Andrej Jovanović
Scholar

Andrej Jovanović

Google Scholar ID: XGkg1t0AAAAJ
University of Cambridge
Distributed Machine LearningFederated LearningMachine Learning EfficiencyNLP
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Publications
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Co-authors
17
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Publications: 'MT-DAO: Multi-Timescale Distributed Adaptive Optimizers with Local Updates' and other papers
  • - Awards: Second place IBM prize in MLP course awards at UoE
Research Experience
  • - ML Researcher @ University of Cambridge & Flower Labs;
  • - Community Lead: ml-theory @ Cohere Labs
Education
  • - October 2025 - Present: University of Cambridge (PhD) Computer Science, specializing in federated (pre)training of large language models, advised by Nic Lane
  • - October 2023 - August 2024: University of Cambridge (MPhil) Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence, specializing in speech and language processing. Thesis on Second-order Optimization and Imbalanced Class Distribution in Emotion Analysis, supervised by Brian (Guangzhi) Sun
  • - September 2019 - May 2023: University of Edinburgh (BSc Hons) Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
Background
  • - Research Interests: Distributed, privacy-preserving, efficient, and collaborative machine learning
  • - Specialization: Federated learning, neural network compression, optimization theory
  • - Introduction: Cautious about the promise of centralized machine learning paradigms, believes in exploring alternative paradigms that can scale while promoting privacy inherently.
Miscellany
  • - Interests: Deep learning, NLP, open-source ML, efficiency, optimization