Samet Oymak
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Samet Oymak Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Riverside Office: Multidisciplinary Research Building (MRB1) 169 Aberdeen Dr, Riverside, CA 92507 Email: lastname (at) ece (dot) ucr (dot) edu |
I am an Assistant Professor of ECE at UC Riverside. I received my PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2015.
My research lies at the confluence of machine learning, optimization, and statistics.
I am broadly interested in finding principled solutions to contemporary ML problems by using tools from optimization and statistics.
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Current focus: Foundations of learning & decision making via efficient models, algorithms, representations. Current topics: heterogeneous data, reinforcement learning, autoML & model compression, deep learning theory. Prospective PhDs: Research experience in ML and solid background on optimization/statistics is important. Undergraduates: Basic Python knowledge is necessary. Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow is a plus. Postdoc opening: We are looking for a postdoc at the intersection of reinforcement learning, control and networks. |
News
01/2022 Our paper on “Non-asymptotic and accurate learning of nonlinear dynamical systems” is accepted to JMLR.
01/2022 ML workshop at RoseHack 2021 on “Challenges & Opportunities in Machine Learning”.
01/2022 New preprint “Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Linear Bandits”.
12/2021 Seminar on “Principles of Efficient & Fair Learning with Overparameterization” at the USC ML Symposium.
11/2021 New preprint on Adaptive Control of Markov Jump Systems.
10/2021 3 papers are accepted to NeurIPS 2021! Congrats to my students Mingchen, Xuechen, Ibrahim and all collaborators!
‘‘AutoBalance: Optimized Loss Functions for Imbalanced Data’’, M. Li, X. Zhang, C. Thrampoulidis, J. Chen, S. Oymak.
‘‘Label-Imbalanced and Group-Sensitive Classification under Overparameterization’’, GR Kini, O. Paraskevas, S. Oymak, C. Thrampoulidis.
‘‘Towards Sample-Efficient Overparameterized Meta-Learning’’, Y. Sun, A. Narang, HI Gulluk, S. Oymak, M. Fazel.
Fall 2021 Excited about my new course: “EE/CS 248: Optimization for Machine Learning”
09/2021 Our new work extends confidence calibration to general performance metrics and new application settings.
08/2021 Our paper on Augmenting Geographically Weighted Regression is accepted to SIGSPATIAL as a full paper.
08/2021 Seminar on our work on architecture search at Stanford Statistics.
08/2021 Our note on super-convergence with large cyclical learning rates is accepted to IEEE Signal Processing Letters!
07/2021 Our MURI proposal on Understanding neuro-glial dynamics for robust non-Markovian learning is funded!
06/2021 Three papers will be presented at RL Theory and Overparameterization Workshops at ICML.
05/2021 I am giving seminars on our recent work at EPFL, Uppsala University, and University of Iowa.
05/2021 New preprint on Certainty Equivalent Quadratic Control for Markov Jump Systems.
04/2021 Our paper on Generalization Guarantees for Neural Architecture Search will appear at ICML 2021.
04/2021 Three papers are presented in TOPML workshop.
04/2021 Our paper on Unsupervised Domain Adaptation is now available (CVPR 2021 oral).
02/2021 New preprint on learning from imbalanced data with Chris’ group.
01/2021 Our paper on RL chatbots with Hristidis group received the Best Student Paper Award at ICSC 2021.
01/2021 Received the NSF CAREER award!
01/2021 Our paper on semisupervised learning theory is accepted to AISTATS 2021.
01/2021 Two paper accepted to ICASSP 2021.
12/2020 Our paper on Provable Benefits of Overparameterization in Model Compression is accepted to AAAI 2021!
11/2020 Our paper on Matrix Profile is accepted to Machine Learning for Systems Workshop at NeurIPS 2020.
09/2020 Our paper on multiclass learning (with Chris and Mahdi) is accepted to NeurIPS 2020!
08/2020 Received UCR's Regents Faculty Fellowship.
06/2020 New preprint on pruning neural networks with Mingchen, Yahya, Chris.
05/2020 Our system identification work with Yue and Maryam is accepted to L4DC as an oral presentation!
04/2020 Our paper on neural net optimization theory is accepted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Info Theory.
03/2020 Paper accepted to ICDCS in collaboration with Jiasi and Srikanth.
02/2020 New paper on calibrating heterogenous datasets.
02/2020 New paper on nonlinear system identification.
01/2020 Our paper is accepted to Transactions on Signal Processing.
01/2020 NSF funded our proposal on Cyber-Physical System Safety!