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I'm {Gif, Ghifar, Ghifary}, currently a PhD student in ECS VUW, New Zealand, since 2013, under the supervision of Prof. Bastiaan Kleijn and Prof. Mengjie Zhang. My research interest is to build solutions for robust visual object recognition problems using Machine Learning both in practical and theoretical aspects. My current works involve

• Deep Learning/Neural Networks,

• Transfer Learning,

• Domain Adaptation/Generalization,

• Sparse Coding,

• Kernel Methods,

• Dimensionality Reduction, (e.g. PCA, LDA, ICA), and

• Differential Geometry.

I spent my memorable 5-year undergraduate and master studies in School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, from 2005 to 2010. Before starting my PhD, I was a lecturer, researcher, programmer/software engineer, and sometime an amateur musician. Now I'm also a father of one daughter.

See my complete CV here.