IEEE Signal Processing Society Chicago Chapter/ECE Seminar

IEEE Signal Processing Society Chicago Chapter/ECE Seminar
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, at 1:30 p.m.
Location: SEO Room 1000, 851 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
Title: Learning with Graphs
Gonzalo Mateos, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Rochester
Abstract: This talk is about learning from network data, which arises for instance with applications involving online social media, recommendation systems, transportation, and network neuroscience. By fruitfully exploiting the inductive biases in relational data, graph neural networks (GNNs) have attained unprecedented performance in various machine learning tasks, including node/graph classification, link prediction, and graph generation. To provide additional motivation, I will start with a user-friendly and didactic introduction to graph signal processing. The goal is to establish the foundations and basic concepts that will be useful to introduce graph GNNs in an intuitive way. After discussing architectures and key properties that make GNNs the model of choice when it comes to learning from relational data, I will highlight several success stories of GNN-based learning for Amazon’s recommendation system, Google Maps navigation, antibiotic discovery, and our own work on explainable brain age prediction.
Bio: Gonzalo Mateos earned the B.Sc. degree from Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay, in 2005, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2009 and 2011, all in electrical engineering. He joined the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, in 2014, where he is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science (secondary appointment), as well as the Associate Director for Research at the University of Rochester's Goergen Institute for Data Science. He also was the Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science (2020-23). During the 2013 academic year, he was a visiting scholar with the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as a Systems Engineer at Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), Uruguay. His research interests lie in the areas of statistical learning from complex data, network science, decentralized optimization, and graph signal processing, with applications in brain connectivity, causal discovery, wireless network monitoring, power grid analytics, and information diffusion.
Faculty Host: Dr. Daniela Tuninetti (danielat@uic.edu)
Speaker(s): Prof. Gonzalo Mateos
851 S Morgan St, 1031 SEO, CHICAGO, Illinois, United States, 60607