<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I've been talking with some of our students working on Machine Learning <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">projects the need to have a discussion group on machine learning where <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">we can talk at a low-level about several of the ideas we are pursuing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The goal is to be able to see connections between the different projects</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and gain new insights/ideas that would benefit our current project as well</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">as potentially launch new projects.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I can help drive the discussions and I suggest we focus on a project or a</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">general idea per week.  This week, we can start with Ekta's work on using</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">GANs for image restoration and ways we can improve GAN training.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We are planning to hold it in the 4Eyes conference room Fridays at 10am.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you are interested in attending, please let Peter know so he can have</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">an accurate headcount so we know we will fit in that small room.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Let me know if you have any questions.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-Pradeep</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">---<div>Pradeep Sen</div><div>Associate Professor</div><div>UCSB MIRAGE Lab</div><div>Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering</div><div>University of California, Santa Barbara</div><div>Santa Barbara, CA <span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">93106-9560</span></div></div></div></div></div>