Yi Pan

Georgia State University

Lecture Information:
  • March 3, 2020
  • 2:00 PM
  • CASE 349

Speaker Bio

Dr. Yi Pan is currently a Regents’ Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Georgia State University, USA. He has served as an Associate Dean and Chair of Biology Department during 2013-2017 and Chair of Computer Science during 2006-2013. Dr. Pan received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in computer engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1991. His profile has been featured as a distinguished alumnus in both Tsinghua Alumni Newsletter and University of Pittsburgh CS Alumni Newsletter. Dr. Pan’s research interests include parallel and cloud computing, big data, and bioinformatics. Dr. Pan has published more than 250 journal papers with over 100 papers published in various IEEE/ACM Transactions/journals. In addition, he has published over 150 papers in refereed conferences. He has also co-authored/co-edited 43 books. His work has been cited more than 12,200 times in Google Scholar and his current H-index is 56. Dr. Pan has served as an editor-in-chief or editorial board member for 20 journals including 7 IEEE Transactions. He is the recipient of many awards including IEEE Transactions Best Paper Award, several other conference and journal best paper awards, 4 IBM Faculty Awards, 2 JSPS Senior Invitation Fellowships, IEEE BIBE Outstanding Achievement Award, NSF Research Opportunity Award, and AFOSR Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. He has organized many international conferences and delivered keynote speeches at over 60 international conferences around the world.

Description

Due to improvements in mathematical formulas and increasingly powerful computers, we can now model many more layers of virtual neurons (deep neural networks or deep learning) than ever before. Deep learning is now producing many remarkable recent successes in computer vision, automatic speech recognition, natural language processing, audio recognition, and medical imaging processing. Although various deep learning architectures have been applied to many big data applications, extending deep learning into more complicated applications such as bioinformatics will require more conceptual and software breakthroughs, not to mention many more advances in processing power. In this talk, I will outline recent developments in deep learning research with paying particular attention to bioinformatics applications. The topics discussed include proposing more effective architectures, intelligently freezing layers, effectively handling high dimensional data, designing encoding schemes, mathematical proofs, optimization of hyper-parameters, effective use of prior knowledge, embedding logic and reasoning during training, result explanation and hardware support for deep learning. Some of our solutions and preliminary results in these areas will be presented and future research directions will also be identified in this talk.