News
2024
- 07/2024, Our paper, “Unveiling the Power of Sparse Neural Networks for Feature Selection” has been accepted at ECAI 2024.
- 06/2024, I will be joining the IKEA AI lab as a Data Scientist as of October 2024.
- 06/2024, Our paper, “Adaptive Sparsity Level during Training for Efficient Time Series Forecasting with Transformers” has been accepted at ECML-PKDD 2024.
- 04/2024, I defended my Ph.D. thesis, “Advancing Efficiency in Neural Networks through Sparsity and Feature Selection”, on the 30th of April at 16:30 at the University of Twente.
- 01/2024, Our paper, “Supervised Feature Selection via Ensemble Gradient Information from Sparse Neural Networks” has been accepted at AISTATS 2024.
2023
- 05/2023, My doctoral consortium paper has been accepted for publication at IJCAI 2023.
- 05/2023, our tutorial “T27: Sparse Training for Supervised, Unsupervised, Continual, and Deep Reinforcement Learning with Deep Neural Networks” has been accepted at IJCAI 2023.
- 05/2023, We organized ICLR 2023 Workshop on Sparsity in Neural Networks in Kigali, Rwanda on May 5th 2023.
- 04/2023, I have been accepted for a 3-month Ph.D. internship at Booking.com starting from July 2023.
- 03/2023, I gave a talk at TrustML Young Scientist Seminars organized by the RIKEN-AIP center on “Learning Efficiently from Data using Sparse Neural Networks” (Link).
- 01/2023, I’ve started my research visit at the University of Cambridge, van der Schaar Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mihaela van der Schaar
- 01/2023, Our paper, “Supervised Feature Selection with Neuron Evolution in Sparse Neural Networks” has been accepted at TMLR journal (OpenReview, code).
2022
- 09/2022, Our paper, “Where to pay attention in sparse training for feature selection? “ has been accepted at NeurIPS 2022 (OpenReview).
- 07/2022, Our paper, “A Brain-inspired Algorithm for Training Highly Sparse Neural Networks” got accepted for publication in Machine Learning Journal (ECML-PKDD 2022 journal track). Find more information here. (paper, code)
- 06/2022, My application for joining (IJCAI 2022) as an student volunteer has been accepted.
- 04/2022, our tutorial “Sparse Neural Networks Training” has been accepted at ECMLPKDD 2022 conference. Find more information here.
- 02/2022, I’ve been accepted as a Student Visitor at the University of Cambridge, van der Schaar Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mihaela van der Schaar. This 3-month research visit will be starting on the 1st of September 2022.
- 01/2022, Our paper, “Deep Ensembling with No Overhead for either Training or Testing: The All-Round Blessings of Dynamic Sparsity” has been accepted at ICLR 2022. To find more information check here.
2021
- 10/2021, our paper “Quick and Robust Feature Selection: the Strength of Energy-efficient Sparse Training for Autoencoders (Extended Abstract)”, has been accepted for inclusion in the BNAIC conference program.
- 09/2021, Our paper, “Sparse Training via Boosting Pruning Plasticity with Neuroregeneration” has been accepted at NeurIPS 2021. Find more information here.
- 09/2021, I participated in ACM womENcourage 2021 (Certificate) as a student volunteer and also presented a poster. You can find the poster here and the corresponding extended abstract here.
- 08/2021, I attended Oxford Machine Learning Summer School 2021 (Certificate).
- 07/2021, Our manuscript, “Quick and Robust Feature Selection: the Strength of Energy-efficient Sparse Training for Autoencoders” has been accepted for publication in the Machine Learning Journal (ECML-PKDD 2022 journal track). Find more information here.
- 07/2021, My application for joining (IJCAI 2021) as an student volunteer has been accepted.
- 07/2021, Our paper, “Quick and Robust Feature Selection: the Strength of Energy-efficient Sparse Training for Autoencoders”, has been accepted in Sparse Neural Network Workshop 2021. Check the poster here.
- 06/2021, My doctoral consortium has been accepted for presentation at IJCAI 2021. You can find the poster here.
- 06/2021, I have been accepted for Oxford Machine Learning Summer School 2021 (acceptance rate: 15%).
- 06/2021, I have received scholarship for the 8th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing (womENcourage 2021).
2020
- 05/2020, I have moved to the University of Twente together with Dr. Decebal Mocanu, my Ph.D. supervisor, to continue my Ph.D at the University of Twente (UT). My Ph.D. is funded by the (NWO EDIC) project and the University of Twente.
2019
- 10/2019, I have started my Ph.D. at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). My Ph.D. is funded by the (NWO EDIC) project and the Eindhoven University of Technology.
