talks
Slides and posters from various presentations
Below are some slides from a selection of talks (research and other). There may be some small errors/typos in a few of the slides. I’ve tried to correct some of them but YMMV. If you see something egregious let me know and I’ll try to update!
Selected research talks
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[2025-08-04] An information theorist’s tour of differential privacy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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[2025-07-31] Flexible Tensor Decompositions for Learning and Optimization, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
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[2025-07-28] Are modern ML models like scientific instruments?, AICIT 2025, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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[2024-07-24] Communication against restricted adversaries: between Shannon and Hamming, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong SAR, China
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[2025-05-20] An information theorist visits differential privacy, INFORMED-AI Seminar, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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[2025-04-07] Flexible Tensor Decompositions for Learning and Optimization, IIIT-Hyderabad and IIT-Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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[2025-03-28] Flexible Tensor Decompositions for Learning and Optimization, Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University, Boston, USA
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[2025-01-16] Exploring strange neu(ral network) worlds with well-worn tools, BIRS Workshop on Machine Learning and Statistics: From Theory to Practice, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India
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[2024-07-18] Learning with Structured Tensor Decompositions, IEEE ITSOC Distinguished Lecture, Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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[2024-07-04] Computationally Efficient Codes for Adversarial Binary-Erasure Channels, Imperial College, London, UK
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[2024-04-15] Differential privacy can also enable scientific collaboration, IEEE ITSOC Distinguished Lecture, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
Posters
- [2025-04-08] Y. Tao, A.D. Sarwate, Differentially Private Distribution Estimation Using Functional Approximation, IEEE ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India
Other presentations
- [2024-09-19] Getting Into Undergraduate Research in ECE at Rutgers, Undergraduate Research Discovery Day, Rutgers University