Prof. Dr. Semih Cayci

Forschungsinteressen

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

My recent research focuses on Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs and theoretical aspects of recurrent neural networks.

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
  • News and Announcements

  • 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.
  • 19.02.2024 - New preprint Convergence of Gradient Descent for Recurrent Neural Networks: A Nonasymptotic Analysis is now on arXiv.
  • 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

    Lehrstuhl für Mathematik der Informationsverarbeitung

    z.H. Prof. Dr. Semih Cayci

    Pontdriesch 14

    52062 Aachen

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