Published multiple papers, such as 'PAC-Bayes Compression Bounds So Tight That They Can Explain Generalization' (Sanae Lotfi, Marc Finzi, Sanyam Kapoor, Andres Potapczynski, Micah Goldblum, Andrew Gordon Wilson, NeurIPS, 2022); 'Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors' (Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, Micah Goldblum, Hossein Souri, Sanyam Kapoor, Chen Zhu, Yann LeCun, Andrew Gordon Wilson, NeurIPS, 2022); 'On Feature Learning in the Presence of Spurious Correlations' (Pavel Izmailov, Polina Kirichenko, Nate Gruver, Andrew Gordon Wilson, NeurIPS, 2022); 'On Uncertainty, Tempering, and Data Augmentation in Bayesian Classification' (Sanyam Kapoor, Wesley Maddox, Pavel Izmailov, Andrew Gordon Wilson, NeurIPS, 2022); 'Chroma-VAE: Mitigating Shortcut Learning with Generative Classifiers' (Wanqian Yang, Polina Kirichenko, Micah Goldblum, Andrew Gordon Wilson, NeurIPS, 2022); 'Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization' (Sanae Lotfi, Pavel Izmailov, Gregory Benton, Micah Goldblum, Andrew Gordon Wilson, ICML, 2022), which won an Outstanding Paper Award.
Research Experience
Research areas include understanding deep learning models, uncertainty representation, distribution shifts, encoding and learning inductive biases, linear algebra as a foundation for ML, machine learning for physics, simple practical methods, and scientific discovery.
Education
Professor at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Data Science, New York University.
Background
Research Interests: theory and empirical science of deep learning; Areas of expertise: understanding deep learning models, uncertainty representation, distribution shifts, encoding and learning inductive biases, linear algebra as a foundation for ML, machine learning for physics, simple practical methods, scientific discovery.
Miscellany
A classical pianist outside of work, particularly enjoying Glenn Gould's playing of Bach. Contact: andrewgw@cims.nyu.edu, on Bluesky and Twitter as @andrewgwils.