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Three eras of my dotfiles

We tour a chezmoi-templated dotfiles setup that bootstraps a fresh machine in one command โ€” terminal, shell, prompt, multiplexer, multi-environment templating, and the developer โ€ฆ

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Gaussian Process Regression in 9,000 Google Sheets Cell Formulas

We implement a fully functional Gaussian Process regression pipeline โ€” Cholesky decomposition, posterior predictions, and gradient-based hyperparameter optimization โ€” in pure โ€ฆ

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๐Ÿ“„ One paper accepted to ICML 2026

Our paper "Empirical Gaussian Processes" was accepted to ICML 2026.

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๐Ÿ“„ One paper accepted to AutoML 2025

Our paper "Ax โ€” A Platform for Adaptive Experimentation" was accepted to AutoML 2025 (ABCD Track).

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๐Ÿ’ผ Joined Meta CAS Adaptive Experimentation

Started as a Research Scientist at Meta on the Adaptive Experimentation team within Central Applied Science (CAS), based in New York City.

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๐ŸŽ“ PhD thesis completed

Submitted my PhD thesis, *Probabilistic Machine Learning in the Age of Deep Learning*, at the University of Sydney.

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PhD Thesis Acknowledgements (Unabridged)

The unabridged acknowledgments from my PhD thesis.

๐Ÿ“„ One paper accepted to ICML 2023

Our paper "Spherical Inducing Features for Orthogonally-Decoupled Gaussian Processes" was accepted to ICML2023 as an Oral Presentation!

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Efficient Cholesky decomposition of low-rank updates

We give a short and practical guide to efficiently computing the Cholesky decomposition of matrices perturbed by low-rank updates.

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๐Ÿ“„ One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2022

Our paper "Batch Bayesian Optimisation via Density-ratio Estimation with Guarantees", led by Rafael Oliveira, was paper accepted to NeurIPS2022!