The world is in the eve of the enthusiasm revolution by deep learning sweeping across almost all sectors of our society. Concerns are rising when the deployment has happened in the security critic domains, including autonomous vehicles and medical diagnosis. Fatal disasters on road, infamous privacy breaches, and shocking discrimination scandals undermine public confidence in deep learning applications. In this talk, we will present our perspectives, theory, and practice in (re-)building trust in deep learning.
Dacheng Tao is the Inaugural Director of the JD Explore Academy and a Vice President of JD.com. He is also an advisor of the digital science institute in the University of Sydney. He mainly applies statistics and mathematics to artificial intelligence and data science, and his research is detailed in one monograph and over 200 publications in prestigious journals and proceedings at leading conferences. He received the 2015/2020 Australian Eureka Prize, the 2018 IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award, and the 2021 IEEE Computer Society McCluskey Technical Achievement Award. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, AAAS, ACM and IEEE.