Congratulations to MINDS Assistant Professor Vishal M. Patel, who has won the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early-stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. More information can be found here.
Symposium Winter 2021
The 2021 MINDS Symposium on the Foundations of Data Science will be held on January 28, February 9 & February 10 virtually over Zoom. Leading data science researchers will discuss the importance of data science in their fields and the continued need for advancement. Confirmed Speakers Agenda
Prof. Laurent Younes named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Congratulations to MINDS Professor Laurent Younes, who has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, which recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. More information can be found here.
Prof. Rama Chellappa named to National Academy of Inventors
Congratulations to MINDS Bloomberg Professor Rama Chellappa, who has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a distinction that recognizes and honors academic inventors who have created or facilitated outstanding inventions that have had an impact on society. Five total Johns Hopkins faculty members were awarded the
MINDS Winter School and Workshop 2021
2021 TRIPODS Winter School & Workshop on Graph Learning and Deep Learning This event aims to bring together experts in machine learning, statistical inference and learning on graphs, and optimization to share basic principles, recent research results, and practical ideas, on the foundations of graph and deep learning. A series of tutorials
Video presentation from KHIPU 2019: the first ever Artificial Intelligence meeting held in Latin America
The first ever meeting in Latin America held on Artificial Intelligence took place in Montevideo, Uruguay in November 2019. To view a video overview of the conference please click here.
Yannis Kevrekidis named to National Academy of Engineering
Johns Hopkins chemical and biomolecular engineer Yannis Kevrekidis has been named to the National Academy of Engineering, a career distinction that recognizes the most accomplished engineers in the world. He is among 87 new members and 18 international members selected for the honor this year. Established in 1964, the NAE is made up of
MINDS awarded NSF-Simons Foundation’s Research Collaborations on the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning (MoDL)
The $10 million, five-year award titled “Collaborative Research: Transferable, Hierarchical, Expressive, Optimal, Robust, and Interpretable NETworks (THEORINET)” will support René and his team in developing a mathematical, statistical and computational framework that will explain the success of current deep network architectures, understand its pitfalls, and guide the design of novel architectures
Prof. Rama Chellappa named this year’s recipient of IEEE’s Jack S. Kirby Signal Processing Medal
Congratulations to Prof. Rama Chellappa for being named this year’s recipient of IEEE’s Jack S. Kirby Signal Processing Medal “for contributions to image and video processing, especially applications to face recognition.” The awards this year were presented in the form of short online videos honoring each recipient and their contributions. Please click
Professor Vladimir Braverman has 5 papers accepted to the International Conference on Machine Learning
A list with links to the accepted papers that will be presented at ICML 2020 follows: Schatten Norms in Matrix Streams: Hello Sparsity, Goodbye Dimension Coresets for Clustering in Graphs of Bounded Treewidth On the Noisy Gradient Descent that Generalizes as SGD FetchSGD: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning with Sketching Obtaining Adjustable Regularization