Events Calendar

USC Machine Learning Retreat

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