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BIU AI and ML Learning Club, July 7 – Local Glivenko-Cantelli (or: estimating the mean in infinite dimensions)
July 7 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm IDT
On July 7, Prof. Aryeh Kontorovich from the Tel Aviv University will give a talk titled: Local Glivenko-Cantelli (or: estimating the mean in infinite dimensions)
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BIO:
Aryeh Kontorovich received his undergraduate degree in mathematics with a certificate in applied mathematics from Princeton University in 2001. His M.Sc. and Ph.D. are from Carnegie Mellon University, where he graduated in 2007. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science, he joined the Computer Science department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2009, where he is currently a full professor. His research interests are mainly in machine learning, with a focus on probability, statistics, Markov chains, and metric spaces.
He served as the director of the Ben-Gurion University Data Science Research Center during 2021-2022.