Publications

to begin in spring 2019.

Please email Laura Balzano <girasole@umich.edu> with the subject “Joining the Balzano lab — postdoc 2019” if you are interested.

We are seeking a postdoc who is interested in applying machine learning techniques to real-time dynamic data analysis. While machine learning has advanced significantly over the last decade, its application to dynamic time-varying data is still in its infancy. This project will focus on three ML areas: online learning, stochastic gradient methods, and streaming PCA. We will work on theory to understand how the standard approaches behave when the data are time-varying, develop appropriate models for time-varying data, and develop novel approaches along with convergence theory. Our main applications focus will be power systems engineering and computer vision. In power systems, we will develop methodologies to infer the real-time behavior of aggregations of distributed energy resources from hierarchical, heterogeneous, and incomplete measurements of power system quantities. In computer vision, we will develop real-time algorithms for object tracking and activity recognition in video.