Friday, February 16, 2024 - 3:00pm
Event Calendar Category
Other LIDS Events
Speaker Name
Weiyu Xu
Affiliation
University of Iowa
Building and Room Number
32-D677
Abstract
In supervised learning, neural network based classifiers have been observed to be fragile under adversarial attacks. In this talk, we present an information-theoretic and then a matrix-theoretic explanation for this phenomenon.
Biography
Weiyu Xu received his B.E. in Information Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2002, and a M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2005. He received a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2006 and 2009 from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), with a minor in Applied and Computational Mathematics.
He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa. His research interests are signal processing, optimization, and high dimensional data analytics.