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Principal Investigator - Professor Ankur Mali
Professor Ankur Mali completed his Ph.D. under Professor Clyde Lee Giles from The Pennsylvania State University in 2022. He works at the intersection of language, memory, and computation—spanning natural language processing, linguistics, and formal language theory.
Furthermore, he has also designed approaches to investigate the mysterious success of deep learning in recognizing natural language from a theoretical and empirical perspective. He also works on designing learning algorithms and computational neural architectures guided by theories of the brain. These architectures focus on solving challenges such as continual/lifelong learning, learning with minimal supervision, Reinforcement Learning, and robustness (both in computer vision and natural language processing).
PhD Students
loves running, yoga and travelling
Predictive coding, Natural Language Processing
Bioinspired learning, physics-informed neural networks
Neural program synthesis, expressability & learnability
Master's Students
Natural Language Processing
Deep Learning
Undergraduate Students
Addressing challenges in neural network learnability and stability by exploring alternative algorithms to backpropagation
Evaluating learnability and stability in deep learning models by investigating alternative approaches to backpropagation and analyzing the effects of input perturbations
Incoming SWE intern at DELL Technologies
Tackling challenges in neural network learnability and stability
Investigating learnability and expressivity of neural architectures
Studying how neural architectures shape learning and function in bio-inspired systems
Alumni
PhD students
- Neisarg Dave, advised by Dr. C. Lee Giles, Dr. Dan Kifer, Dr. Ankur Mali
- Haiwen Guan, advised by Dr. C. Lee Giles and Dr. Ankur Mali
- Alex Bi, advised by Dr. Parisa Shokouhi and Dr. Ankur Mali
Graduate students
- Thejasvi Valega, advised by Dr. Parisa Shokouhi and Dr. Ankur Mali
- Sudarshan Nayak, advised by Dr. Dan Kifer, Dr. Parisa Shokouhi, and Dr. Ankur Mali
- Alfredo Fernandez, advised by Dr. Ankur Mali.
- Gerardo Wibmer, advised by Dr. Ankur Mali