Michael Bronstein: Breakthroughs with AI

What breakthroughs can be expected from working with AI? The new founding director of the AITHYRA Institute, Michael Bronstein, discusses the future of AI in a public lecture at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The AITHYRA Institute is funded by the German non-profit Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation (BIS) with € 150 million over the next 12 years. Michael Bronstein’s research interests lie in geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, 3D shape analysis, protein design, non-human species communication. Michael Bronstein was previously Head of Graph Learning Research at Twitter, a Professor at Imperial College London and held visiting appointments at Stanford, MIT, and Harvard. Michael Bronstein received his PhD from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in 2007. He is the recipient of the EPSRC Turing AI World Leading Research Fellowship, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal, five ERC grants, two Google Faculty Research Awards, and two Amazon AWS ML Research Awards. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, BCS, and ELLIS, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and World Economic Forum Young Scientist. In addition to his academic career, Michael Bronstein is a serial entrepreneur and founder of multiple startup companies, including Novafora, Invision (acquired by Intel in 2012), Videocites, and Fabula AI (acquired by Twitter in 2019). 00:00:00 Welcoming Words by Opera singer Michael Schade 00:05:05 Introduction by OeAW President Heinz Faßmann 00:15:30 Alexander Bronstein introducing his brother Michael Bronstein 00:20:00 Michael Bronstein's talk