Invited talks

Upcoming talks

  • Statistical theory for reinforcement learning: Oracle inequalities, Markov chains, and stochastic approximation, Young Researchers Workshop, Cornell University, Oct 2022

  • Optimal and Instance-dependent Guarantees for Markovian Linear Stochastic Approximation, APS student paper competition at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Oct 2022

  • On The Statistical Complexity Of Reinforcement Learning With Function Approximation, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Oct 2022

  • Rethinking semi-parametric efficiency for off-policy estimation: a non-asymptotic perspective, BLISS seminar, UC Berkeley, Oct 2022

  • Optimal variance-reduced stochastic approximation in Banach spaces, Applied and Computational Math seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Nov 2022

Past talks

  • Optimal algorithms for reinforcement learning: Oracle inequalities, Markov chains, and stochastic approximation, International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Lehigh University, July 2022

  • Statistical theory for reinforcement learning: Oracle inequalities, Markov chains, and stochastic approximation, Neyman seminar, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley, January 2022

  • High-Order Langevin diffusion yields an accelerated MCMC algorithm, Simons Institute program on Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling, October 2021

  • Optimal oracle inequalities for projected fixed-point equations, Machine Learning reading group, UT Austin, September 2021

  • On the sample complexity of reinforcement learning with policy space generalization, Simons Institute, reinforcement learning theory student seminar, December 2020

  • Langevin diffusions in modern statistical learning: discretization, sampling, and posterior concentration, statistics reading group, University of Wisconsin, Madison, July 2020

  • High-Order Langevin diffusion yields an accelerated MCMC algorithm, ACO student seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 2019

  • Generalization bounds of SGLD for non-convex learning: two theoretical viewpoints, Simons Institute, deep learning student seminar, October 201