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

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 very well. There are some also really good comments at the end of the paper, which makes a quick survey of…

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 video link for this. This talk is a bit technical, since most people in the audience are experts in…

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

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

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. 

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. 

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

I visited Lehigh University, gave a talk on our new transfer learning results, and had a lot of interesting discussions

We won a MURI award from ONR to study network latency. This is a team led by Virginia Tech.  Here is the news release.  and here is the project webpage.