Biography

My name is Farnood Salehi. I am a Ph.D. student, supervised by Prof. Patrick Thiran and Dr. Elisa Celis. I earned my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology 2014.

Past research:
- In my research, I have worked on accelerating the stochastic optimization algorithms for the cost functions used commonly in machine learning, where we developed some theory and tested it on real datasets.
- I have also worked on dictionary learning problem. We developed an algorithm to learn the dictionary, which is a basis for representing a signal and tested it on real images for denoising.
- I have worked on a problem related to auctions, where we forced constraints (e.g., fairness, budget, etc) on the repeated auctions (e.g., online advertisement) and derived an algorithm for allocating items to users under such settings. We tested our algorithm on an online ad dataset provided by Yahoo!.

You can find my CV here.

Current work

Multi-armed bandits:
Learning under fairness constraints.

Stochastic optimization:
Accelerating stochastic optimization algorithms using multi-armed bandit algorithms for sampling.