PhD Defense: Adaptiveness, Asynchrony, and Resource Efficiency in Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent

Welcome to the Doctoral Defense of Karl Bäckström

Date and time: May 30, 13:15-17:00

Location: Lecture room EE, EDIT building, Campus Johanneberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and online (see link below)

Doctoral student: Karl Bäckström, Networks and Systems, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg

Title: Adaptiveness, Asynchrony, and Resource Efficiency in Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent

Supervisor: Marina Papatriantafilou, Associate Professor, Networks and Systems, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg

Opponent: Assaf Schuster, Professor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Original location: Lecture room EE, EDIT building, Campus Johanneberg, Chalmers & online