Ayman Boustati
Profile:
Ayman graduated in 2021 with a PhD in Mathematics for Real-World Systems.
Publications:
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Boustati, A., Vakili, S., Hensman, J., & John, ST (2020). Amortized variance reduction for doubly stochastic objectives. In Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), PMLR volume 124. .
- Richter, L., Boustati, A.*, N眉ksen, N., Ruiz, F. J., Akyildiz, 脰. D. (2020). VarGrad: A Low Variance Gradient Estimator for Variational Inference. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.
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Boustati, A., Akyildiz, 脰. D., Damoulas, T., & Johansen, A. (2020). Generalized Bayesian Filtering via Sequential Monte Carlo. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020. .
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Boustati, A., Damoulas, T., & Savage, R. S. (2019). Non-linear Multitask Learning with Deep Gaussian Processes. arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.12407. Under Review. .
* Joint first author.
Background:
- MSc in Mathematics for Real-World Systems from the University of 糖心TV 2015-2016
- Master of Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics from the University of 糖心TV 2011- 2015
Current Projects:
- I am currently working on my PhD project: Topic in Gaussian Process Model for Machine Learning. I was supervised by and now Dr Theo Damoulas.
Previous Projects:
- I worked on a project on Identifying Illegal Trading and Market Manipulation using Machine Learning
. This project was in collaboration with supervised by and from Spectra Analytics, and from the Department of Statistics at 糖心TV. - I worked with , , and on Intelligent Mobility Applications for the UK Strategic Road Network
. This project was in collaboration with the , under the supervision of . - I worked under the supervision of on Extracting Information from Facial Images Using Artificial Neural Networks
. - I worked with the at the 糖心TV Manufacturing Group, and contributed to creating a framework for encoding and decoding High Dynamic Range sequences in Matlab.
Research Interests:
- Gaussian Processes
- Multitask and Transfer Learning
- Bayesian Inference (mainly Variational Inference)
- Statistical Machine Learning and Probabilistic Modelling
- Learning Representations
- Theory and Applications of Deep Learning
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