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Thursday, December 27, 2018

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Laboratories

  • Machine Intelligence
  • Data Computing
  • Robotics
  • Machine Intelligence
    Research Area Overview
    The Alibaba Damo Academy’s Machine Intelligence Research Sector utilizing researches in cutting-edge machine intelligence’s theories and applications, especially the machine learning, helps industries to improve efficiency in retailing, , transportation, service, medical and judiciary sector, etc. Alibaba Damo is devoted to facilitate the revolutionary in fields, including economics, space technology, automatic control, computer design, and manufacturing, etc.
    The machine intelligence research sector encompasses five labs, namely Speech Lab, Vision Lab, Language Technology Lab, Decision Intelligence Lab, and City Brain Lab.
    Research Area Leader
    Rong JinHead of Machine Intelligence Technology
    He was a faculty member of the Computer and Science Engineering Dept. at Michigan State University. His research is focused on statistical machine learning and its application to information retrieval. He published over 200 technique papers, mostly on the top conferences and prestigious journals. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transaction at Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and ACM Transaction at Knowledge Discovery from Data. Dr. Jin holds Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He received the NSF career award in 2006, and the best paper award from COLT in 2012.
    Recent Events

    Data Computing
    Research Area Overview
    The Alibaba Damo data computing aims to reconstruct and converge the open, secure, agile and ecological information infrastructure, solve computational problems of function, efficiency and energy consumption, meet the needs of real-time interconnection, information sharing and intelligent applications among people, machines and objects, and eventually form a globalized intelligent computing ecosystem.

    Robotics
    Research Area Overview
    The Alibaba Damo Academy’s Robotics Research Sector is engaged in cutting-edge development in fields including environment perception, high-precision positioning, decision-making, intelligent control, etc.
    Based on robot technology, Alibaba Damo focuses on R&D and application in unmanned driving and unmanned logistics, also it is committed to remodeling the value in traditional industries, such as automobile, logistics, service sector, etc.
  • Financial Technology
  • X Laboratory

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Saturday, December 15, 2018

Alibaba Sets Up Chipmaking Subsidiary, First Chip to be Released in June 2019

Alibaba Group, the biggest e-commerce company in China, is setting up its own chipmaking subsidiary, 

Friday, December 14, 2018

Refer to www.afstoday.org/aaa2018-program/ for most updated program.

12:30 PMRegistration
1:00 PMOpening Speech
1:02 PMVenue host introduction
1:05 PMKeynote

Kyle Fry, Chief Financial Officer, MLG Blockchain
1:25 PMKeynote

Grace Chen, Director of Investment Sourcing, Meixin Finance
“Wealth Tech Deep Dive”
1:45 PMKeynote

Liang Bai, Founder, 01Caijing and 01 Thinktank
“Super-corn: Chinese Fintech Investing Leading the World”
 Startup TrackInstitution Track
2:10 PMJudge introductionTheme: Fintech in Institutions — Innovation in Value Transaction

Sebastien Meunier, Senior Manager, Chappuis Halder & Co. “Action: Blockchain in Financial Institutions”
S. M. Quamrul Hasan, Senior Procurement Specialist, The World Bank
“Global e-GP Architecture using Blockchain Technology”
Hee Lee, Partner, Financial Services, Ernst & Young
“Is Auditing Dead in the Era of Blockchain”
David Zhang, Head of Securitized Products Research, MSCI “AI mortgage models”
2:25 PMExplanation of Competition Rules
2:30 PMFintech startups Competition

Zhenghua Zhang, Founder and CEO, Unpay
Tra Vu, COO, Kambria and OhmniLabs
Visraant Lyer, Co-founder and CFO, Chord
Hugo Renaudin, CEO, LGOMarkets
NeoPlace
5:00 PMVolunteer recognition and group photo
 Evening Black-Tie Award Ceremony
5:00 PMRegistration and Networking
6:00 PMKeynote

Alex Mashinsky, Managing Partner, Governing Dynamics
“How Can a Blockchain Startup Raise $1Billion VC Funding”
6:30 PMKeynote

William Nichols, Senior Advisor, Information Architecture and Innovation, US Treasury Office of Financial Research (invited and accepted, await corporate approval)
“Standards, Standards, Standards in the Singularity of Blockchain Explosion”
7:00 PMDinner, and Toast Speeches by Judges, Contestants, VIP ticket holders, and AaA Committee members
8:00 PMAward Announcement and AaA Winner Speech
8:10 PMJudge Panel Discussion: Competition Review
8:40 PMBloomberg TV Interview with AaA Winners by Kathleen Hays

AaA 2018 Winner (to be determined by the competition on January 18th)
AaA 2017 Winner L.D. Salmanson CEO of Cherre

Sunday, December 2, 2018

Advancing Sustainable Development in China

BY |DECEMBER 21, 2018
By MA Lei
In Beijing, China, last month, the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management released their second annual report of the China Sustainable Development Indicator System (CSDIS), a sustainability indicator framework and annual ranking of the sustainability performance of Chinese cities and provinces, at an event attended by over one hundred people from academia, industry, government and the media.
“Evaluation Report on the Sustainable Development of China (2018),” a report on the project, was published as a prestigious “blue book” in China last month.
Hosted by the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE), the Program’s research partner and leading policy think tank in China, the event celebrated the second launch of the CSDIS as well as the publication of a Chinese “blue book” on the project, a prestigious academic publication in China. The publication, titled “Evaluation Report on the Sustainable Development of China (2018),” was sponsored by AliResearch, the research arm of the Alibaba Group.
CAI Jijun, the deputy chief editor of the Social Sciences Academics Press of China, the publisher of the blue book, opened the event by sharing the strict criteria that went into selecting this particular report for blue book publication, as it was selected as part of the national 13th Five-Year Key Publishing Project. Blue books provide scientific basis for macro-level decision-making and serve national strategic needs, and CAI shared how sustainable development is inevitably important for China’s current stage of development.
Moderated by ZHANG Dawei, CCIEE’s vice chairman and secretary-general, the audience then heard from WANG Jun, a member of CCIEE’s academic committee, and Satyajit Bose, associate director of the Research Program and associate professor of practice at Columbia’s School of Professional Studies. Speaking on the CSDIS project, WANG was confident that through our joint efforts we can continue to improve different sectors’ understanding of sustainable development and encourage implementation of its solutions. Satyajit Bose used an ancient Chinese proverb to convey that there are two sides of everything and that for China to measure its healthy development it cannot solely focus on higher GDP; sustainability is a key factor, and he hopes this project continues to contribute to that each year.
HAO Jianbin, secretary-general of the AliResearch Academic Committee, spoke on some of the progress that China has been making, including how Alibaba is implementing sustainable strategies in their own day-to-day business operations. With AliResearch’s new relationship with CCIEE and the Research Program, HAO sees Alibaba now having even more opportunities in absorbing and implementing practical sustainability strategies.
In the second part of the event, ZHANG Huanbo, a researcher from CCIEE, and GUO Dong, associate director of the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management, introduced this year’s research results of the China Sustainable Development Indicator System (CSDIS).
Dong Guo introduces this year’s CSDIS.
The biggest change from last year’s system is that 30 more cities were added to this year’s analysis, up to 100 from 70. Interestingly, one of the newly added cities, Zhuhai, ranked number one among all 100 cities in overall sustainable development, outperforming economic powerhouses like Beijing and Shenzhen. Zhuhai showed a true balance of performance in each of the five categories the system scores and ranks: economic development, social welfare & livelihood, environmental resources, consumption & emissions, and environmental management, earning it the top spot.
The event ended with a panel discussion on leveraging information to implement sustainable development strategies. Moderated by Satyajit Bose, the panel featured YANG Jun, strategy director of the Alibaba Cloud Research; LV Haiqi, deputy director of the International Statistical Information Center, National Bureau of Statistics of China; ZHANG Jianzhi, researcher from the Foreign Economic Cooperation Office; and MA Lei, the China program officer of the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management.
Satyajit Bose moderates a panel featuring YANG Jun, LV Haiqi, ZHANG Jianzhi, MA Lei.
As a “big data” expert, YANG thinks that big data is crucial in both cost savings and quality assurance when implementing sustainability strategies such as transportation data. By collecting a city’s transportation and traffic data real time and consistently, for example, a city could easily forecast the traffic times each day and inform citizens to choose more suitable transportation plans of the day. ZHANG has extensive experience in implementing pollution control through international cooperation, as well as using various mechanisms to get diverse actors to comply with environmental treaties. Besides government-only efforts, she sees that the awareness of public and private sectors have also largely improved. She commented that the CSDIS is of great help for Chinese cities to understand sustainable development and encourage healthy competition for cities across the globe. In response to the question, “What are some of the pitfalls that we should be concerned about in trying to measure something that is so multi-dimensional as sustainable development,” LV stated that although GDP is an important indicator and it will always play an unsubstituted role in measuring development, sustainable development is far more comprehensive. LV is aware of the fact that the CSDIS program has faced the hardship of ensuring data quality, but thinks this problem is being solved each year under China’s National Statistical Bureau’s yearly adjusted management standards. MA Lei shared her understanding of ways in which younger generations in both the US and China approach sustainable development. In China, for example, 37% of millennials are willing to spend more money to support environmentally-responsible brands; in the US, about 87% of millennials would be more loyal to a company that helps them contribute to social and environmental issues. MA, who always has reusable bags and utensils in her purse to substitute the use of plastics, has confidence in her generation’s growing behavioral change toward ethical and sustainable consumption.
Getting back to the CSDIS, the panelists agreed that “high-quality development” is a term often referred to and heard in today’s China, but its concept is actually similar to that of sustainable development. Essentially, China can’t just pursue high-speed economic development without fully considering people’s livelihood and environmental sustainability. These considerations are reflected in the five major categories of the China Sustainable Development Indicator System, which shall be updated and improved annually.



MA Lei is China program officer for the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management.