Myself, circa 2016

http303 -> 127.0.0.1

Kelowna, BC

I am a MSc student in mathematics at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus. I am working under the supervision of Yves Lucet. I graduated virtually from McGill University with a BSc in mathematics and computer science.

### Research

Current: nothing for now! just taking neat classes.

In the near future: optimization for road design applications

#### Timeline

##### 2020
• Worked on a neat class (MATH562 at UBCO with Warren Hare) project which involved investigating surrogate problems in (black box) optimization.
• I wrote a small document to gather my thoughts (as well as data and figures) in preparing for a presentation.
• Coding in MATLAB + Python was involved, code is available on GitHub
• Worked on a project that aims to provide a measure of confidence that a deep neural network has given some classification task
• Pre-print on arXiv
• Recently chosen for a spotlight presentation at the ICML 2020 Uncertainty & Robustness in Deep Learning (UDL) workshop
##### 2019
• Worked with Aram-Alexandre Pooladian on a project involving Deep Learning (DL) perturbation attacks using a Langevin dynamics based approach (preprint)
• Worked on an algorithm that became the No-collision transportation maps paper
• It fares well empirically for approximating the optimal transport solution in $$\mathbb{R}^n$$, $$n > 1$$ using $$\ell_1^2, \ell_2^2, \ell_\infty^2, \ell_2$$ as measures
• A poster (pdf) was presented the NeurIPS 2019 OTML workshop in December 2019)
• Pre-print on arXiv, code on GitHub
##### Interests
• Optimization
• Optimal transport
• Numerical methods
• Machine learning
• Distributed and parallel computing

I hope to specify further as stronger interests develop.

#### Small Talk Topics

##### Some hobbies of mine that do not pertain to the above
• Bicycles: cycling, maintenance, etc.
• Collecting (vinyl) records, high-fidelity sound
• Almost anything digital: repair, building, design, etc.
• Photography (sometimes with artistic distortion), graphic design and typography
• Tinkering in the vain of N-O-D-E’s projects
##### Languages (spoken + written):
• English
• French
• ~Italian (looking to improve)

## news

Oct 23, 2020 I will be giving a talk on the No-collision transportation maps work at the COCANA on January 14 March 4, 2021 via Zoom. Work on using Out-of-Distribution (OOD) data to calibrate deep neural networks has been accepted to the UDL workshop!

## selected publications

1. JSC
No-Collision Transportation Maps
2020