Talk at AISTATS about mean-field variational BNNs.
Research Experience
Postdoc in the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute, working with John Cunningham on properties of variational inference.
Education
PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard, advised by Finale Doshi-Velez and Brent Coull; MS in Statistics from Duke, advised by Cynthia Rudin.
Background
Interested in probabilistic machine learning, particularly Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) and Gaussian processes (GPs). Thinking about questions like: How do we design priors that encode meaningful functional properties? What are the theoretical connections between BNNs and GPs, especially under approximate inference? Recently: How can we leverage implicit regularization in probabilistic modeling?