The world's great scientists gather at VinFuture 2024

NDO - World-famous scientists such as Professor Yann LeCun, the "father" of artificial intelligence (AI); Professor Marina Freitag, a scientist with new improvements for solar cells; Professor of neurology and epidemiology Valery Feigin... will come to Vietnam early next December to attend the VinFuture 2024 event, bringing a lot of information and new perspectives on the future of the world.

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

Professor Yann LeCun - the "father" of artificial intelligence

Professor Yann LeCun, Vice President and Director of AI Science at Meta, and Silver Professor at New York University, USA, one of the “fathers” of AI, will attend the discussion “Implementing AI in Practice” (December 4). This is one of the “hottest” discussions in the series of events of VinFuture 2024 Science and Technology Week when referring to the field that is of the most interest to the world today.

Professor LeCun is famous for his research on AI, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and computational neuroscience... In particular, he has made great contributions to the field 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 on earth 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.

Professor Marina Freitag - Scientist with new improvements for solar cells

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

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

By using advanced low-dimensional coordination polymers to harvest energy from the surrounding environment, Professor 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, Professor Freitag was awarded the prestigious Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Professor Seth Marder - the man known as the "Living Knowledge Repository" of humanity

Also participating in the discussion “Materials for a Sustainable Future” was Professor 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 the “living knowledge repository of humanity”, 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 start-up companies.

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

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

Professor Valery Feigin - medical doctor with the world's top 1 cited research

Professor 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 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.

Professor Feigin is also Co-Chair of the World Stroke Organization's Global Policy Committee and a member of the World Health Organization Technical Advisory Group on Research and Innovation related to Noncommunicable Diseases.

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

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

Chemist and atmospheric physicist Yafang Cheng and his insights into urban pollution

Expected to bring useful solutions to the problem of sustainable urban development in Vietnam is the discussion "Air pollution and traffic: Opportunities and challenges for Vietnam and the world" (December 5). The speakers of this event include Professor Yafang Cheng, Director of the Aerosol Chemistry Department - 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 scientists with the highest citation index (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 Award in Atmospheric Science of the American Geophysical Union; Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2021 in Physical Sciences of the Falling Walls Foundation; Schmauss Award of the Aerosol Research Association, Germany...

VinFuture 2024 also brings together many brilliant minds with outstanding contributions at the world level, such as: Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim - President of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS); Professor Richard Henry Friend - winner of the 2010 Millennium Technology Award; Professor Martin Andrew Green - "father" of the solar power industry and winner of the 2022 Millennium Technology Award and the 2023 VinFuture Main Award; Professor Leslie Gabriel Valiant - the founder of machine learning theory and winner of the 2010 AM Turing Award; Professor Nguyen Thuc Quyen - Top Most Influential Scientific Intelligences in the world in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018...

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