Regular biography
Jonathan Scarlett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. He is also affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and the Institute for Data Science. His research interests include information theory, machine learning, and high-dimensional statistics. Scarlett holds a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge and a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and a B.Sci. in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne. He has been recognized with the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) fellowship and the NUS Presidential Young Professorship. His work focuses on areas such as Bayesian optimization, group testing, and safety in black-box optimization.
Scholar-generated biography
Jonathan Scarlett is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Mathematics at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on Information Theory, Machine Learning, High-dimensional Statistics, and Group Testing. His work explores the theoretical foundations of learning and inference, with applications in signal processing, optimization, and adaptive algorithms. He has published extensively on topics such as group testing, Bayesian optimization, and Gaussian process bandit optimization, emphasizing the interplay between information theory and statistical learning. His research also addresses robustness against adversarial attacks and the design of efficient algorithms for high-dimensional data.