Microsoft Azure Webinar Series: Cloud services to advance your research

Discover how cloud services can help analyze, explore and share data that is key to advancing your research

Today more than ever, we have access to both a wide variety and unprecedented amounts of data. This is an exciting opportunity for researchers on a mission to advance scientific knowledge. To achieve this goal and extract insight from multiple, large data sets, you need both computing power and reliable and secure technical infrastructure.

Don’t forget you are encouraged and assisted to upgrade your technological level with the support of the Innovation and Technology Fund of the government!

Microsoft has invested heavily in the development of data centers for a public cloud infrastructure, known as Microsoft Azure, which is ideally suited to serve the needs of the scientific community. Join our webinar series to uncover how Microsoft Azure Research Suite can help you.

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Andreas Wilm
Regional Senior Cloud
Solution Architect, Higher
Education and Research
Microsoft Asia

Dr. Alexandros Papaspyridis
Director of Higher Education and Research
Education and Research
Microsoft Asia

Dr. Tim Pan

Dr. Tim Pan
Senior Outreach Director
Microsoft Research Asia

Dr. Auda Eltahla
Research Engagement Manager
Microsoft Asia

Angus Tong
Cloud Technology Lead of Public Sector Group
Microsoft Hong Kong

Hugo To
Account Technology Strategist, Higher Education and Research
Microsoft Hong Kong

Prof. Wai-Kay Seto
Department of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong

You are strongly recommended to join our kickoff session on Day 1, then pick the specific Azure Solutions that you are interested in throughout the webinar series!

Day 1

Keynote address: Leveraging Microsoft Azure to make your Research Success, by Dr. Alexandros Papaspyridis, Dr. Tim Pan and Mr. Angus Tong
- The importance of leveraging cloud platform to make your research success
- Microsoft Research Asia’s capabilities on supporting Research and Joint Hong Kong research showcase
- Azure Case Studies in Research department of Hong Kong Higher Education Institutions
- Guest Speaker sharing: Prof. Seto - AI for Detection of Liver Cancer

Deep-dive session 1: Secure Big Data Storage & Share for Local & Global Research Collaboration, by Mr Angus Tong
- Research Success with Cloud Storage
- Solution Overview (Azure Storage, Azure Data Share, Azure Data Protection)
- Solution demo

Day 2

Deep-dive session 2: Get Just-in-time, Latest and Unlimited GPU Computing Power with Azure HPC and GPU, by Dr. Andreas Wilm and Dr. Auda Eltahla
- Research success with Azure HPC and GPU (with case studies)
- Azure GPU VM overview (NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs and M60 GPU)
- Azure batch for job scheduling and compute management
- Azure CycleCloud for HPC
- Support on any scheduler (like Slurm, Grid Engine, HPC Pack, HTCondor, LSF, PBS Pro, or Symphony) and
solution demo

Deep-dive session 3: Develop Strong, Fair & Explainable Machine Learning Model with Azure Machine Learning Services, by Mr. Hugo To
- Research Success with Azure Machine Learning Services (with case studies)
- Solution overview on computing power for model training, model interpretation, fair learn and automated
machine learning
- Solution demo

Day 3

Deep-dive session 4: Leverage Microsoft Pre-built AI model with Azure Cognitive Services, by Dr. Andreas Wilm and Dr. Auda Eltahla
- Sharing on success cases with Azure Cognitive Services
- Solution overview on computer vision, Text Analytics & NLP, decision making and AI searching
- Solution demo