Anıl Kamber

I am a second year Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student at University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, advised by Rahul Parhi.

I am exploring the mysteries of optimization dynamics in neural networks and transformer-based architectures. In particular, I am trying to understand why these models generalize well despite being highly overparameterized.

I received my bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. My bachelor’s thesis, titled Blind Source Separation in Neuroscience, which was advised by Alper Erdogan and Burak Acar, won the Cenker Oden Senior Design Project Award, awarded for the best theoretical undergraduate research. Additionally, I derived the channel response of a SISO molecular communication via diffusion system in a 3-D half-space with an infinite reflecting surface, under the supervision of Ali Emre Pusane.

Moreover, I am also interested in theoretical neuroscience.