About me

I am currently an IFDS postdoc scholar at the University of Washington, working with Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy and Maryam Fazel. I received my PhD in Computer Science from UCSD, where I was fortunate to be advised by Mikhail Belkin. Prior to UCSD, I received my BS in Mathematics from Zhejiang University.

I am broadly interested in the optimization and mathematical foundations of deep learning. I have worked on understanding the dynamics of wide neural networks, particularly in the NTK [Jacot et al. 2018] regime and catapult [Lewkowycz et al. 2020] regime. More recently, I have focused on feature learning in machine learning models, particularly in neural networks and kernel machines.

Email: libinzhu at uw dot edu

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