Invited talks

Upcoming talks

  • Structure-driven design of reinforcement learning algorithms: a tale of two estimators, Northwestern University, Nov 2024

  • Continuous-time reinforcement learning: blessings of diffusion structures and high-order approximations, CMS Winter Meeting, Vancouver, Dec 2024

Past talks

  • Structure-driven design of reinforcement learning algorithms: a tale of bootstrapping and rollout, Georgia Institute of Technology, Nov 2024

  • To bootstrap or to rollout? An optimal and adaptive interpolation, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, Oct 2024

  • A decorrelation method for general regression adjustment in randomized experiments, IMS-Bernoulli World Congress, Bochum, Aug 2024

  • Optimal stochastic approximation under general norms with applications to reinforcement learning, Shanghai Jiaotong University, July 2024

  • To bootstrap or to rollout? An optimal and adaptive interpolation, International Conference on Frontiers of Data Science, Hangzhou, Jul 2024

  • A decorrelation method for general regression adjustment in randomized experiments, Banff International Research Station, Feb 2024

  • Policy Evaluation With General Function Approximation: Efficient Algorithms And Instance-dependent Guarantees, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Oct 2023

  • 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

  • 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