Jack Mayo
Scholar

Jack Mayo

Google Scholar ID: Qwhl1AEAAAAJ
Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam
Machine LearningLearning TheoryOnline LearningReinforcement LearningMarkov Decision
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Citations
144
 
H-index
6
 
i10-index
4
 
Publications
10
 
Co-authors
13
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Publications: 'Scale-free Unconstrained Online Learning for Curved Losses' accepted to COLT 2022
  • - Awards: October 5th, 2020 - 'Unravelling intra-aggregate structural disorder using single-molecule spectroscopy' awarded with an Editor's Pick in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • - June 17th, 2020 - 'Full Counting Statistics of Topological Defects after Crossing a Phase Transition' awarded with an Editor's Choice in PRL
  • - Reviewing: NeurIPS, AIStats, and TMLR
Research Experience
  • - Research Projects: Developing efficient and adaptive algorithms for online learning, drawing inspiration and techniques from information theory, statistics, and optimization.
  • - Position: PhD Student
  • - Work Experience: Research visit to Csaba Szepesvári and colleagues at the University of Alberta, Edmonton; attended NeurIPS conference.
Education
  • - Degree: PhD
  • - School: University of Amsterdam
  • - Supervisor: Dr. Tim van Erven
  • - Time: Ongoing
  • - Major: Mathematics (Machine Learning Theory)
  • - Other Educational Experiences: Studies in non-equilibrium thermodynamics and condensed matter theory during BSc and MSc
Background
  • - Research Interests: Parameter-free online learning, connections between statistical learning and optimization methods, Bandits and reinforcement learning
  • - Professional Field: Machine Learning Theory
  • - Brief Introduction: A fourth-year PhD student at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam, working on the theory and mathematics underlying a broad class of decision-theoretic problems and modern machine learning methods.
Miscellany
  • - Personal Interests: Teaching Assistant for the Machine Learning Theory course, co-organizing the NeurIPS Debriefing event