Optimization and Deep Learning

The Mines Optimization and Deep Learning (MODL) group conducts research in the intersection of deep learning and optimization. Current areas of interest include inverse problems, learning-to-optimize, applied probability, zeroth order optimization, and implicit deep learning. Our ongoing projects apply these techniques to problems from spatial statistics, optimal power flow, generative models, signal processing, and optimal control. For more information, feel free to contact any of the faculty listed below.

Optimization and Deep Learning Seminars

Optimization and Deep Learning meets on TBD.

Contact Dr. Samy Wu Fung or Dr. Daniel McKenzie if you are interested in attending.

Research Faculty

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Daniel McKenzie

Email: dmckenzie@mines.edu
Website: https://danielmckenzie.github.io/

  • Derivative-free optimization and applications
  • Implicit neural networks
  • Geometric methods in data science
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Samy Wu Fung

Email: swufung@mines.edu
Website: https://swufung.github.io/

  • Inverse Problems, Optimization, Deep Learning
  • Optimal Control, Mean Field Games
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Luis Tenorio

Email: ltenorio@mines.edu

  • Statistical inverse problems
  • Applied probability
  • Experimental design

Students

Michael Ivanitskiy

Andy Holmberg

Brandon Knutson

Brandon Knutson

Brandon Knutson

Ziyu Li

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Kate Raitz

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Jordan Pettyjohn

Antony Sikorski

Antony Sikorski

Soraya Terrab

Soraya Terrab