Tim van Erven
Welcome to my homepage. After six years at CWI, last August I've moved to the other side of Amsterdam to do a postdoc in the group of Aad van der Vaart at the VU University. My current office is in the building called "Wis- and Natuurkundegebouw" on Google maps.
Going to Paris...
I've just been awarded a Rubicon grant by the Dutch science foundation to go to Paris for two years, and do a postdoc with famous learning theorist Pascal Massart. (The Rubicon link is to Leiden University, from which I obtained my PhD, because they have an announcement in English.)
We are going to develop new statistical techniques that will allow scientists to work with models that are simplifications of reality, because often the real world is just too complicated to allow anything but simplified explanations.
Research Interests
My main topics of interest are currently:
- Information Theory in Statistics, MDL
- Bayesian Model Selection and Consistency of the Posterior
- Statistical Learning Theory, PAC-Bayes
- Online Learning
This is reflected by my publications. For example, the first chapter of my PhD thesis provides a general introduction to the minimum description length (MDL) principle.
News
Got a Rubicon Grant!
January, 2012: The Dutch Science Foundation has awarded me a Rubicon grant to do a two-year postdoc with Pascal Massart. I'll be moving to Paris in February...
Moved to VU University
August, 2011: After six years at CWI, I've now moved to the VU University.
Finished PhD!
November 23, 2010: I've succesfully defended my PhD thesis.
Student Paper Award
August 25, 2009: Our Catching Up Faster by Switching Sooner paper won second prize in the student paper competition of the Risk Analysis Section of the American Statistical Association.
Contact Information
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Dr. T.A.L. van Erven tim No spam, please @timvanerven. No really, no spam nl Room: R-319 |
Section
Stochastics Department of Mathematics Faculty of Sciences Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1081a 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands |
