On the morning of October 23rd, Turing Award Laureate Professor Raj Reddy visited the College of Computer Science and Technology of Zhejiang University and held a round-table discussion with the teachers of our college. The symposium was presided over by Professor Zhuang Yueting. Professor Yin Jianwei, Vice Dean of our college, and representatives of young teachers attended the meeting.
At the beginning, Professor Zhuang Yueting introduced the teacher representatives to Professor Reddy. Professor Yin Jianwei introduced to Professor Reddy that the two disciplines of computer science and software engineering were selected into the list of “double first-class” disciplines in the country, and both of them received A+ ratings in the fourth round of national assessment. He indicated that the school will further deepen international exchanges and cooperation towards the goal of building a world-class discipline. The young teacher representatives then reported and communicated with Professor Reddy on their recent research progress.
At the seminar, the teacher representatives presented their research results in the direction of in the fields of Verification Code Security, Social Network Representation Learning, Multimodal Text Analysis Application and Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Design. Their sharing was then reviewed and guided in details by Professor Reddy. Professor Reddy pointed out that the work of several young teachers not only demonstrated the most advanced academic progress in artificial intelligence, but also displayed significant social application potential. An important breakthrough in the future application of artificial intelligence technology is the analysis based on global data. By studying global macro data anonymously, these technologies can help solve today's major social problems, such as child trafficking and fake news. At the same time, Professor Reddy proposed an exciting research direction for the text analysis technology shared by a young teacher, namely to build an automatic mail processing system. The system will be able to understand the content of email through text analysis, automatically generate reply options, and apply loop learning based on the respondent's choice to intelligently process the mail, which will save a lot of time for contemporary office work.
In addition, Professor Reddy shared some of the challenges that may be encountered in the future of global data research. On the one hand, massive data puts high demands on data bandwidth and computing power, but he believes that with our college’s research strength in the field of supercomputing, this challenge will not be unsolvable. On the other hand, in the process of global data analysis, researchers should pay attention to the analysis results of available data, as well as the research bias that may be brought about by omitted data (such as groups in underdeveloped areas that has limited access to communication devices) to make research results more reliable.
Finally, Professor Reddy summarized the research work of young teacher representatives to look into the future application of artificial intelligence technology. The meeting ended in a warm discussion.
