Omar Rivasplata

Omar Rivasplata

Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning

University of Manchester

Personal Webpage

I am Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Machine Learning in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.

I am a member of the Centre for AI Fundamentals and a supervisor in the UKRI AI CDT in Decision Making for Complex Systems. I am also a member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems.

My research is on machine learning, theory and practice. That said, I tend to have a broad interest in various aspects of the mathematical and statistical foundations of machine learning and AI in general. In the limit of tending to praxis, I work on designing strategies to train and certify machine learning models. Previously, I have led or been a contributor to projects on offline reinforcement learning, generative models, PAC-Bayes bounds for deep learning and kernel classifiers, among other.

Further information about me and my work can be found in my Personal Webpage.

Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Statistical Learning Theory
  • Risk bounds, PAC-Bayes
  • Optimisation & Certification
  • Probabilistic Methods