Riyasat Ohib
Georgia Institute of Technology. Ph.D. Candidate

I am a Graduate Student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. While I have a broad interest in learning algorithms, my current research primarily centers on the development of sparse and efficient neural networks and understanding the intricacies of their training process. I currently work as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Translational Research in Neuro-imaging and Data Science (TReNDS), a joint research center by Georgia Tech, Georgia State and Emory University under the supervision of Dr. Vince Calhoun and Dr. Sergey Plis.
My interests span most of deep learning, with a current focus on efficient AI, sparse deep learning, and multimodal learning. I also have happened to dabble in research on multi-task reinforcement learning.
Please reach out if you would like to know more about my research, discuss about AI research or would like to collaborate.

Georgia Tech
Aug 2019 - Present

FAIR at Meta AI
Summer 2022

Cohere
Fall 2024

Dolby Labs
Summer 2024

TReNDS Center
Fall 2019 - Present
news
Sep 25, 2024 | Our latest work, Efficient Reinforcement Learning by Discovering Neural Pathways was accepted at NeurIPS 2024. |
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Sep 03, 2024 | Excited to join the model efficiency team at Cohere as a Research Intern! |
May 20, 2024 | Joining the Advanced Technologies group at Dolby Laboratories as a Ph.D. Research Intern! Will be working on novel efficient finetuning methods for both LLMs and multimodal VLMs. |
Mar 05, 2023 | Preliminary work accepted in ICLR 2023 Sparse Neural Networks workshop on communication efficient federated learning and full work out on arXiv. |
Oct 31, 2022 | Our work, Explicit Group Sparse Projection with Applications to Deep Learning and NMF has been published in the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). Available at: OpenReview |
May 09, 2022 | Joined FAIR at Meta AI as a Research Scientist Intern to work on efficient ML and model sparsity research. My compression research library was integrated as part of the open source Fairscale library. |