K-FAC, a powerful new optimization method for neural networks.
Research Experience
Joining Google-DeepMind in September 2016.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, supervised by Geoffrey Hinton and Richard Zemel.
Background
Research Interests: Development of learning algorithms, particularly the application of 2nd-order optimization techniques to deep and otherwise hard-to-optimize models; sampling and inference algorithms; expressive efficiency of deep models; unsupervised learning.