Job title:
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department:
Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology
Bio/CV:
Amir Gholami is a postdoctoral research fellow in BAIR Lab. He received his PhD from UT Austin, working on bio-physics based image analysis, a research topic which received UT Austin’s best doctoral dissertation award in 2018. He is a Melosh Medal finalist, recipient of best student paper award in SC'17, Gold Medal in the ACM Student Research Competition, as well as best student paper finalist in SC’14.
Research interests:
Large scale training of Neural Networks
Stochastic second-order methods
Robust optimization.
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