KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Machine Learning without Stochastic Assumptions

Dr. Vladimir Vovk
University of London, UK

Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Vladimir Vovk is Professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests include machine learning; predictive and Kolmogorov complexity, randomness, and information; the foundations of probability and statistics. He has published numerous research papers in these fields and two books: "Probability and finance: It's only a game" (with Glenn Shafer, Wiley, New York, 2001; Japanese translation: Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 2006) and "Algorithmic learning in a random world" (with Alex Gammerman and Glenn Shafer, Springer, New York, 2005). He is Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society.