Outstanding minds will be present at the VinFuture 2024 event series

(Dan Tri) - The Science and Technology Week and VinFuture Awards Ceremony 2024 took place from December 4 to December 7 in Hanoi, bringing together many outstanding names in fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), materials science, health science, environment and sustainable development.

Yann LeCun - an outstanding figure in the field of AI

Yann LeCun is an outstanding figure in the field of AI (Photo: The New York Academy of Sciences).

"AI Implementation in Practice" (December 4) is expected to be one of the "hottest" discussions in the series of events of VinFuture Science and Technology Week 2024 when referring to the field that is of the most interest to the world today. The attraction of the event also comes from the special speaker - one of the "fathers" of AI - Prof. Yann LeCun. He is currently Vice President and Director of AI Science at Meta, and also a Silver Professor at New York University, USA.

LeCun is famous for his research in AI, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and computational neuroscience. He has made great contributions to the fields of deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNN). CNN is the foundation of many products and services deployed by global technology giants such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Baidu, AT&T... and is used by billions of people around the world every day.

In 2018, Professor LeCun and two scientists, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, received the Turing Award - considered the Nobel Prize in the field of Computer Science.

Marina Freitag - Scientist with new improvements for solar cells

Marina Freitag, energy expert from Newcastle University, UK (Photo: NVCC).

Participating in the discussion "Materials for a Sustainable Future" (December 4), Prof. Marina Freitag - a world-leading energy researcher at the Royal Society of Research at Newcastle University (UK) shared about breakthrough research in the field of sustainable photovoltaic technology.

By using advanced low-dimensional coordination polymers to harvest energy from the surrounding environment, Prof. Freitag successfully developed dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Compared with conventional solar cells, DSSCs achieve record efficiency under ambient light conditions.

For his outstanding contributions to the field of sustainable materials, in 2022, Prof. Freitag was awarded the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Seth Marder - "Living knowledge repository" of humanity

Seth Marder, owner of a massive scientific research archive with more than 80,000 citations (Photo: University of Colorado Boulder).

Also participating in the discussion "Materials for a Sustainable Future" was Prof. Seth Marder, Director of the Institute for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, a joint organization between the University of Colorado-Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the US Department of Energy.

Known as a "living knowledge repository", Professor Marder possesses a huge scientific research portfolio, including more than 600 peer-reviewed articles, more than 80,000 citations, and 40 patents. In addition, he also co-founded two successful startups.

His contributions were recognized with awards including: Georgia Tech Outstanding Research Author Award, Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor (Georgia Tech's highest award for faculty), Humboldt Research Award...

Valery Feigin - The world's "Top 1 omnipotent" scientist

Valery Feigin is one of the names that the domestic and international medical community is most looking forward to at the seminar "Innovations in Cardiovascular Health Care and Stroke Treatment" (December 5). He is a world-leading professor in the field of Neurology and Epidemiology, currently holding the position of Director of the National Institute of Stroke and Applied Neuroscience, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand and an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, USA.

Feigin is also Co-Chair of the Global Policy Committee of the World Stroke Organization and a member of the technical advisory group to the World Health Organization on Research and Innovation related to non-communicable diseases.

Mr. Valery Feigin - World leading professor of Neurology and Epidemiology (Photo: Royal Society Te Aparangi).

According to Web of Science, since 2018, Prof. Feigin has consistently been in the top 1% of the most cited scientists in the world in all scientific fields. As of September this year, there were more than 350,000 citations drawn from his research.

Yafang Cheng - "Star" in the field of atmospheric chemistry and physics

Expected to bring useful solutions to the problem of sustainable urban development in Vietnam is the seminar "Air Pollution and Traffic: Opportunities and Challenges for Vietnam and the World" (December 5). The speakers of this event include Prof. Yafang Cheng, Director of the Department of Aerosol Chemistry - Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Germany), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Atmospheric Geophysical Research (JGR Atmospheres) of the American Geophysical Union.

Not only is he one of the most cited scientists (according to Clarivate & Web of Science), Professor Cheng's talent is also recognized by a series of international awards, such as: Joanne Simpson Medal and Ascent Prize in Atmospheric Science of the American Geophysical Union; Top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2021 in physical sciences of the Falling Walls Foundation; Schmauss Prize of the Aerosol Research Association, Germany...

In addition to the above-mentioned famous names, VinFuture 2024 also gathers many brilliant minds with outstanding contributions at the world level, such as: Prof. Quarraisha Abdool Karim - President of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS); Prof. Richard Henry Friend - winner of the 2010 Millennium Technology Award; Prof. Martin Andrew Green - "father" of the solar power industry, winner of the 2022 Millennium Technology Award and the main VinFuture 2023 award; Prof. Leslie Gabriel Valiant - the founder of machine learning theory, winner of the 2010 AM Turing Award; Prof. Nguyen Thuc Quyen - top of the world's most influential scientific minds in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018...

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