Academic

I am a visiting faculty member of the Computer Science department at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. This means that I advise research students and collaborate on research, but am not get paid by the university. Everyone is happy.

Research interests

My current research is related to the field of probabilistic programming and Bayesian statistical modelling. In particular, I am interested in defining the kinds of models which can be efficiently represented and reasoned upon by means of probabilistic programming, on one hand, and in application of probabilistic programming to other areas, such as computational health, robotics, or human-computer interaction, on the other hand.

Publications

My publications are on Google scholar. Some recent publications on probabilistic programming:

Probabilistic programs with stochastic conditioning pmlr, arxiv
Deployable probabilistic programming acm, arxiv
Design and implementation of probabilistic programming language Anglican acm, arxiv
Black-box policy search with probabilistic programs pmlr

Teaching

From 2019 to 2021, I had taught two courses at the department.

Applied Bayesian Data Analysis — course site, recorded lectures.
Applications of Mathematics in Computer Science — course site, recorded lectures.

Ongoing projects

Infergo — a probabilistic programming facility in Go.
GoGP — a library on probabilistic programming around Gaussian processes.