Yingbin Liang (Ohio State)Nov 1, 11-12pm 293 Cory. Title and AbstractSGD Converges to Global Minimum in Deep Learning via Star-Convex Path BioDr. Yingbin Liang received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. She is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ohio State University. Dr. Liang's research interests include machine learning, statistical signal processing, optimization, information theory, and wireless communication and networks. Dr. Liang received the M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005, the Vodafone-U.S. Foundation Fellows Initiative Research Merit Award in 2005, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2009, the State of Hawaii Governor Innovation Award in 2009. Her paper received EURASIP Best Paper Award in 2014. She served as an Associate Editor for the Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory during 2013-2015 |