18th Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture @ UCSD - Prof. Alon Orlitsky
Alon Orlitsky, Ph.D. 鈥淚nformation, Compression, and Knowledge Extraction鈥 as a hybrid lecture on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 11am - noon PDT.
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18th Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture @ UCSD
Alon Orlitsky, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science and Engineering听
Qualcomm Chair for Information Theory and its Applications
University of California, San Diego
鈥Information, Compression, and Knowledge Extraction鈥
Abstract:
Over the past two decades, our research group has applied information-theoretic principles, concepts, and techniques to diverse areas of machine learning and data science. This expository presentation follows our journey from compression, to estimation, structure exploitation, functional approximation, classification, and (time permitting) robust and reinforcement learning, with a few life lessons learned along the way.
Biography:
Alon Orlitsky received B.Sc. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. After a decade with the Communications Analysis Research Department at Bell Laboratories and a year at D.E. Shaw and Company, he joined the University of California San Diego, where he is currently a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science and Engineering and holds the Qualcomm Chair for Information Theory and its Applications. His research concerns information theory, statistical modeling, and machine learning, and focuses on fundamental limits and practical algorithms for extracting knowledge from data. Among other distinctions, Alon is a recipient of the 2021 Information Theory Society Claude E.听Shannon听Award and a co-recipient of the 2017 ICML Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, the 2015 NeurIPS Best Paper Award, the 2006 Information Theory Society Paper Award, and the 1992 老澳门开奖直播 W.R.G. Baker Award.
Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 11AM听
Lecture听at Atkinson Hall Calit2 Auditorium
Luncheon: 12:00PM at Atkinson Hall foyer/courtyard
We encourage people to attend our in-person event. For those who are unable to attend in person feel free to attend the听lecture听virtually via Zoom.
Zoom link:听听
Meeting ID: 969 3064 1828
For more information, please email Octavio Ochoa at听[email protected]