Botao Hao (郝博韬)

Ph.D. Department of Statistics Purdue University Contact Email: haobotao000@gmail.com Office: HAAS 174 Address: 250 N. University St, West Lafayette, IN 47907 [Linkedin] [Google Scholar] [CV]

News

• Oct. 2019: I have defended my Ph.D. dissertation. I will join Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Prof. Mengdi Wang.
• Sep. 2019: I will participate in "Special Year on Optimization, Statistics, and Theoretical Machine Learning" at IAS in Spring 2020.
• Sep. 2019: Two papers accepted (one in NeurIPS 2019, one in JMLR).
• May 2019: I joined Deepmind in London as a research intern mentored by Dr. Tor Lattimore and Dr. Csaba Szepesvári.
• May 2018: I joined Adobe Research in San Jose s a research intern mentored by Dr. Zheng Wen.

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence.
• Reinforcement Learning.
• Online Learning & Multi-Armed Bandits.
• Statistical Machine Learning.
• Tensor Learning.
• Recommender Systems & Online Advertising.

Journal Publications

• Nonparametric Bayesian Aggregation for Massive Data
  Zuofeng Shang, Botao Hao, Guang Cheng
  Journal of Machine Learning Research, 20(140):1−81.


• Simultaneous Clustering and Estimation of Heterogeneous Graphical Models
  Botao Hao, Will Wei Sun, Yufeng Liu, Guang Cheng
  Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18(217):1−58. [slides]

Conference Publications

• Bootstrapping Upper Confidence Bound
  Botao Hao, Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori, Zheng Wen, Guang Cheng
  Neural Information Processing Systems, 2019. [poster]

Preprints

• Adaptive Exploration in Linear Contextual Bandit
  Botao Hao, Tor Lattimore, Csaba Szepesvári
  arXiv:1910.06996 , 2019. [slides]


• Sparse Tensor Additive Regression
  Botao Hao, Boxiang Wang, Pengyuan Wang, Jingfei Zhang, Jian Yang, Will Wei Sun
  arXiv:1904.00479 , 2019.


• Sparse and Low-rank Tensor Estimation via Cubic Sketchings
  Botao Hao, Anru Zhang, Guang Cheng
  arXiv:1801.09326 , 2019. [slides]

Education

• Purdue University
  Department of Statistics
  Ph.D. candidate, 2014 - Present
  Advisor: Prof. Guang Cheng
  

• Nankai University
  School of Mathematics
  B.S. in Statistics, 2010 - 2014
  

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