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  • USC Machine Learning Retreat

    Fri, Sep 30, 2016

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    Workshops & Infosessions


    Attached is the flyer and a preliminary program of the event. If you're interested in participating, we would greatly appreciate your RSVP to our invitation using the following link: tinyurl.com/hedylre.

    8:30am - 8:40am Opening remarks

    8:40am - 10:30am Research highlight presentations (10min each)
    -Modeling (8:40am - 9:10am): Fei Sha, Yan Liu, Aram Galstyan
    -Theory (9:10am-9:30am): Ilias Diakonikolas, Rahul Jain
    -Optimization (9:30am-10:00am): Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Jason Lee, Meisam Razaviyayn
    -High-Dimensional statistics (10:00am - 10:30am): Jinchi Lv, Yingying, Stanislav Minsker

    10:30am- 10:45am Break

    10:45am -11:45am Keynote Talk: Prof. Jaime Carbonell (CMU)
    Title: Machine Learning under Label Sparsity: Transfer, Multitask and Proactive Learning

    11:45am - 12:00pm Lunch Break

    12:00pm-1:00pm Panel - The future of AI and Big Data
    Panelist: Kevin Knight, Shri Narayanan, Ram Nevatia, Milind Tambe, Cyrus Shahabi, Stefan Schaal

    1:00pm - 2:30pm Industry leader talks (30min each)
    Ulas Bardak (Chief Technology Officer at Whisper App)
    Maria Zhang (VP of Engineering at Tinder, Inc.)
    Robert Crovella (NVIDIA)

    2:45pm - 3:00pm Break

    3:00pm - 4:30pm Panel, Announcement and Reception

    Location: Charlotte S. & Davre R. Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center (DCC) - Vineyard Room

    Audiences: Registration Required

    Contact: Assistant to CS chair

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