Publications
Publications and manuscripts, grouped by research area. See also my Google Scholar profile.
Optimization for Machine Learning
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The Convergence Behavior of Adam under Heavy-Tailed Noise
Proceedings of the 42nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2026)
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Closing the Bias-Correction Gap in Discounted Regret Analysis of Adam
In submission
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Towards Stability of Parameter-free Optimization
Proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2026) (To appear)
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Stochastic Two Points Method for Deep Model Zeroth-order Optimization
arXiv preprint (2024)
Biomedical and Clinical Machine Learning
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Cross-Cohort Surrogate Modeling Links Conversational Language Features to Multimodal Biomarkers
Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA 2026)
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Conversational Semantic Dynamics for Mild Cognitive Impairment Detection
Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA 2026)
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Feasibility of identifying factors related to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia in real-world data
JAMIA Open, 9(2), ooag060 (2026)
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Bridging Language Markers and Pathology: Correlations Between Digital Speech Measures and Surrogate CSF Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (2026)
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Subject Harmonization of Digital Biomarkers: Improved Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment from Language Markers
Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2024), Volume 29
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Distributed Harmonization: Federated Clustered Batch Effect Adjustment and Generalization
Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024), Applied Data Science Track
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Translingual Language Markers for Cognitive Assessment from Spontaneous Speech
Proceedings of the 25th Interspeech Conference (Interspeech 2024)
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Predicting Progression from Normal to MCI and from MCI to AD Using Clinical Variables in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center Uniform Data Set Version 3: Application of Machine Learning Models and a Probability Calculator
The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease (2023)
Broader Machine Learning Applications
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ChatWise: A Strategy-Guided Chatbot for Enhancing Cognitive Support in Older Adults
Workshop on Large Language Models for Scientific and Societal Advances at KDD 2025 (KDD 2025 workshop)
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Cross-modality debiasing: using language to mitigate sub-population shifts in imaging
arXiv preprint (2024)
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RUSH: Robust contrastive learning via randomized smoothing
Workshop on New Frontiers in Adversarial Machine Learning at ICML 2022 (ICML 2022 workshop)