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<div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">Amin Karbasi </b></span></div>
<div class=""><b class="">Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Statistics & Data Science</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">Yale University</b></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Thursday, February 24th </b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">2:00pm - 3:00pm</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">In Person: John Crerar Library 390</b></div>
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<div class=""><b class=""><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/91972158516?pwd=dmRseXIzSnpXMHB4bGZlZHRITUZidz09" class="">https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/91972158516?pwd=dmRseXIzSnpXMHB4bGZlZHRITUZidz09</a></b></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Meeting ID: 919 7215 8516</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">Passcode: 765781</b></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Abstract:</b></div>
<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Consider the task of learning an unknown concept from a given concept class; to what extent does interacting
with a domain expert accelerate the learning process? It turns out the answer is hidden in a better understanding of the infinite two-player games and who has a winning strategy. So, if you like game theory and statistical learning, then this talk is for you. </span></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Bio:</b></div>
<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Amin Karbasi is currently an associate professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Statistics & Data Science at Yale University. He is also a staff scientist at Google NY. He has been
the recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, National Academy of Engineering
Grainger Award, Amazon Research Award, Nokia Bell-Labs Award, Google Faculty Research Award, Microsoft Azure Research Award, Simons Research Fellowship, and ETH Research Fellowship. His work has also been recognized with a number of paper awards, including </span><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40);" class="">Graphs
in Biomedical Image Analysis (GRAIL),</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Conference (MICCAI), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), IEEE
ComSoc Data Storage, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), ACM SIGMETRICS, and IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). His Ph.D. thesis received the Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize from the School
of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland.</span></div>
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<div>Holly Santos<br class="">
Executive Assistant to Michael J. Franklin, Chairman<br class="">
Department of Computer Science<br class="">
The University of Chicago<br class="">
5730 S Ellis Ave-217 Chicago, IL 60637<br class="">
P: 773-834-8977<br class="">
<a href="mailto:hsantos@uchicago.edu" class="">hsantos@uchicago.edu</a></div>
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