About
The BAAI Conference is committed to promoting international exchange and cooperation in academia and the AI industry, in the aim to cultivate a community and nurture technological research and breakthroughs across theory, methods, tools, and systems. The BAAI Conference is an annual international high-end academic exchange event on artificial intelligence hosted by the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), aimed to be an international “Expert Conference on AI”. The first conference was held on October, 2019. Last year, the 2020 BAAI Conference ended successfully with 500,000 in attendance. More than 150 speakers of top experts and scholars in the field of Artificial Intelligence from around 30 countries and regions attended this event, including five winners of Turing Award. The 2021 BAAI Conference will be held both online and offline at the same time. The onsite venue will be located at the Exhibition Center of the National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone in Zhongguancun, Beijing. It is expected that more than 30,000 professionals in the field of artificial intelligence will register for the conference.
General Chairs
Hongjiang Zhang
Dr. Hongjiang ZHANG is a Venture Partner at Sourcecode Capital. He previously served as CEO of Kingsoft Software, CTO of Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group and the Managing Director of the Microsoft Advanced Technology Center. He was also an Assistant Managing Director and a founding member of Microsoft Research Asia and was one of the 10 Microsoft Distinguished Scientists. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Institute of IEEE and ACM, and was the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2012 ACM SIGMM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and the winner of 2008 “Asian-American Engineer of the Year” award. He was selected as one of 2019's top 1,000 computer science and electronics scientists in the world by Guide2research, ranking first among mainland Chinese scholars.
Wen Gao
Prof. Gao works in the areas of multimedia and computer vision, topics including video coding, video analysis, multimedia retrieval, face recognition, multimodal interfaces, and virtual reality. His most cited contributions are model-based video coding and face recognition. He published seven books, over 220 papers in refereed journals, and over 600 papers in selected international conferences. His publications have been cited for over 28,000 times, and his H-index is 75, according to Google Scholar.
Program Chairs
Tiejun Huang
Professor Tiejun Huang is the former chair of the department of computer science of Peking University, specializing in visual information processing and neuromorphic computing. He has published 200+ papers, drafted 10+ published national and international standards, and holds more than 50 granted patents. He was awarded the National Award for Technology Invention (2017, Tier-2), National Science and Technology Progress Award (2010 and 2012, both Tier-2), and the Outstanding Youth Award for Technological Achievement Transfer from the China Association for Science and Technology (2014). He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2014, the Distinguished Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program by the Ministry of Education of China in 2015. He serves as the secretary general of the audio and video coding standardization working group from 2002 and the secretary-general of the New Generation AI Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance (AITISA) from 2017.
Jie Tang
Full Professor and the Associate Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University. Research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, social networks , machine learning and knowledge graph, with an emphasis on designing new algorithms for mining social and knowledge networks. He has published more than 200 journal/conference papers and hold 20 patents. Jie served as PC Co-Chair of CIKM’16, WSDM’15, Associate General Chair of KDD’18, and Acting Editor-in-Chief of ACM TKDD, Editors of IEEE TKDE, IEEE TBD, and ACM TIST. He was honored with the UK Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship Award, CCF Young Scientist Award, NSFC for Distinguished Young Scholar, and KDD’18 Service Award.
Track Chairs
Pingwen Zhang
2015年当选为中国科学院院士。他主要从事计算数学和科学计算研究,他在复杂流体的数学理论和计算方法、移动网格方法及应用、多尺度算法与分析等多个领域开展研究,取得一系列原创性的重要成果,迄今在JAMS,SINUM,PRL等杂志发表论文100余篇。
Jirong Wen
中国人民大学信息学院院长,高瓴人工智能学院执行院长,大数据管理与分析方法研究北京市重点实验室主任。1994年和1996年于中国人民大学分别获得学士和硕士学位,1999年于中科院计算所获得博士学位,同年加入微软亚洲研究院,曾担任高级研究员和互联网搜索与挖掘组主任。长期从事大数据分析和挖掘、信息检索、机器学习等领域的研究,至今已在国际著名学术会议和期刊上发表论文200余篇,被同行引用总计12000多次。担任ACM TOIS和IEEE TKDE编委、AIRS 2016大会名誉主席、CCIR 2017大会主席、SIGIR 2018领域主席、SIGIR 2020程序委员会主席等。注重产学研一体化和科研成果的转化,获得50多项美国专利,其中一些成果已经被用于重要的产品中(如微软搜索引擎Bing)。
Yunji Chen
长期开展深度学习处理器研究,被Science杂志刊文评价为“该方向的先驱”和“处于引领者行列”。他在包括ISCA,HPCA,MICRO,ASPLOS,ICSE,ISSCC,热门芯片,IJCAI,FPGA ,SPAA,IEEE Micro以及8种IEEE / ACM Trans。内部的学术会议及期刊上发表论文60余篇。陈云霁曾获国家杰出青年科学基金,中国青年科技奖,全国创新争先奖,国家自然科学基金委“优秀青年基金”,教育部“青年长江学者”,并被MIT技术评论纳入全球35位杰出青年创新者(2015年度)。
Shiguang Shan
Shiguang Shan is now a full Professor of the Institute of Computing Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and deputy director of the Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing of CAS. His research interests cover computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning (deep learning). He especially focuses on face recognition-related research topics and machine learning with little data or weakly-supervised data. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and proceedings in the areas of computer vision and pattern recognition. He is a recipient of China’s State Natural Science Award in 2015, and China’s State S&T Progress Award in 2005 for his research work.
Weiying Ma
Dr. Weiying Ma is currently the Chief Scientist at Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University. He has published over 270 papers on international conferences and academic journals, holds 160-plus technological patents. He is named an IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist.He was previously an editor board member of ACM/Springer Journal on Multimedia Systems, and the vice editor in-chief of ACM Transactions on Information System (TOIS). On July 1, 2018, he was ranked 86 on the list of TOP 100 industrial scientists.