I gave a keynote about about "Beyond Conventional Boundaries: RL’s Leap in Solving Optimization Problems" at the AAAI 2024 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Operations Research at Vancouver, Canada.

Starting Fall 2021 I moved to MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi, UAE. If you want to join me at MBZUAI I have multiple openings in my research lab.

My PhD student Majid Jahani defended his Ph.D. dissertation. His doctoral committee members included Prof. Luis Nunes Vicente, Prof. Frank E. Curtis, Prof. Katya Scheinberg, Prof. Aryan Mokhtari, and Prof. Albert S. Berahas and of couse me.

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Video from my presentation "Image Classification using Deep Reinforcement Learning" is here .

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I had an oportunity to discuss about the fugure of AI with Prof. Farkašom and Vladimír Šucha (Director-General of the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission\'s science and knowledge service) here .

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A video explaining our recent paper by is available here .

I am extremely happy to inform that Lam has won the 2019 P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science Elizabeth V. Stout Dissertation Award. The title of his thesis was "A Service System with On-Demand Agents, Stochastic Gradient Algorithms and the SARAH Algorithm".

The prize was awarded today at the Rossin College Award Ceremony: "Educational Excellence - This award recognizes a Rossin College faculty member who has demonstrated effective teaching AND/OR enhanced the student learning experience by introducing innovative teaching methods into the classroom AND shows an outstanding commitment to the success of their students." https://engineering.lehigh.edu/news/article/rossin-awards-celebrate-excellence-across-lehighs-engineering-college

With Albert S. Berahas and Majid Jahani we posted a new paper about Sampled Quasi-Newton method for training Deep Neural Networks! arxiv