CyMath ECpE tutors have had one or more papers at every NeurIPS and ICML in the last two years

Award Category: Recognition Award

Award Description: Tutors in Iowa State’s CyMath program have had one or more papers in the last two years at each of the two top machine learning conferences (the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems and the International Conference on Machine Learning).

Jiabin Lin, Ruoyu Meng, Vrinda Girimaji, Dr. Aditya Ramamoorthy, Dr. Shana Moothedath, and Dr. Namrata Vaswani are publishing exciting new machine learning algorithms work in the best conferences while also helping K-12 youth make large gains in their math skills! Papers were written on novel algorithms and theoretical analyses for meta learning or learning to learn, contextual bandits, cyber-attack resilience for distributed low rank matrix learning and few shot learning, and on fast algorithms for gradient-coding based straggler resilience in distributed computing (critical for making distributed computing reliably fast).

Papers:

1. Jiabin Lin and Shana Moothedath, Provably Efficient Multi-Task Meta Bandit Learning via Shared Representations, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
2. Ankit Singh, Ahmed Abbasi, and Namrata Vaswani, Byzantine-Resilient Federated Alternating Gradient Descent and Minimization for Partly-Decoupled Low Rank Matrix Learning, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
3. Aditya Ramamoorthy, Ruoyu Meng and Vrinda S. Girimaji, Leveraging partial stragglers within gradient coding, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
4. Jiabin Lin, Shana Moothedath, and Namrata Vaswani, Fast and Sample Efficient Multi-Task Representation Learning in Stochastic Contextual Bandits, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
5. Ankit Singh, and Namrata Vaswani, Byzantine Resilient and Fast Federated Few-Shot Learning, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024

Award website: Here

Submitted by: Namrata Vaswani, CyMath director