Prof. Dr. Semih Cayci

Forschungsinteressen

Mathematische Grundlagen des Maschinellen Lernens, Deep Learning Theorie, Reinforcement Learning, Angewandte Wahrscheinlichkeit, Optimierung Theorie

Lebenslauf

Seit 2022: Tenure-Track Juniorprofessor für Mathematik des Maschinellen Lernens, RWTH Aachen University

2020-2022: NSF TRIPODS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2014-2020: Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Ohio State University

Teaching

11.40004 Stochastic Analysis - Winter 2024/25

11.80020 Mathematical Foundations of Deep Learning - Winter 2023/24

11.50002 Seminar: Mathematical Learning - Summer 2023

11.70010 Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning - Winter 2022/23

Graduate Students

PhD Students

Noah Oberweis

Reza Zolnouri

MSc Students

Jiaan Xing

Steve Meiter

Mariia Krasilnikova

News

26.02.2025 - Convergence of Gradient Descent for Recurrent Neural Networks: A Nonasymptotic Analysis got accepted to SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science.

19.12.2024 - New manuscript Gauss-Newton Dynamics for Neural Networks: A Riemannian Optimization Perspective is now on arXiv.

11.04.2024 - Convergence of Entropy-Regularized Natural Policy Gradient with Linear Function Approximation got accepted to SIAM Journal on Optimization.

11.04.2024 - I gave a talk titled 'A Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Gradient Descent for Recurrent Neural Networks' as part of Mathematics of Machine Learning Seminar at Max Planck Institute MIP and UCLA.

20.03.2024 - Finite-Time Analysis of Natural Actor-Critic for POMDPs got accepted to SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science.

18.03.2024 - Finite-Time Analysis of Entropy-Regularized Neural Natural Actor-Critic Algorithms got accepted to the Transactions on Machine Learning Research.

Kontaktmöglichkeiten und Sprechzeiten

Büro: Raum 202, Pontdriesch 14

Telefon: +49 241 80-97828

E-Mail: cayci@mathc.rwth-aachen.de

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RWTH Aachen University

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z.H. Prof. Dr. Semih Cayci

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52062 Aachen