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London, UK

Rethinking software engineering in the AI era

Yangqing Jia (Alibaba Group)
10:20–10:35 Wednesday, 10 October 2018
Implementing AI
 Location: King's Suite
Secondary topics:  Computer Vision, Edge computing and Hardware
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With the breakthrough of AI and deep learning technologies, conventional software engineering practices have been evolving significantly to pair with the advances of large-scale data, computation, and algorithmic evolution. Yangqing Jia shares a series of examples to illustrate the uniqueness of AI software and its connections to conventional computer science wisdom. Yangqing then discusses future software engineering principles for AI compute.

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Yangqing Jia

Alibaba Group

Yangqing Jia leads Alibaba’s AI and Big Data org, supporting the large-scale applications both inside the company and on Aliyun, the number one cloud provider in China and a market leader globally. The org provides advanced AI systems and service combined with conventional big data wisdom (EMR, Flink, and Spark) as well as battle-tested solutions to serve every cloud client.