Pathfinder: Quasi-Newton Variational Inference Bob Carpenter Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Mathematics
Monday
03.10
USI Campus Est, room D1.14, Sector D
12:30-14:30
Bob Carpenter
Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Mathematics
Biography: Bob Carpenter is a research scientist at Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Mathematics. He works on probabilistic programming languages, statistical inference algorithms, and applied statistics, primarily within the Stan community (https://mc-stan.org). Before moving into statistics, Bob worked on theoretical linguistics, logic programming, natural language processing, speech recognition, and search, both in industry and academia.