Education and Early Career:

  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science (Expected Aug. 2026), Supervisor: Jurgen Schmidhuber, Director of KAUST AI Initiative and Professor of Computer Science.

  • Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia

Master of Science in Computer Science (Apr. 2019), Thesis: Machine Learning Hyperparameter Tuning via Bayesian Optimization Exploiting, Monotonicity, Co-supervisors: William James Welch, Professor, Department of Statistics
Alan Wagner, Professor, Department of Computer Science.

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

Honors Bachelor's Degree of Mathematics (Dec. 2014),Thesis: Imaging in a Homogeneous Aluminum Plate by Using Ultrasonic Waves. Advisor: Fernando Guevara Vasquez, Associate Professor, Mathematics Department.

Research Interest:

Recursive Self-Modification, Multiagent Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Continue Learning,
Meta Learning, Artificial General Intelligence.

 

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Jürgen Schmidhuber

Director, KAUST AI Initiative
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