David Duvenaud

David Duvenaud

First Name: 
David
Last Name: 
Duvenaud
Title: 
Associate Professor | On Leave
Phone : 
416-976-8483
Office Location : 
Ontario Power Building, 700 University Ave., Room: 9198
Biography : 

David Duvenaud is an assistant professor in computer science and statistics at the University of Toronto. He holds a Canada Research Chair in generative models. His postdoctoral research was done at Harvard University, where he worked on hyperparameter optimization, variational inference, and chemical design. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, studying Bayesian nonparametrics with Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen. David spent two summers in the machine vision team at Google Research, and also co-founded Invenia, an energy forecasting and trading company.

Personal Website: 
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Machine Learning
  • Approximate Bayesian Inference
  • Generative Models
Cross-Appointments: 
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

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David Duvenaud is an associate professor at the U of T Department of Statistical Sciences and the Department of Computer Science.