Foundations of Data Science and Machine Learning at UCD4IDS

This workshop is organized by the UC Davis Institute of Data Science (UCD4IDS).
The event will take place on Monday, 9/23/2024 and Tuesday, 9/24/2024. We will have several excellent speakers,
a poster session, and panel discussion on the future of the field. We aim to highlight recent exciting work
and future directions in a relaxed atmosphere. UCD4IDS main goal has always been to create community and
promote collaboration and we hope this event will foster that.

ALL lectures will take place at auditorium PSEL 1025
The new name of the building is Physical and Data Sciences Building (PDSB)

Click on titles below to see abstract of presentations (abstracts of posters pleas click on POSTER SESSION links

Event Program MONDAY 9/23

  • 12:50pm Opening

  • 1:00pm-1:50pm speaker: Thomas Strohmer (UC Davis)
    Towards Fairness in Machine Learning via Optimal Transport

  • 2:00pm-2:50pm speaker: Dustin Mixon (Ohio State)
    Bilipschitz invariants

  • COFFEE BREAK

  • 3:30pm-4:20pm speaker: Gal Mishne (UC San Diego)
    Low Distortion Embedding with Bottom-up Manifold Learning

  • 4:30am-6:00pm RECEPTION and POSTER SESSION

    Event Program TUESDAY 9/24

  • COFFEE 9:00am

  • 9:30am-10:20pm speaker: Junwei Lu (Harvard)
    Ranking Inference for Human Feedback Tuning in Large Language Models

  • 10:30am-11:20am speaker: Krishna Balasubramanian (UC Davis)
    Gradient-based Learning and In-context Learning for Instrumental Variable Regression

  • BREAK

  • 12:00pm-12:50pm speaker: Xin Liu (UC Davis)
    Machine Learning in Time Series Data: From Healthcare Applications to Explainability

  • LUNCH (on site) and POSTER SESSION

  • 2:30pm-3:30pm speaker: Yubei Chen (UC Davis)
    Seeking the principles of unsupervised representation learning

  • COFFEE BREAK

  • 3:45pm-5:00pm PANEL DISCUSSION
    Topic: Reflections on the future of Data Science/ML Research and Education

    Modelator: Naoki Saito (UC Davis)

    Panelists: Chen-Nee Chuah (UC Davis); Gal Mishne (UC San Diego); Patrice Koehl (UC Davis); Thomas Lee (UC Davis); Junwei Lu (Harvard)

  • 5:00pm Concluding remarks

    IMPORTANT NOTE : Everyone is welcome and there is no fee to attend the workshop,
    but we do ask you to register if you plan to attend. Please note space is limited and registration has been closed now.

    Students please write the title of your posters in the registration form
    Here you can find registration link accessible via your ucdavis account. Please register by 09/03/2024

    Any questions? Ask the organizers: Naoki Saito and Jesus De Loera (nsaito@ucdavis.edu, jadeloera@ucdavis.edu).