Professor Xizhao Wang was invited to give a talk in our school on Dec. 1, 2019. He is a professor of Shenzhen University. The title of his talk is "Pros and Cons of Deep Learning". The talk was presided over by Prof. Ming Yang.

 

In the talk, Prof. Wang firstly introduced the successful cases of deep learning in the fields of face recognition, speech recognition, machine translation, human-machine games. Then he emphasized the limitations of deep learning, such as the disappearance of gradients, the inability to determine the depth of the network, and the heavy reliance on big data. Later, Prof. Wang combined research directions with practical issues and reported on some of the funding projects that their team has already undertaken. In response to the upsurge of deep learning, Prof. Wang proposed cold thinking under the hot development, and pointed out the further research and development direction of deep learning.

 

Prof. Wang was humorous, scientific and rigorous. The academic atmosphere of this talk was very strong. After the talk, Prof. Wang had a warm academic exchange with teachers and students.

 

In addition, Prof. Wang provided detailed suggestions and guidance for the discipline construction of the school.

Short Bio:

Professor Xizhao Wang, PhD supervisor of Shenzhen University, editor of IEEE Fellow, CAAI Fellow, Springer Magazine Machine Learning and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy System / on Cybernetics editor. He serves as the executive director of the Chinese Institute of Artificial Intelligence, the chairman of the Knowledge Engineering Committee, and the vice-chairman of the Machine Learning Committee. He is also a former member of the IEEE-SMC Board of Governor and chairman of the IEEE-SMC Computing Intelligence Committee. He is a high-level overseas (Peacock B) talent in Shenzhen City. Professor Wang's main research interests include uncertainty modeling and big data-oriented machine learning. He has published 5 academic monographs and textbooks, and published more than 200 academic papers. Google Scholar search shows that the paper has been cited more than 7,238 times, with the highest single citation more than 700 times; presided over and completed more than 30 projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the key scientific and technological research projects of the Ministry of Education, and the National Development and Reform Commission projects. He has supervised more than 150 doctoral / master degree graduate students, and has served as the conference or program chair of several international / domestic academic conferences. The International Conference on Machine Learning and Control (ICMLC) has been established for 18 years, which was initiated by him.