Sponsorship Talk 1

Title: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Research and Its Applications

15:15 - 15:55, Dec. 16, 2022, UTC+8.

Speaker: 
Dong Li
Huawei, Noah’s Ark Lab

Bio:
Dr. Dong Li is currently the principal research staff at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab. His research interests include self-supervised learning, model-based reinforcement learning, and their applications on real-world products, for example, autonomous driving and circuit design. He received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019, and a Bachelor's degree in automation in 2014. He has published more than 20 papers on the topics of reinforcement learning, autonomous driving decision-making, and black-box optimizations. He also served as a PC member of AI conferences including ICLR, ICML, AAAI, and CORL.

Sponsorship Talk 2

Title: New Insights into AI Competition Design from Neural MMO Challenge Series

15:15 - 15:35, Dec. 17, 2022, UTC+8.

Speaker: 
Jiaxin Chen
Parametrix.AI

Bio:
Jiaxin Chen received her PhD in Department of Computing from The HongKong Polytechnic University. She received her bachelor degree in Applied Mathematics from Sun-Yat Sen University. Her research interests are in the broad areas of machine learning, with a particular focus on reinforcement learning algorithms and their applications. She publishes in prestigious venues such as NeurIPS and AAAI and serves as reviewers in such as NeurIPS, ICLR and ICML. She is currently a senior machine learning researcher in Parametrix.AI, organizer of IJCAI 2022 and NeurIPS 2022 Neural MMO Challenges.