Guest lecture by Zhirong Yang

We start up the semester with a lecture on machine learning by Dr. Zhirong Yang this Thursday, August 17. at 1415, Store Auditorium (2nd. floor)

Zhirong Yang is one of the top-ranked applicants for a permanent faculty job at the department. He is currently employed at Aalto University, Finland

• Title:   Learning Data Representation by Large-Scale Neighbor Embedding
• Abstract:   Machine learning has been increasingly influencing our life. Encoding data in a suitable vector space is the fundamental starting point for machine learning. We are developing a family of unsupervised methods called large-scale Neighbor Embedding (NE) for accurate and efficient the vector coding. Besides generic feature extraction, our project also delivers two important tools as special cases of NE for data visualization and cluster analysis. Because neighborhood information is often naturally and massively, our method has wide applications as a critical component in many areas.

All are welcome!