{"id":45,"date":"2025-11-26T20:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:57:11","slug":"plenary-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/plenary-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"589\" height=\"748\" src=\"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Natasha2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Natasha Devroye<\/strong>, University of Illinois Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Title:&nbsp;<\/strong>Can We Learn from Learned Error-Correcting Codes?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"296\" src=\"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Olgica.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois Urbana\u2013Champaign<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Title:&nbsp;E<\/strong>rror-Correction for Nanopore Readouts: From Contextual Deletions to Substring Permutations<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" height=\"495\" src=\"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Henry2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Henry Pfister<\/strong>, Duke University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Title:&nbsp;Diffusion Models Through the Lens of Information Theory<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1090\" height=\"1472\" src=\"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Yury2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Yury Polyanskiy<\/strong>, MIT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Title:\u00a0Quantization for LLMs and Matrix Multiplication<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}