PhD Defense Presentation. April 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE. On Iterative Hard-Thresholding: Gradient Estimation and Non-Convex Projections [Slides][Video]
2023
Candidacy Exam Presentation. May 2023, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Zeroth-Order Hard-Thresholding, Sparsity with k-support Norm, Perspectives [Slides]
2022
NeurIPS. Dec. 2022, New Orleans, USA. Zeroth-Order Hard-Thresholding: Gradient Error vs. Expansivity [Video and Slides][Poster]
(I also presented a preliminary version of the talk at the Behind the Scenes Seminar at MBZUAI (a weekly seminar between all students of MBZUAI))
MBZUAI Group Seminar. March 2022, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Forward Mode and Directional Derivatives [Slides]
2021
MBZUAI Group Seminar. Nov. 2021, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Presentation after reading the paper ZORO[Slides]
2018
PyConFR. Oct. 2018, Lille, France. Metric-learn: a scikit-learn compatible package for metric learning [Video][Slides]