Four new exciting papers at ICLR, CVPR, PETS, and NAACL 2024; Batu received the 2024 Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award; Delivered a plenary talk on “Building a Decentralized Cloud for Generative AI” at CISS 2024; Congratulations to nine recent professors from the lab.
Research Experience
Professor, inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning (Trusted AI), and director of the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Computer Science Department of University of Southern California.
Education
Received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2008.
Background
Dean’s Professor of ECE and CS at USC, Co-Founder and CEO of FedML, Director of USC-Amazon Center on Secure & Trusted ML, Director of vITAL Research Lab. Research areas include information theory, decentralized and federated machine learning, secure and privacy-preserving learning and computing.