He has published numerous papers on preprint platforms such as arXiv and SSRN. His research topics include Polyak-Lojasiewicz inequality, synthetic data, deep learning in finance, policy gradient convergence, exploration-exploitation trade-off, and more. Some of his papers are collaborative works with other researchers.
Research Experience
His broad research interests span probability theory, stochastic analysis, and theoretical machine learning. He is currently researching the mathematical foundation of deep learning, mean-field models, (inverse) reinforcement learning, game theory and multiagent systems, sampling and optimization algorithms, computational optimal transport, and the theory of gradient flows. He is also interested in applications of these areas in finance and economics.
Education
Before joining Edinburgh, he was a Nomura Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Mathematics, University of Oxford.
Background
Professor at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Programme Director for Finance and Economics at The Alan Turing Institute. At Turing, he provides academic leadership for partnerships with the National Office for Statistics, Accenture, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and HSBC. He is the Principal Investigator of the FAIR research programme on responsible adoption of AI in the financial services industry. He is also a co-Investigator of the UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI) and an affiliated member of the Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance.
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