Contact Information:Vahid Tarokh The Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wilkinson Engineering Building Room 425 305 Teer Engineering Building Box 90271 Durham, NC 27708 U.S.A. (919) 660-7594 E-mail: vahidtarokhacademic (at) gmail (dot) com |
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ResearchOur current research is in Foundations of AI (pursuing new mathematical formulations and approaches to getting the most out of datasets). We invent both new mathematical methodologies, and demonstrate these (by numerical simulations) in various scenarios of interest. Although our research is mainly mathematical, nevertheless we look for mathematical nuggets that may lead to new applications. In other words, we do not necessarily build any systems, but make algorithms/mathematical constructions that may be (in some cases) used in future systems.
Current projects are focused on representation, modeling, inference and prediction from data such as predicting rare events from small amounts of data, formulation and calculation of limits of learning from observations, and determining how the insects brains represent and encode their environments for agile decision making.
You need to know and be willing to learn more math if you want to join our group. Some members of our group have no electrical engineering or any engineering degrees at all. We have members with backgrounds in astronomy, applied mathematics, pure mathematics, physics, electrical engineering and aero-astro engineering. So in every way, we are diverse! Our typical papers usually include theorems and proofs. But we do not call ourselves "pure mathematicians". That said in some cases, we have invented new pure mathematical results in the past.
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