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Education
- Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2020 - present
- M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2018
- B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2016
Experience
- Aug 2020 - present: Graduate Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Advisor: Prof. Soummya Kar
- Nov 2018 - Jun 2020: Junior Researcher at Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Advisor: Prof. Dušan Jakovetić
- Sep 2019 - Dec 2019: Visiting Researcher at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Advisor: Prof. Alejandro Ribeiro
July 2018 - Oct 2018: Junior Researcher at BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
- Feb 2018 - July 2018: Visiting Researcher at Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Advisor: Prof. Blaž Zupan
Publications
A. Armacki, D. Jakovetić, N. Krejić and N. K. Jerinkić, "Distributed Trust-Region Method With First Order Models," IEEE EUROCON 2019 -18th International Conference on Smart Technologies, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/EUROCON.2019.8861739.
Armacki, A., Bajović, D., Jakovetić, D. & Kar, S. (2022). Gradient Based Clustering. Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 162:929-947.
A. Armacki, D. Bajović, D. Jakovetić and S. Kar, "Personalized Federated Learning via Convex Clustering," 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Pafos, Cyprus, 2022, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9921863.
Armacki, A., Milošević, N., Bajović, D., Kar, S., Jakovetić, D., Bakhtiarnia, A., Esterle, L., Muscat, A., & Festi, T. (2023). Communication Efficient Model-aware Federated Learning for Visual Crowd Counting and Density Estimation in Smart Cities. EUSIPCO 2023 31st European Signal Processing Conference, Helsinki, Finland.
Armacki, A., Sharma, P., Joshi, G., Bajović, D., Jakovetić, D., & Kar, S. (2023). High-probability Convergence Bounds for Nonlinear Stochastic Gradient Descent Under Heavy-tailed Noise. arxiv preprint, arxiv:2310.18784.
Armacki, A., Bajović, D., Jakovetić, D., & Kar, S. "A One-Shot Framework for Distributed Clustered Learning in Heterogeneous Environments," in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 636-651, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2023.3343561.
Armacki, A., Bajović, D., Jakovetić, D., & Kar, S. (2024). A Unified Framework for Gradient-based Clustering of Distributed Data. arxiv preprint, arxiv:2402.01302
Armacki, A., Yu, S., Sharma, P., Joshi, G., Bajović, D., Jakovetić, D., & Kar, S. (2024). Nonlinear Stochastic Gradient Descent and Heavy-tailed Noise: A Unified Framework and High-probability Guarantees. arxiv preprint, arxiv:2410.13954.
Armacki, A., Yu, S., Bajović, D., Jakovetić, D., & Kar, S. (2024). Large Deviations and Improved Mean-squared Error Rates of Nonlinear SGD: Heavy-tailed Noise and Power of Symmetry. arxiv preprint, arxiv:2410.15637
Armacki, A., Sharma, H., Bajović, D., Jakovetić, D., Chakraborty, M., & Kar, S. (2024). Distributed Gradient Clustering: Convergence and the Effect of Initialization. 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers [To appear]
Awards
- IBM PhD Fellowship - Finalist. One of three nominees by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 2023
- Dean’s Fellowship - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2020
- Annual Award of the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts for M.Sc. Students in the Field of Computing - Finalist, 2019
- Various government awards and fellowships for students with stellar academic record - Serbia, 2012-18
Teaching
Academic Service
- Conference reviewer.
- AISTATS: 2023, 2024, 2025
- IEEE ISIT: 2024
- Journal reviewer.
- Student supervision.
- Student council for faculty hiring, CMU ECE 2023.