CS-ECE Distinguished Lecture Series

Connecting People with Generative AI

January 26, -
Speaker(s): Xuedong Huang
Refreshments

Refreshments will be served at 1:30.

Abstract

The evolution of generative artificial intelligence has witnessed a paradigm shift towards a comprehensive, human-centered approach aimed at elevating communication and productivity to better connect people. This presentation delves into recent breakthroughs of large language models from OpenAI/Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta, and Google that helped Zoom AI Companion to redefine how federating multiple LLMs can enhance limitless human connection and productivity.

Speaker Bio

X.D. Huang is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Zoom. Prior to Zoom, he was at Microsoft where he served as Azure AI CTO and Technical Fellow. His career is illustrious in the AI space: he founded Microsoft's speech technology group in 1993, led Microsoft's AI teams to achieve several of the industry's first human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision, is an IEEE and ACM Fellow and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Xuedong received his Ph.D. in EE from the University of Edinburgh, his MS in CS from Tsinghua University, and BS in CS from Hunan University.

Zoom

Zoom Meeting ID: 875 466 3361
Passcode: 012624

Co-Sponsor(s)

Department of Computer Science; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact

Jian Pei