{"613966":{"#nid":"613966","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Professor Wins Sony Research Innovation Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech \u003C\/strong\u003EProfessor \u003Cstrong\u003EFaramarz Fekri\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Erecently won the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sony.com\/research-award-program#FacultyInnovationAward\u0022\u003E Sony Innovation Research Award\u003C\/a\u003E for his work \u0026ldquo;Distributed Machine Learning with Minimum Communication Overhead.\u0026rdquo; The grant, which started in July 2018, is funded at $100,000 and is good for one year with the option to extend it for an additional year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe work involves overcoming communication overhead, often a bottleneck in distributed learning and implementations of deep models. Advancement in this space would allow companies to scale up the number of workers leading to accelerated training and computations. Fekri\u0026#39;s focus is on the challenges encountered due to transferring data and information (such as parameters of the model) among workers or between workers and a central node. During this project, Fekri will introduce solutions to overcome these issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am honored to receive this grant and am looking forward to the progress that will be made with Sony\u0026rsquo;s support. My hope is that this work will lead to more efficient communication between distributed learning and the implementation of deep learning models,\u0026rdquo; said Fekri.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Faramarz Fekri was granted $100,000 from Sony for his work on machine learning and communications."}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2018-11-07 18:34:55","changed_gmt":"2018-11-07 18:47:49","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"613962":{"id":"613962","type":"image","title":"Faramarz Fekri is a professor in the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.","body":null,"created":"1541614891","gmt_created":"2018-11-07 18:21:31","changed":"1541616402","gmt_changed":"2018-11-07 18:46:42","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233724","name":"FaramarzFekri.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/FaramarzFekri.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/FaramarzFekri.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":50710,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/FaramarzFekri.jpg?itok=gADheo1j"}}},"media_ids":["613962"],"groups":[{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAllie McFadden\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eallie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}