Thank you to the prize committee! It's quite humbling to be recognized alongside Prof. Nesterov and past winners. Getting to hangout and celebrate with Ben (for the first time since Covid) made this especially cool.

Applying for PhD programs? Please consider the program at the Decision, Risk, and Operations division of Columbia. See flyer: www6.gsb.columbia.edu/attachments/dr…

Are you a PhD student interested in tackling real-world problems using ML? My team (Spotify Research) is hiring interns for next summer. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/summer-in…

This book is a timeless gem. The thing to read to get a deeper grasp of duality.

Excited to give a talk here this Friday. Come by if you're in the Boston area.

Deployable RL Workshop workshop is happening this Friday at RL_Conference. I will be moderating a panel hosting Minmin Chen, Omer Gottsman, Daniel Russo, Kaushik Subramanian and Cathy Wu. Please vote here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… to push your favorite production RL question to the top!

🚨New workshop alert 🚨 Calling all RL researchers in the New York area 🧠🗽 Present your work at the first-ever New York Reinforcement Learning Workshop (NYRL), co-organized by Amazon, Columbia Business School & NYU Tandon School of Engineering. ny-rl.com