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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