Dr. Hui-Huang Hsu has been the Counsellor and Director of Science and Technology Division at Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vietnam since February 2019. His job is to promote bilateral collaboration in science and technology between Taiwan and Vietnam. He is also responsible for the cooperation with Thailand, Philippines, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. Before this assignment, he was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan, where he was the Chairman from August 2012 to July 2016. He served as the Dean of College of Engineering from August 2016 to January 2019. He was also the President of Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) from February 2017 to January 2019. Prof. Hsu received his Ph.D. and M.S. Degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, USA. He has worked in the areas of machine learning, data mining, ambient intelligence, bio-medical informatics, and multimedia processing. Prof. Hsu is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dr. Hui-Huang Hsu will give a speech about "Digital Transformation in the AI Era".

• AI breakthroughs in recent years enable various AI applications in practice. On the other hand, digital technologies are used for innovation in all aspects of human activities. Digital transformation has become a key national plan in many countries. Nevertheless, digital transformation and AI development are inseparable. In this speech, I will talk about digital transformation trend, AI breakthroughs and key technologies in the AI era. I will then give six examples of digital transformation with AI. Finally, we will discuss how to speed up digital transformation.

Dr. Eric Dziuban is currently the Country Director for CDC Vietnam, an office of 70 staff based between locations in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. He arrived in Vietnam in May 2021, following three years as CDC Country Director in Namibia. In that role he also served as the U.S. Embassy’s senior advisor for COVID-19 planning and senior liaison to the Namibian government’s COVID-19 emergency response.

Previous roles at CDC span work from pediatric HIV to emergency preparedness. Outside of regular duties, Dr. Dziuban has participated in CDC’s response efforts for Ebola, Zika virus, hurricane disasters, and the Flint water crisis. He has provided expert review and technical support for projects led by the World Health Organization, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is also a Commander in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Prior to joining U.S. Government service, Dr. Dziuban lived and worked as a physician in Swaziland for Baylor College of Medicine. He continues to maintain board certification as a licensed pediatrician. He received his medical degree at Duke University and completed pediatric residency at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Dziuban and his wife were both born and raised in Michigan. They currently live in Hanoi, Vietnam with their two sons.

Dr. Eric Dziuban will give a speech about:

• Pandemics have been a part of human history since its beginning, but the world was not ready for that history to come back to life with a global pandemic of such enormous and devastating proportions. Almost every imaginable aspect of life on earth has been changed by COVID-19, unlike anything since World War II. What made us so vulnerable to this threat? Shouldn’t modern technology have helped us be able to avoid this crisis? This talk will explore how the changes since the Spanish Flu in 1918 have both made us more at risk from a pandemic like this and provided ways to overcome it. We will focus on the importance of good science during the dangerous stages of the pandemic when we need to be able to separate false rumors from reliable facts. To do this, we have tools of research and public health, some of which are new and some that have proven themselves for centuries. At the end of the day, how do we make the right decisions when the whole world depends on it? And what do we do about all the things we still don’t know about this event that may define us to all future generations? Dr. Dziuban will draw from his experience on previous outbreaks and his work to fight COVID across different continents to consider these questions and what they mean for the years ahead of us.