services, by Dr. Andreas Wilm and Dr. Auda Eltahla
- Sharing on success cases with Azure Cognitive Services
- Solution overview on computer vision, Text Analytics & NLP, decision making and AI searching
- Solution demo
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