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I received free NeurIPS registration for providing high quality reviews. It is awarded to the top 400 reviewers, and some people call it “Best Reviewer Award”.

I was at the ICCOPT conference in Berlin from 5 to 8 August as the chair of 3 sessions: 2 on variational inequality/minimax/GANs and 1 on non-smooth optimization.

From 15 to 18 July I’m attending the Frontiers of Deep Learning workshop at Simons Insitute.

From 17 to 28 June I visited Matthias Ehrhardt.

Our work on time series was accepted as a poster to the Time Series Workshop at ICML and I presented it together with Federico Vaggi.

After a successful round of reviews for ICML I was invited to serve on committee for two more important ML conferences.

I will be at EPFL, visiting the Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory led by Martin Jaggi.

Excluding visitors, we have 6 PhD students and 3 postdocs. The photo is taken just a couple of days ago at KAUST.

I was asked to be a reviewer at ICML next year, and I was happy to accept.