October 13-15, 2022

1st CASL Workshop

at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

Livestream Recording

Industry Session - Fri 14/10

9:15-9:45

Arrival / Coffee and Light Breakfast

10:00-10:30

Eric Xing

President, Professor at MBZUAI

Founder at Petuum, Inc.

Opening Remarks: AI at Scale

Eric Xing - WKF2022-CASL.pdf

10:30-11:00

Panel: AI at Scale in the Middle East

Moderator: Qirong Ho (MBZUAI)

Aurick Qiao

CEO at Petuum Inc.

Guowei He

Principal Engineer at Inception Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IIAI)

Merouane Debbah

Chief Researcher at Technology Innovation Institute (TII) and Adjunct Professor at MBZUAI

Shan Lu

Professor at University of Chicago

11:00-11:30

Le Song

Professor at MBZUAI

AI System for Drug Design

Le Song - xTrimo_CASL20221004.pdf

12:00-13:30

Prayer Time / Lunch

13:30-14:00

Ebtesam Almazrouei

Director of the Al-Cross Center Unit at Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

Extreme-scale of Large Language Models

14:00-14:30

Shan Lu

Professor at University of Chicago

Improving the Correctness, Performance, and Energy Efficiency of Machine Learning Applications

Shan Lu - CASL_MLSESYS_talk.pdf

14:30-15:00

Hector Liu

Head of Engineering
at Petuum Inc.

Fantastic Large Models and
What We Should Do

Hector Liu - fantastic_models_casl.pdf

15:00-15:30

Hao Zhang

UC Berkeley

History and Systems for
Training AI at Scale

Hao Zhang - CASL Workshop talk.pdf

15:30-16:00

Qirong Ho

Co-Founder at Petuum Inc., Assistant Professor at MBZUAI

Growing a workforce of
talents for AI at Scale

Qirong Ho - Growing a Workforce of Talents for AI at Scale.pdf

16:00-16:10

Closing Remarks

(End of livestream)

16:10-16:30

Break

16:30-17:30

Breakout Sessions

  • Operating Large Models at Scale
    hosted by Hao Zhang

  • AI at Scale in the Cloud
    hosted by Qirong Ho

  • Applications of Large Models (Digital Health, Creativity, Emerging Use Cases)
    hosted by Hector Liu, Willie Neiswanger and Sang Choe