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Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
Presentations by Kempner Research Fellowship candidates, via Zoom, open to the Kempner community and the general public.
Date:
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Time:
12:00 - 3:45pm
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Presentations, Thursday, November 12
- 12pm: Ido Aizenbud, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The Computational Power of Single Neurons: Dendrites as Architectural Primitives for Neural Networks”
- 12:45pm: Yatin Dandi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, “How Neural Networks Learn Features: Low-Degree Correlations and Collective Dynamics”
- 1:30pm: Jiecheng Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology, From Attention Mechanisms to Memory Systems in Sequence Models
- 2:15pm: Sheng-Yu Wang, MIT CSAIL & Northeastern University, “Tracing Model Behavior Back to Training Data”
- 3:00pm: Gautam Chandrasekaran, UT Austin, Beyond worst-case algorithms for learning
