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I will also be at #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego next week presenting two papers. Please feel free to reach out. Bayesian optimization is closest to my heart but broadly I find problems related to experimental design and sequential decision making over discrete/structured spaces quite fascinating.

I am looking for 1-2 fully-funded PhD students to join my group at University of Minnesota. Please consider applying or sharing with anyone interested in working together on developing new machine learning methods and/or asking new questions inspired by scientific discovery problems.

We are organising the First International Conference on Probabilistic Numerics (ProbNum 2025) at EURECOM in southern France in Sep 2025. Topics: AI, ML, Stat, Sim, and Numerics. Reposts very much appreciated!

probnum25.github.io