• Simon's institute (Fall 2021): organizing a reading group on the Mean-Field description of neural networks (link). (Handwritten notes).

• Teaching assistant at the Deep Learning Theory Summer School, Princeton, summer 2021 (link).

  • Session 1: Implicit regularization (handwritten notes).

  • Session 2: Benign overfitting (handwritten notes).

  • Session 3: Going beyond the linear regime (handwritten notes).

  • Lecture notes: An introduction to the analysis of linearized neural networks with A. Montanari (link soon).

• NSF collaboration reading group: handwritten notes on breaking the curse of dimensionality with neural networks.

• EE375: handwritten notes on generalization error of random features models.

• Teaching assistant in the Statistics Department, Stanford (2017-2022)

  • STATS 310A: Theory of Probability I (Fall 2021).

  • MATH 20: Introduction to calculus (Summer 2021).

  • STATS 375: Mathematical problems in Machine Learning (Spring 2021).

  • STATS 300C: Theory of statistics III (Spring 2021).

  • STATS 216: Introduction to Statistical Learning (Winter 2021).

  • STATS 200: Introduction to Statistical Inference (Fall 2020, Winter 2018).

  • STATS 116: Theory of Probability (Spring 2020, Fall 2018).

  • STATS 221: Random Processes on Graphs and Lattices (Winter 2020).

  • STATS 110: Statistical Methods in Engineering and the Physical Sciences (Fall 2019).

  • STATS 310C: Theory of Probability III (Spring 2019).

  • STATS 202: Data Mining and Analysis (Summer 2018).

  • STATS 101: Data Science 101 (Fall 2017).

Talks

• TBA, “Optimal Transport, Mean-Field Models, and Machine Learning” at TUM-IAS Munich, Germany (April 2023).

• Learning with convolution and pooling operations in kernel methods, NeurIPS 2022 (December 2022).

• Math and Data seminar, Center for Data Science and Courant Institute, NYU (November 2022).

• ML theory seminar (alg-ml) at Princeton (November 2022).

• Learning Sparse functions with SGD on neural networks, Informs 2022, Topics in Theory of Neural Networks (October 2022).

• Computational aspects of learning sparse functions with neural networks, Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) Colloquium, Stanford (October 2022).

• Breaking the curse of dimensionality with neural networks, External FLAIR seminar, EPFL (September 2022). Slides.

• The merged-staircase property: a necessary and nearly sufficient condition for SGD learning of sparse functions on two-layer neural networks, COLT 2022 (July 2022). With the amazing Enric Boix-Adsera. Slides.

• Learning sparse functions in the mean-field regime, Learning: Optimization and Stochastics (Summer Research Institute 2022), EPFL (June 2022). Slides.

• When do neural networks outperform kernel methods? Are kernel methods doomed?, ELLIS reading group on Mathematics of Deep Learning (June 2022). Slides.

• Tutorial: Benign Overfitting, Double Descent and RKHS ridge regression made easy!, New Interactions Between Statistics and Optimization workshop, BIRS, Banff (May 2022). Slides.

• Learning staircases: deep learning takes a staircase to heaven, Deep Learning Theory Symposium workshop, Simons Institute, Berkeley (December 2021). Video.

• Mean-Field description of two-layers neural networks, Simons Institute, Berkeley (October 2021). Workshop Dynamics and Discretization: PDEs, Sampling, and Optimization, part of the program Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling. Video. Slides.

• Learning with invariances in random features and kernel models. Conference of Learning Theory (August 2021). Video. Slides. Poster.

• Minimum Complexity Interpolation in Random Features Models. Youth in High-Dimensions, Trieste (June 2021). Video. Slides.

• Learning structured data with random features and kernel methods. ML lunch, Stanford (April 2021). Slides.

• Learning structured data with random features and kernel methods. NSF-Simons Journal Club (April 2021).

• When Do Neural Networks Outperform Kernel Methods? G-Research (February 2021).

• When Do Neural Networks Outperform Kernel Methods? NeurIPS 2020. Video. Poster.

• ML Foundations seminar, Microsoft Research (November 2020).

• MoDL (NSF collaboration) (October 2020).

• Limitations of Lazy-Training in two-layers neural networks. NeurIPS 2019. Slides. Poster.