- 5–10 Mar 2025: I attend the workhsop on Frontiers of Statistics and Machine Learning in Oberwolfach.
- 15 Nov 2024: I speak at Stef Baas' PhD defence symposium at the University of Twente.
- 8 Nov 2024: I speak at the e-Day at CWI.
- 7 Nov 2024: I speak at the Dutch Day on Optimization at the University of Twente.
- 26 Oct 2024: I compete for team CWI in the Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest.
- Sep 2024 - Feb 2025: Welcome MSc student Jonna van Doorn from the Free University.
- Q2 2024: I am looking for a postdoc on computing saddle points co-hosted by CWI and INRIA in the 4TUNE team.
- 18–21 Jun 2024: I speak at the Mathematics of Machine Learning Workshop at ETH Zurich [slides].
- 5 Jun 2024: I speak at the Booking.com Data Science Seminar. [slides]
- 5–10 May 2024: I attend the workshop on Game-theoretic Statistical Inference: Optional Sampling, Universal Inference, and Multiple Testing Based on E-values in Oberwolfach. [slides]
- 25 Apr 2024: I give a workshop about A/B testing at the AI020 career event. [slides]
- Q1 2024: I look for a postdoc on adaptive sequential testing.
- 13 Apr 2024: I cycle the Amstel Gold Race with team CWI.
- 26–28 Feb 2024: I speak at the ELLIS workshop on Interactive Learning and Interventional Representations in Oberwolfach. [slides]
- 24 Jan 2024: Our paper Safe Testing is presented at the Royal Statistical Society.
- Feb-Sep 2024: Welcome MSc student Tim Huitema from the University of Twente.
- 11–16 Dec 2023: I present at NeurIPS. Come visit our poster on Wed.
- 23–24 Nov 2023: I attend the Workshop on Bandits and Statistical Tests in Potsdam.
- 17 Nov 2023: I speak in the control seminar at KTH Stockholm [slides].
- 16 Nov 2023: Opponent in the PhD ceremony of Kaito Ariu at KTH Stockholm.
- 14–15 Nov 2023: I attend the Stochastics Meeting Lunteren.
- 13 Nov 2023: Member of the committee for the PhD ceremony of Étienne de Montbrun at the University of Toulouse.
- 6 Nov 2023: I speak at the Mathematics of Data Science Seminar at the University of Twente [slides].
- 28 Oct 2023: I compete for team CWI in the Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest. We ended 🥈 company team.
- 13 Oct 2023: I speak at the INRIA Lille SCOOL seminar [slides].
- 13–14 Sep 2023: I speak at the Kick-off conference International research collaboration Inria-CWI at CWI [slides].
- Spring 2023: I serve on the senior program committee for COLT 2023.
- Spring 2023: I organize the Machine Learning Theory Research Semester Programme at CWI.
- 9 Jun 2023: I speak at the Reinforcement Learning Network Seminar at the University of Twente [slides].
- 1–2 Jun 2023: I speak at the Second workshop on AI and Mathematics at the University of Twente [slides].
- Jun-Jul 2023: Welcome ELLIS PhD intern Hao Qiu from the Università degli Studi di Milano.
- 12 Apr 2023: I host the Machine Learning Theory Mid-Semester Lecture as part of the
Research Semester Programme at CWI.
- 30–31 Mar 2023: I attend the Game AI workshop at University of Maastricht [slides].
- 1 Mar 2023: I speak at the Networks & Optimization Seminar at CWI [slides].
- Feb 14 2023: I host the Machine Learning Theory Launch Lecture as part of the
Research Semester Programme at CWI.
- Feb 14–15 2023: I host the Machine Learning Theory Boot Camp as part of the
Research Semester Programme at CWI.
- 27 Nov 2022: I compete for CWI in the NWERC ICPC programming contest.
- Nov 2022: I speak at the 15th Young European Queueing Theorists Workshop at EURANDOM [slides].
- 5 Sep 2022: I speak at the INRIA Lille SCOOL seminar [slides].
- 5–6 Oct 2022: I attend the ELLIS Workshop on Interactive Learning and Interventional Representations in Altglashütten, black forest, Germany.
- Jan-Jun 2023: Welcome MSc student Frits Tuininga from the University of Twente.
- 22–23 Jul 2022: I co-organize the Complex feedback in online learning workshop at ICML.
- 11–15 Jun 2022: I speak at the Reinforcement Learning Summer School at the Free University Amsterdam [slides].
- 14–28 Jun 2022: Research visit by Shubhada Agrawal from TIFR Mumbai.
- Jun 1 2022: I am appointed professor of mathematical machine learning at the University of Twente.
- 30 May - Jun 3 2022: I speak at the Safe, Anytime-Valid Inference Workshop at EURANDOM, Eindhoven [slides].
- 25 May 2022: I organize the A/B Testing Workshop at CWI [videos]. I am also one of the speakers [slides].
- Spring 2022: I serve on the senior program committee for COLT 2022.
- 19/20 Apr 2022: I speak at the Dutch Mathematical Congress [slides].
- Mar-Sep 2022: Welcome MSc student Max Meijer from the University of Amsterdam.
- 17 Mar 2022: My former PhD student Rianne de Heide wins the VVSOR Willem R. van Zwet award.
- 28 Jan 2022: I present at the INRIA Lille SCOOL Seminar [slides].
- Jan-Sep 2022: Welcome MSc students Julia Kowalska and Francesco Gili from the University of Amsterdam.
- 6–14 Dec 2021: I present at NeurIPS virtually. Come visit our posters on Tue and Wed.
- 15–19 Nov 2021: I speak at the Theory of Reinforcement Learning reunion workshop at the Simons Institute, UC Berkeley [slides].
- 15–17 Nov 2021: I will be at the Stochastics Meeting Lunteren.
- 30 Oct 2021: I compete for team CWI2 in the Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest.
- 20–21 Oct 2021: I speak at the Google Learning Theory Workshop.
- Fall 2021: I serve on the senior program committee for ALT 2022.
- 19 Oct 2021: I give a guest lecture in the Reinforcement Learning course at the UvA [slides].
- 11–16 Jul 2021: I am a discussant for the Hypothesis testing with e-values session of the ISI World Statistics Congress [slides].
- Spring 2021: I teach Machine Learning Theory for MasterMath with Tim van Erven.
- Spring 2021: I serve on the senior program committee for COLT.
- 10 Feb 2021: First seminar meeting of the OPTIMAL consortium.
- Fall 2020: I attend the Theory of Reinforcement Learning program at the Simons Institute, UC Berkeley.
- 12 Dec 2020: I compete with team CWI2 in the Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest.
- 10 Dec 2020: I speak at Booking.com research about pure eploration [slides].
- 2 Dec 2020: Elected Ellis Scholar.
- 13 Nov 2020: Long-form Interview on the Machine Learning Street Talk youtube channel.
- 26–30 Oct 2020: I speak at the Mathematics of Online Decision Making workshop at the Simons Institute [slides] [video].
- 24 Sep 2020: I attend the online 4th CWI-Inria Workshop, with presentations by both the 4TUNE and 6PAC teams.
- 23 Sep 2020: I present my Max-of-Means open problem in the Simons Theory of RL program.
- 31 Aug 2020: Alan Malek and I give the Online Learning and Bandits tutorial in the Theory of Reinforcement Learning Boot Camp [slides] [video].
- Summer 2020: I serve as NeurIPS area chair.
- 13–18 Jul 2020: I present at ICML virtually. Come visit poster 6523 on Wed (#22) or Thu (#33).
- Jun-Jul 2020: I handle the registration for COLT.
- Jun 2020: Launch of the 4TUNE associate team with Bach, Gaillard, Taylor (INRIA Paris) and Grünwald (CWI).
- 23 Apr 2020: I am the discussant for Aaditya Ramdas' talk in the International Seminar on Selective Inference [video] [slides].
- 4–7 Mar 2020: I speak at the ELLIS Workshop on Interactive Learning and Interventional Representations in Oberwolfach [slides].
- Mar-Jul 2020: Welcome intern Louis-Sébastien Rebuffi from ENS Lyon.
- 28 Feb 2020: I will speak at the National NeurIPS Debriefing.
- Feb-Oct 2020: Welcome MSc student Thomas Schiet from Delft University of Technology.
- Feb-Sep 2020: Welcome MSc student Guanyu Jin from Leiden University.
- Jan 2020: The 4TUNE associate team proposal with Bach, Gaillard, Taylor (INRIA Paris) and Grünwald (CWI) is granted.
- 6–11 Jan 2020: I visit Sandeep Juneja at TIFR Mumbai.
- 3–4 Jan 2020: I speak at the Workshop on Learning Theory 2 in Mumbai [slides].
- Spring 2020: I serve on the senior program committee for COLT.
- 9–14 Dec 2019: I present at NeurIPS in Vancouver. Come visit posters Tue #17 and Wed #8.
- Dec 2019: I am joining the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science.
- 2–18 Oct 2019: Research visit by Sébastien Gerchinovitz from Toulouse.
- 4 Oct 2019: I speak at the
CWI Scientific Meeting
[slides].
- 25–26 Sep 2019: I speak at the Lancaster/Deepmind
Multi Armed Bandit Workshop
in London [slides].
- 17–18 Sep 2019: I attend the 3rd CWI-Inria Workshop in Amsterdam.
- Fall 2019: I teach Machine Learning Theory for MasterMath with Rianne de Heide and Peter Grünwald.
- Summer 2019: I serve as NeurIPS area chair.
- Jul 2019: I attend ISIPTA in Ghent. Poster on Saturday.
- Jun 2019: I attend COLT in Phoenix. Talk + poster on Tuesday.
- May-Jun 2019: Welcome summer intern Antoine Simoes from ENS Lyon.
- Spring 2019: I serve as ICML area chair. I also serve on the program committee for COLT.
- 22 Mar 2019: I speak at Google Brain Zurich [slides].
- 19–22 Mar 2019: I speak at the YES Workshop [slides].
- May-Jul 2019: Han Shao won a CWI Internship.
- 14 Feb 2019: I will speak at the National NeurIPS Debriefing.
- 12–15 Feb 2019: Project 6PAC research visit by Emilie Kaufmann from Lille.
- Jan-Feb 2019: Research visit by Zakaria Mhammedi from ANU.
- Dec 2018: I present at NeurIPS in Montréal. Come visit poster 147 on Thursday.
- 19 Nov 2018: I am invited speaker at BeNeRL in Delft [slides].
- 15–19 Oct 2018: Research week with Aurélien Garivier and Emilie Kaufmann at ENS Lyon. MCTS day on the 18th with Tristan Cazenave, Sylvain Delattre and Bruno Scherrer.
- Fall 2018: I host a reading group on Pure Exploration at CWI. All are welcome.
- 1–3 Oct 2018: I attend the European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL14) in Lille.
- Sep 25–26 2018: I speak at the 2nd CWI-Inria Workshop in Paris [slides].
- Sep 10–13 2018: I attend the Workshop Optimization and Learning in Toulouse.
- Sep 2018: My contributed article Sub-Gaussians in game-theoretic probability appears in the Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde.
- Fall 2018: I teach Machine Learning Theory for MasterMath with Rianne de Heide and Peter Grünwald.
- Sep 2018: Rémy Degenne (Université Paris Diderot / ENS Paris-Saclay) joins as a postdoc.
- Fall 2018: I serve on the program committee for ALT.
- Jun 2018: I obtained tenure at CWI.
- Summer 2018: I serve as NIPS area chair.
- Jul 2018: I attend COLT and ICML in Stockholm.
- 7–8 Jun 2018: Yearly ACM FCA meeting in Turin.
- 14–18 May 2018: Research visit to INRIA Lille.
- May 2018: CWI ML group video
- 18–21 Mar 2018: Research visit by Emilie Kaufmann and Benjamin Guedj from Lille.
- 4 Apr 2018: I speak at the Dutch Mathematical Congress session on machine learning [slides].
- Spring 2018: I serve on the program committees for COLT and ICML. I am the COLT open problems chair.
- 16–30 Mar 2018: I visit Alan Malek and Sasha Rakhlin at MIT and Ohad Shamir at Microsoft in Boston.
- 28 Feb 2018: I will speak at the National NIPS Debriefing.
- 27 Feb-2 Mar 2018: Research visit by Emilie Kaufmann from Lille.
- 23 Feb 2018: I will speak at the Machine Learning and Statistics for Structures Thematic Seminar [slides].
- Feb 2018: Launch of CWI/INRIA associate team 6PAC.
- Fall 2017: I serve on the program committee for ALT.
- 16 Jun 2017: I speak at the
CWI Scientific Meeting
.
- Fall 2017: I teach Machine Learning Theory for MasterMath with Rianne de Heide and Peter Grünwald.
- Dec 2017: I present at NIPS in Los Angeles. Come visit posters 3 on Tuesday and 58 on Wednesday.
- 26–29 Nov 2017: I visit Aurélien Garivier and Emilie Kaufmann at the Université Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse.
- 23–24 Nov 2017: Research visit by Csaba Szepesvári from Deepmind.
- 23 Nov 2017: We are organising the Machine Learning CWI Lecures.
- 9–14 Nov 2017: I visit Volodya Vovk at Royal Holloway.
- Nov 2017: I join Amsterdam Data Science.
- 30 Oct - 3 Nov 2017: I will be at the ANR SPADRO workshop in Sète, France.
- 20 Oct 2017: I will speak at the Online Learning workshop at Télécom ParisTech [slides].
- 24–29 Sep 2017: I participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
- 18–22 Sep 2017: Research visit by Emilie Kaufmann from Lille.
- 19–20 Sep 2017: I will be at the CWI-INRIA workshop in Amsterdam.
- Jun 2017: I join the ACM Future of Computing Academy.
- Summer 2017: With Tim van Erven I take on the local organisation for COLT'17, Amsterdam.
- Spring 2017: I serve on the program committees for COLT, ICML and ALT.
- Spring 2017: I host a reading group on Concentration Inequalities at CWI. All are welcome.
- Spring 2017: I run the Machine Learning Reading Group at CWI. All are welcome.
- May 2017: I visit Aurélien Garivier and Sébastien Gerchinovitz
at the Université Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse.
- 12 May 2017: I give the UvA ILPS lunch talk [slides].
- Apr 2017: I obtained a tenure track position in the CWI machine learning group.
- Apr 2017: I visit Aurélien Garivier and Sébastien Gerchinovitz
at the Université Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse. I will give a talk on Thursday 6 April [slides].
- 2 Mar 2017: I visit Adobe Research, San Jose and talk about MetaGrad and Game Tree Search.
- 27 Feb 2017: I talk about Combining Adversarial Guarantees and Fast Rates in Online Learning at the Simons Institute.
- 10 Feb 2017: With Manfred Warmuth I host a reading group on the
benefits of sleeping for neural networks at the Simons Institute.
- Jan-Feb 2017: I attend the Foundations of Machine Learning program at the Simons Institute, UC Berkeley.
- Dec 2016: I present at NIPS in Barcelona, Spain. Come visit posters 76 and 187 on Tuesday.
- 21–24 Nov 2016: Research visit by Emilie Kaufmann from Lille.
- 14–16 Nov 2016: I will be at the Stochastics Meeting Lunteren 2016.
- 7–11 Nov 2016: I attend the Lorentz workshop on Theoretical Foundations for Learning from Easy Data.
- Fall 2016: I visit Kohei Hatano and Eiji Takimoto at Kyushu University.
- 20–22 Sep 2016: I lecture about online learning and easy data at the ELC fall school on theoretical computer science, Japan.
- Jun 2016: I attend ICML and COLT in New York, then visit Boston. I will talk at MIT on Thursday.
- Jun 2016: I am teaching a project course on game-theoretic probability at the ILLC/UvA.
- Spring 2016: I serve on the program committees for COLT, ICML and ALT.
- Mar 2016: I uploaded the MetaGrad source code.
- Apr 2016: I visit Emilie Kaufmann at INRIA/CRIStAL, Lille. Talk on Friday 15 April.
- Mar 2016: I speak at the Learning and Optimization workshop of the DALI meeting in Italy.
- Feb 2016, wk 8: I visit Yevgeny Seldin, Olivier Wintenberger and Pierre Gaillard in Copenhagen. Talk on Wednesday.
- Jan 2016: Launched the CWI Machine Learning Reading Group. All are welcome.
- Jan 2016: I will attend the Multi-armed Bandit Workshop in Lancaster, UK.
- Dec 2015: I will present at NIPS in Montreal, Canada. Come visit poster 98 on Monday.
- Nov 2015: I uploaded the Squint source code.
- Dec 2015: Our paper Minimax Time Series Prediction will be in the NIPS Time Series Workshop 2015.
- Dec 2015: We are organizing the Learning Faster from Easy Data II workshop at NIPS.
- 27 Nov 2015: I speak at the
CWI Scientific Meeting
.
- Nov 2015: I will be at the Stochastics Meeting Lunteren 2015.
- Aug 2015: I visit Vovk and Adamskiy at Royal Holloway, University of London.
- Jul 2015: I will present at COLT in Paris, France.
- Jul 2015: I will attend ICML in Lille, France.
- May and Jun 2015: I visit Manfred Warmuth at the University of California, Santa Cruz..
- Mar 29 2015: Launched all-new research blog.
- Mar 2015: I will attend the Information Theory, Learning and Big Data Workshop in Berkeley, USA.
- Feb 28 2015: Revamped website (previous page).
- Spring 2015: I serve on the program committees for IJCAI (ML track), COLT and ALT.
- Summer 2015: I will take up a postdoc position at CWI funded by my NWO VENI grant Learning at the Intrinsic Task Pace.
- Dec 2014: I will present at NIPS in Montreal, Canada. Come visit posters 20 and 22 on Monday.
- Nov 2014: I will present at the Online Algorithms and Learning workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Nov 2014: I will present at the Fifth Workshop on Game Theoretic Probability and Related Topics in Guanajuato, Mexico.
- Nov 2014: I visit Manfred Warmuth at the University of California, Santa Cruz..
- Sep 2014: I will present at the Large-scale Online Learning and Decision Making Workshop in Windsor, UK.
- Jun 2014: I will present at COLT in Barcelona, Spain.
- May 2014: I am visiting András György at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
- NIPS 2013 workshop:
Learning Faster from Easy Data
Tuesday December 10th at NIPS 2013.
Co-organised with Peter Grünwald and Sasha Rakhlin.
- NIPS 2013 workshop: Large Scale Matrix Analysis and Inference
Monday December 9th at NIPS 2013.
Co-organised with Reza Bosagh Zadeh, Gunnar Carlsson, Michael Mahoney and Manfred Warmuth.
- Jun 2013: I will attend ICML in Atlanta, USA.
- Jun 2013: I will present at COLT in Princeton, USA.
- Dec 2012: I will present at NIPS in Lake Tahoe, USA.
- Oct 2012: I will present at ALT in Lyon, France.
- Sep 2012: I will present at the Large-scale Online Learning and Decision Making Workshop in Windsor, UK.
- Aug 2012: I will present at WITMSE in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Jun 2012: I will attend COLT in Edinburgh, UK.
- Spring 2012: I will serve on the program committee for ALT.