Please join us for
PRIME TIME 2023
a special event to unveil the
UT Austin-Amazon Science Hub
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Doors open at 8:30 AM
Coffee and Continental Breakfast
Program starts at 9 AM
(RSVP required)
Mulva Auditorium
Engineering Education and Research Center
Cockrell School of Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
9:00 AM
Welcome
Dan Jaffe
Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors
9:05 AM
Opening Remarks
Roger Bonnecaze
Dean, Cockrell School of Engineering
9:10 AM
Introduction to the Science Hub
Al Bovik
Science Hub Director, UT Austin
BA Winston
VP, Prime Video
9:40 AM
Technical Talks
“Long-term Autonomy for User-Friendly Robots”
Joydeep Biswas, UT Austin
“Content-Based Video Asynchronization Detection”
David Harwath, UT Austin
“Bit by bit: predicting video quality”
Joshua Ebenezer, UT Austin
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM
Technical Talks
"The Science Behind Astro"
Adam Fineberg, Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon Consumer Robotics
“Causality and Distillation in Ranking”
Sujay Sanghavi, UT Austin
Large Foundation Models in E-commerce
Belinda Zeng, Director of Applied Science, Amazon Search Science and AI
