Anıl Kamber

Jacobs Hall, Room 4516

9736 Engineers Ln.

La Jolla, CA 92092

Hey! I am Anıl Kamber, and I am a third-year ECE PhD student at University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. I am advised by Rahul Parhi.

I am broadly interested in optimization theory, deep learning theory, statistical learning, and deep learning systems. In particular, I am interested in designing parallelizable neural associative memory modules for transformers whose recall operations have subquadratic computational complexity at inference time. On the theoretical side, I am interested in the loss-landscape geometry of neural network training, as well as in the theory of learning dynamical systems.

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.

I am also interested in theoretical neuroscience.

selected publications and preprints

IEEE TMBMC

Half-Space Modeling With Reflecting Surface in Molecular Communication

Anıl Kamber, H Birkan Yilmaz, Ali E. Pusane, and 1 more author

IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, 2024

DOI Bib

@article{kamber2024half,
  title = {Half-Space Modeling With Reflecting Surface in Molecular Communication},
  author = {Kamber, Anıl and Yilmaz, H Birkan and Pusane, Ali E. and Tugcu, Tuna},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TMBMC.2024.3448353},
}

Sharpness of Minima in Deep Matrix Factorization

Anıl Kamber and Rahul Parhi

2025

arXiv Bib

@unpublished{kamber2025sharpnessminimadeepmatrix,
  title = {Sharpness of Minima in Deep Matrix Factorization},
  author = {Kamber, Anıl and Parhi, Rahul},
  year = {2025},
  status = {Manuscripts Under Review},
}

On the Loss Landscape Geometry of Regularized Deep Matrix Factorization: Uniqueness and Sharpness

Anıl Kamber and Rahul Parhi

2026

arXiv Bib

@misc{kamber2026losslandscapegeometryregularized,
  title = {On the Loss Landscape Geometry of Regularized Deep Matrix Factorization: Uniqueness and Sharpness},
  author = {Kamber, Anıl and Parhi, Rahul},
  year = {2026},
  status = {Manuscripts Under Review},
}

^*In Turkish, the word an is both a noun and a verb. As a verb, it means “to remember” or “to commemorate”; as a noun, it means “a moment” or “an instant”—an infinitesimal amount of time. The noun anı means “memory”, and anıl is the passive form of the verb an. ↩