Welcome!

I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Statistics & Data Science at UCLA. I earned my MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics from the University of Washington and my BS in Data Theory from UCLA. I study deep learning, with the goal of developing a program for understanding feature learning in neural networks. Please see my research page for more details. If you are an undergraduate student interested in working with me, please go to this page first for some things to consider.

You can reach me at ethan [dot] young [at] ucla [dot] edu.

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