AAAI-20: Program Committee member
This year I am also serving as a reviewer for the AAAI conference, which will take place in February in New-York. See the official website for more details https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20/#.
My sessions at ICCCOPT
I was at the ICCOPT conference in Berlin from 5 to 8 August as the chair of 3 sessions: 2 on variational inequality/minimax/GANs and 1 on non-smooth optimization.
I am at Simons Institute from 15 to 18 July
From 15 to 18 July I’m attending the Frontiers of Deep Learning workshop at Simons Insitute.
I visited Matthias Ehrhardt at Bath University
From 17 to 28 June I visited Matthias Ehrhardt.
I was at ICML 2019 presenting the work I did at Amazon
Our work on time series was accepted as a poster to the Time Series Workshop at ICML and I presented it together with Federico Vaggi.
I am a member of the program committee for NeurIPS and UAI 2019
After a successful round of reviews for ICML I was invited to serve on committee for two more important ML conferences.
I'm visiting Martin Jaggi from 18 February to 15 March
I will be at EPFL, visiting the Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory led by Martin Jaggi.
Our group photo
Excluding visitors, we have 6 PhD students and 3 postdocs. The photo is taken just a couple of days ago at KAUST.
I am a program committee member for ICML 2019!
I was asked to be a reviewer at ICML next year, and I was happy to accept.
Prize winner at IEEEXtreme
On 20 October Alibek Sailanbayev and I got ranked 71st out of >4000 teams worldwide in the IEEEXtreme competition.