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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 Join the event , opens in a new tab/window

Thursday, 11/12:

  • 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