Machine learning researcher focusing on latent variable models, representation learning, Bayesian inference, and semi-supervised/unsupervised learning.
Has worked on machine learning, computer vision, physical inference, and optimization problems for the past decade.
Previously focused on 3D video tracking combined with physical models.
Currently researching representation learning, generative models, Bayesian modeling (strongly pro-Bayesian), and particularly the Mutual Information Machine (MIM).
MIM uses a novel symmetric variational inference approach to learn latent representations with high mutual information and low marginal entropy, and is not prone to posterior collapse unlike VAEs.