Haris Vikalo

Haris Vikalo

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

The University of Texas at Austin

hvikalo [AT] ece.utexas.edu  ·  Google Scholar

Bio

I am a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. My research focuses on machine learning and signal processing methods for inference, learning, and decision-making from complex data, especially in settings where data is distributed, resources are limited, or operating conditions change over time.

Current work in my group spans machine learning at the edge, federated and continual learning, wireless systems and signal processing, and computational genomics. Across these areas, we develop algorithms that are efficient, adaptive, and reliable under realistic data, computational, and system constraints.

Research

Recent Publications and Preprints (Full list: link.)

When Is Rank-1 Steering Cheap? Geometry, Granularity, and Budgeted Search
J. Robertson, J. Zhu, H. Vikalo, and Z. Wang  ·  arXiv  ·  paper
FedRot-LoRA: Mitigating Rotational Misalignment in Federated LoRA
H. Zhang, D. Kim, S. Cha and H. Vikalo  ·  ICML 2026
Quantized Gradient Projection for Memory-Efficient Continual Learning
D. Kim, S. Cha, H. Chen, C. Wang and H. Vikalo  ·  ICLR 2026  ·  paper
Transformers as Implicit State Estimators: In-Context Learning in Dynamical Systems
U. Akram and H. Vikalo  ·  TMLR 2026  ·  paper
NextVir: Enabling classification of tumor-causing viruses with genomic foundation models
J. Robertson, S. Consul, and H. Vikalo  ·  PLoS Computational Biology 2025  ·  paper