About
Category:
Recruitment
Affiliations:
Faculty Member, Vector Institute; Assistant Professor, Depts. of Computer Science and Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
Expertise:
Machine learning, optimization, statistics, data analysis
Major Contributions/Awards:
Developed novel optimization algorithms for machine learning (Newton-Stein Method, Scaled Least Squares) which are computationally more efficient than existing methods (NIPS Spotlight presentation 2015)