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TBSI Workshop on Learning Theory
Tue, 07/16/2019

I had a keynote at the workshop on learning theory at TBSI, Shenzhen, China. Showed some of our new results in transfer learning. 

CWIT 2019
Wed, 06/05/2019

I attended Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT), at McMaster University, to give a plenary talk. The event is very well organized. I wish we have a small and well connected organization like this in the US, or just on the east coast. 

Bayesian Information Criterion
Wed, 05/22/2019

After a long time, I finally wrote a wikipage on Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), using our favoriate local geometric approach, which hopefully answers some questions that have bothered us. 

ICNC
Thu, 02/21/2019

I delivered a Keynote at IEEE ICNC 2019, in Hawaii. 

Tensor SVD
Sat, 02/16/2019

I just read this paper on Tensor SVD, which I liked very much. 

BIRS Workshop
Wed, 10/31/2018

I attended the BIRS workshop on Intersection between Information theory and Signal Processing, and delivered a keynote talk titled "Universal Features in Inference and Learning".  Thanks to the wonderful facilities in Banff, there is actually a...

B-Spline
Thu, 08/30/2018

I read this paper about B-spline and a simple way to adjust the smoothness of the resulting function. It is really neat. I wrote some little programs to try this out and it works...

China Trip
Sat, 07/28/2018

I visited several institutes in China, and had a talk titled "Connecting Data with Domain Knowledge". The slides can be found here 

Keynote at FFSE 2018
Tue, 05/29/2018

I had a keynote at FFSE-2018, the slides can be found here.

Visited Stanford
Thu, 05/10/2018

I had a very good discussion with David Tse, which lead to some new research topics.