Paper 'NOODL: Provable Online Dictionary Learning and Sparse Coding' published at ICLR 2019; received ICLR Travel Award
Paper 'Why do Variational Autoencoders Really Promote Disentanglement?' accepted at ICML 2024
Paper 'Are all classes created equal? Domain Generalization for Domain-Linked Classes' accepted at DistShift Workshop, NeurIPS 2023
Work on embeddings-based long-term delay forecasting to appear in Transportation Research Record
Presenting posters at NeurIPS 2024 and associated workshops (AFM, OPT, Compression, CCAI, M3L)
Background
Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at the University of Waterloo
Director of the Critical ML Lab
Cross-appointed in Systems Design Engineering and the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Holds the Val O’Donovan Endowed Chair in Efficient, Safe, and Adaptive AI in the Faculty of Engineering
Affiliated with Waterloo.AI, the Future Cities Institute (founded by CAIVAN), WISA, and the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI)
Research interests: Statistical Machine Learning, Sparse Signal Processing, Spatiotemporal Data Analysis, AI for Surgery and Healthcare, Interpretability of Deep Learning Models, Intelligent Automation and Manufacturing, Computer Vision