The first event will feature Yann LeCun, Facebook's director of AI research and a member of the New York University faculty. LeCun will inaugurate the series on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, from 10 to 11 am in Downtown Brooklyn, at NYU Tandon's Pfizer Auditorium, 5 MetroTech Center. Registration is free and open to all. His address, "Obstacles to Deep Learning and AI," will explore a new frontier: predictive models that capture the "common sense" exhibited by humans and animals, who often learn by observation and occasional action. LeCun's pioneering work in the application of neural networks to computer vision and other AI areas led to products and services deployed across most technology companies.

I am a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Computer Science Department at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. I am working in the Laboratory of prof. Since January 2017 I will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. I received my PhD from the Department of Electical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York, where I was also the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Presidential Fellowship holder (in years 2009-2012). I was co-advised by prof.