About the Event

Recent years have witnessed an increased cross-fertilisation between the fields of statistics and computer science. In the era of Big Data, statisticians are increasingly facing the question of guaranteeing prescribed levels of inferential accuracy within certain time budget. On the other hand, computer scientists are progressively modelling data as noisy measurements coming from an underlying population, exploiting the statistical regularities of the data to save on computation.

This cross-fertilisation has led to the development and understanding of many of the algorithmic paradigms that underpin modern machine learning, including gradient descent methods and generalisation guarantees, implicit regularisation strategies, high-dimensional statistical models and algorithms.

This event will bring together experts to talk about advances at the intersection of statistics and computer science in machine learning. This two-day long conference will focus on the underlying theory and the links with applications, and will feature 12 talks by leading international researchers.

General Information

Organizers	Quentin Berthet (Google Brain) Varun Kanade (University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science) Patrick Rebeschini (University of Oxford, Department of Statistics) Ramji Venkataramanan (University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering)
When	Monday, January 13th and Tuesday, January 14th 2020
Where	The Alan Turing Institute, London (British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB)

Invited Speakers

• Francis Bach (Centre de Recherche INRIA de Paris)
• Peter Barlett (UC Berkeley)
• Tamara Broderick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Vitaly Feldman (Google Brain)
• Florent Krzakala (Sorbonne Université)
• Garvesh Raskutti (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Lorenzo Rosasco (University of Genova)
• Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb (University of Cambridge)
• Madeleine Udell (Cornell University)
• Caroline Uhler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Jean-Philippe Vert (Google Brain)
• Rebecca Willett (University of Chicago)
• Lenka Zdeborová (Institut de Physique Théorique, France)

Sponsors

This workshop is sponsored by The Alan Turing Institute and Google