Advanced Deep Learning
MICRO-DEGREEThis course introduces the foundations and evolution of neural net-work architectures, from early neural networks and CNNs to Trans-formers, large language models, and AI agent systems. It focuses on
About
Haojin Yang is a researcher in multimedia and machine learning. He received his Ph.D. (with the highest praise: summa cum laude) from the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI). He previously led the Multimedia and Machine Learning (MML) research group at the Hasso Plattner Institute (2017–2025) and has been habilitated for a professorship since 2019. His research focuses on efficient deep learning, model acceleration and compression, and agentic AI systems. He also formerly served as Head of the Beijing branch of Alibaba AI Labs’ Edge Computing Laboratory (2019–2020) and as Chief AI Scientist at Huawei’s Edge-Cloud Innovation Lab (2021–2023). He has also served as (Senior) Program Committee Member of top AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR etc.
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