• Optimization for ML and AI Seminar with Tengyu Ma (Stanford)

    HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

    Title and abstract TBA... Tengyu Ma is an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. His research interests broadly include topics in machine learning, algorithms and their theory, such as deep learning, (deep) reinforcement learning, pre-training / foundation models, robustness, non-convex optimization, distributed optimization, and high-dimensional statistics. Zoom: https://bit.ly/Opt-AI-ML

  • Optimization for ML and AI Seminar with Yang Zheng (UC San Diego)

    HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

    Title and abstract TBA... Yang Zheng is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, and is affiliated with the department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Contextual Robotics Institute. From March 2019 to August 2020, Dr. Zheng was a postdoctoral scholar in SEAS and CGBC at Harvard University, working […]

  • Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: (De)regularized Wasserstein Gradient Flows via Reproducing Kernels

    HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

    Bharath Sriperumbudur, Pennsylvania State University Abstract: TBA Bharath Sriperumbudur is a professor in the Department of Statistics (with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mathematics) at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include non-parametric statistics, machine learning, statistical learning theory, optimal transport and gradient flows, regularization and inverse problems, reproducing kernel spaces in […]

  • Optimization for ML and AI Seminar with Yuejie Chi (Yale)

    HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

    Title and abstract TBA... Yuejie Chi is the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University, with a secondary appointment in Computer Science, and a member of the Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science. Before joining Yale, Dr. Chi was the Sense of Wonder Group Endowed Professor […]

  • Optimization for ML and AI Seminar with Andre Wibisono (Yale)

    HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

    Title and abstract TBA... Andre Wibisono is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Statistics & Data Science. His research interests are in the design and analysis of algorithms for machine learning, in particular for problems in optimization, sampling, and game theory. […]

  • ICLR 2026 Workshop: Principled Design for Trustworthy AI – Interpretability, Robustness, and Safety across Modalities

    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

    Modern AI systems, particularly large language models, vision-language models, and deep vision networks, are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings such as healthcare, autonomous driving, and legal decisions. Yet, their lack of transparency, fragility to distributional shifts between train/test environments, and representation misalignment in emerging tasks and data/feature modalities raise serious concerns about their trustworthiness. This […]