Modern Trends in Nonconvex Optimization for Machine Learning

ORGANIZERS:

• Anima Anandkumar (Caltech)
• Leon Bottou (Facebook)
• Chi Jin (UC Berkeley)
• Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley)
• Hossein Mobahi (Google)
• Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

• Kumar Agrawal (Google)
• Brian Bullins (Princeton)
• Pratik Chaudhari (UCLA)
• Yuan Deng (Duke)
• Simon Du (CMU)
• Oliver Hinder (Stanford)
• Xiangru Huang (U Texas)
• Jaehoon Lee (Google)
• Yuanzhi Li (Princeton )
• Lydia T. Liu (UC Berkeley)
• Anirbit Mukherjee (JHU)
• Lam Nguyen (Lehigh)
• Qing Qu (Columbia)
• Hanie Sedghi (Google)
• Mahdi Soltanolkotabi (USC)
• Ju Sun (Stanford)
• Yue Sun (U Washington)
• Nilesh Tripuraneni (UC Berkeley)
• Stephen Tu (UC Berkeley)
• Zhaoran Wang (Northwest)
• Lechao Xiao (Google)
• Yang Yuan (Cornell)

SPECIAL THANKS:

• Jiaqi Xiao (UNC)