Public Lecture Michael Bronstein

Michael Bronstein, DeepMind Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Oxford, UK

BREAKTHROUGHS WILL COME FROM INNOVATION

BOTH IN WETLAB AND ML/AI

Monday, 16 September 2024, 6:00 pm

Festive Hall, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

Welcome and Introduction

Heinz Fassmann, President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Music and Cocktail Reception

Michael Bronstein is the DeepMind Professor of AI at the University of Oxford. His research interests lie in geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, 3D shape analysis, protein design, non-human species communication. Michael Bronstein was previously Head of Graph Learning Research at Twitter, a Professor at Imperial College London and held visiting appointments at Stanford, MIT, and Harvard. Michael Bronstein received his PhD from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in 2007. He is the recipient of the EPSRC Turing AI World Leading Research Fellowship, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal, five ERC grants, two Google Faculty Research Awards, and two Amazon AWS ML Research Awards. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, BCS, and ELLIS, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and World Economic Forum Young Scientist. In addition to his academic career, Michael Bronstein is a serial entrepreneur and founder of multiple startup companies, including Novafora, Invision (acquired by Intel in 2012), Videocites, and Fabula AI (acquired by Twitter in 2019).