Yin Tat Lee (coPI) named 2020 Sloan Research Fellows
ADSI coPI, Yin Tat Lee, have been named 2020 Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The program recognizes early-career scientists in the United States and Canada who are nominated and judged by their peers based on their creativity, leadership, and achievements in research.
Corinne Jones won the ASA Statistical Computing Award
Corinne Jones won the 2020 Chambers Student Paper Award from the ASA Statistical Computing Section, for her paper "End-to-end Learning, with or without Labels”.
Talk Announcement
Upcoming talk at UW by Steffen Grunewalder. Steffen will be visiting From Jan 21 to Feb 1 as part of the ADSI Visiting Faculty Program. During his visit, Steffen will be giving a ML lunch seminar on Thurs Jan 23rd at noon.
Talk Announcement
Upcoming talks at UW by Stéphane Mallat. Hosted by Prof Les Atlas and PI Maryam Fazel, Stéphane will be visiting on Tuesday December 3rd. During his visit, Stéphane will give two talks. The first talk is the ECE colloquium titled Interpretable Deep Networks for Classification, Generation and Physics. The second talk is the ECE Lytle Lecture titled Mathematical Mysteries of Deep Neural Networks. Details can be found here.
Talk Announcement
Upcoming talk at UW by Marco Cuturi. Marco will be visiting on Tuesday November 19th as part of the ADSI Visiting Faculty Program. During his visit, Marco will be giving an ADSI Distinguished Lecture on Computational Optimal Transport. Details can be found here.
Promotion News
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy (Math), Zaid Harchaoui (Statistics) have been promoted to Associate Professor and Maryam Fazel (ECE) has been promoted to full Professor.
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy receives the INFORMS Young Researcher Prize
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy and Damek Davis (Cornell) are the joint recipients of the 2019 INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers for their outstanding paper in optimization.
Summer Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Learning and Control
A 3-day Summer Workshop on Learning and Control organized by ADSI. It includes 13 talks and 2 panel sessions.
Summer School on Foundations of Data Science
A 5-day Summer School on Foundations of Data Science organized by ADSI. 65 graduate students and postdocs from different schools joined.
Announcing the ADSI Workshop on Learning and Control
ADSI is pleased to announce a workshop on learning and control to be hosted at the University of Washington in August 2019. The program includes a distinguished panel of speakers bridging a diverse collection of perspectives at the forefront of these topics.
Announcing the 2019 ADSI Summer School
ADSI is pleased to announce a summer school to be hosted at the University of Washington in August 2019. The program will offer a platform for leading experts to communicate recent advances, educate participating students, and build connections between diverse areas of data science.
Yin Tat Lee receives Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
ADSI coPI, Yin Tat Lee, has been named a 2019 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow. Since 2005, Microsoft has used its Faculty Fellowship program to recognize promising, early-career researchers whose exceptional research talent makes them emerging leaders in their fields.
Yin Tat Lee (coPI) wins the Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2018
ADSI coPI, Yin Tat Lee, along with his co-authors, has won the Best Paper Award at the prestigious Machine Learning conference, NeurIPS 2018, for their contribution to distributed optimization.
Talk Announcement
Upcoming talk at UW by Prof. Francis Bach. Francis Bach will be visiting the week of Nov. 5, 2018, as part of the ADSI Distinguished Visiting Faculty Program. During his visit, Francis will be giving i) an ADSI Advanced Lecture on stochastic gradient descent, and ii) an ADSI Distinguished Lecture on machine learning research.
Three new NSF TRIPODS+X awards won by ADSI PIs
ADSI PIs win three new NSF TRIPODS+X awards, including two research grants and one educational grant.
Yin Tat Lee (coPI) wins the Tucker Prize, and Thomas Rothvoss (affiliate member) wins the Fulkerson prize
ADSI coPI, Yin Tat Lee, and ADSI affiliate member, Thomas Rothvoss, recognized for their contributions to mathematical optimization
Talk Announcement
Upcoming CORE Seminar talk at UW by Prof. Yurii Nesterov
Yin Tat Lee wins 2018 NSF CAREER Award
Yin Tat Lee selected for the 2018 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program
Simons Workshop on Fast Iterative Methods in Optimization
An optimization workshop co-organized by ADSI PI
NSF Tripods Award
UW faculty win NSF Tripods Award to establish a new institute advancing Algorithms for Data Science