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Jan 22, 2025 📢 Our paper, Exploring the Impact of Activation Functions in Training Neural ODEs, has been accepted to ICLR2025 as an oral presentation (1.8% acceptance rate)!
🔍 Key Highlights:
  • We establish the global convergence of neural ODEs by analyzing their training dynamics.
  • Smoothness & nonlinearity of activation functions are the secret sauce—not only ensuring convergence but also accelerating training.
  • Surprisingly, for large-scale neural ODEs, fixed-step solvers can be more efficient than adaptive solvers!
Looking forward to presenting and discussing these insights at ICLR 2025 in Singapore! 🚀
Dec 21, 2024 🎉 Excited to share that all my master’s students—Nishant Singh, Jagriti Suneja, and Mohammed Azeezulla—have each received prestigious Graduate Research Assistant Program (GRAP) Award from DePaul CDM! Congratulations to all of them for their hard work and dedication!
Oct 18, 2024 💡 Excited to share that I gave a talk on “Building Your Own Customized GPT Teaching Assistant for ‘Free’” at the AI in Teaching Symposium held by DePaul AI Institute! 📚✨ You can check out the recording here.📺
Oct 10, 2024 📢 I’m happy to be invited at the Math Colloquium hosted by the Department of Mathematical Sciences at DePaul University.
  • 🗓️ Date: Friday, November 1, 2024
  • ⏰ Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
  • 📍 Location: Arts & Letters Hall, Room 207
  • 🎙️ Topic: “Learnability in Infinite-Depth Neural Networks: Overparameterization and the Role of Gaussian Processes”
I look forward to sharing insights and sparking engaging discussions! See you there! 🚀
Sep 15, 2024 📢 Thrilled to announce my new AI course, Deep Generative Models, is officially approved! Debuting as CSC 594: Topics in Artificial Intelligence in Spring 2025, this course will cover:
  • Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)
  • Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
  • Autoregressive Models
  • Normalizing Flows
  • Energy-Based Models
  • Score-Based/Diffusion/Flow Matching Models
Jul 01, 2024 🚀Thrilled to join the School of Computing at DePaul University as an Assistant Professor!