TTIC Student Workshop

November 10, 2017
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Update: Awards

Congratulations to the award winners!

Best Talk Award: Chip Schaff, "Jointly Learning Design and Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning"
Best Talk Runner-up: Blake Woodworth, "Learning Non-Discriminatory Predictors"

Best Poster Award: Andrea Daniele, "A Multiview Approach to Learning Articulated Motion Models"

The workshop will take place on the 5th floor at TTIC. Talks and panel will be in room 526. Posters, refreshments, and awards will be in the 5th floor common area. Short talk slots will be 20 minutes long: 15 min talk, 4 min questions, 1 min turnover. Long talk slots will be 30 minutes long: 25 min talk, 4 min questions, 1 min turnover. There will be awards for the best poster and best talk.

Organizing Committee: Chrissy Novak, Karen Livescu, Madhur Tulsiani
Talk Award Committee: Julia Chuzhoy, Kevin Gimpel, Michael Maire
Poster Award Committee: Srinadh Bhojanapalli, Mesrob Ohannessian, Jian Peng

Schedule

09:00-09:30	Breakfast refreshments
09:30-10:30	Keynote talk: Jian Peng, UIUC (TTIC PhD 2013)	Towards sample-efficient (deep) policy optimization
10:30-11:30	Poster session:
	Bowen Shi	Multitask training with unlabeled data for end-to-end sign language fingerspelling recognition
	Ruotian Luo	Comprehension-guided referring expressions
	Rachit Nimavat	Almost Polynomial Hardness of Node-Disjoint Paths in Grids
	Andrea F. Daniele	A Multiview Approach to Learning Articulated Motion Models
	Takeshi Onishi	A proposal for weakly supervised learning to represent text with open domain relational graphs
	Qingming Tang	Acoustic Feature Learning using Articulatory Measurements
	Nicholas Kolkin	A Hierarchical Image Prior for Solving General Inverse Problems
	Siqi Sun	Learning structured densities via infinite dimensional exponential families

11:30-12:20	Talk session 1 (Chair: Suriya Gunasekar)
11:30-12:00	Chip Schaff	Jointly Learning Design and Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning
12:00-12:20	Shubham Toshniwal	End-to-End Multilingual Speech Recognition using Encoder-Decoder Models
12:20-13:30	Lunch + poster session (same posters)
13:30-14:50	Talk session 2 (Chair: Suriya Gunasekar)
13:30-14:00	Shubhendu Trivedi	Steerable Message Passing Neural Networks for Graphs
14:00-14:30	Mrinalkanti Ghosh	Polynomial Optimization over Unit Sphere
14:30-14:50	Blake Woodworth	Learning Non-Discriminatory Predictors
14:50-15:20	Break + refreshments
15:20-15:30	Awards
15:30-whenever	Alumni + faculty panel: Avrim Blum, Karen Livescu, Jian Peng, Karl Stratos, Ben Zhao