Samet Oymak
Samet OymakAssistant ProfessorElectrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Statistics & Optimization for Trustworthy AI

Our Research

We develop principled and empirically-impactful AI/ML methods

  • mathematical foundations for transformers, sequence modeling, and capabilities of language models
  • core optimization and statistical learning theory
  • trustworthy language and time-series (foundation) models
  • reinforcement learning, control, LLMs as interactive agents

Announcements

  • I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar starting around January 2025. Please email me a CV to apply. Topics of interest:
    • methods and theory for LLMs including reasoning and test-time compute
    • foundation models for time-series and tabular data, next-gen AutoML
  • My student Yingcong Li will be in the academic job market

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