Thang Duc Chu

MSc student at University of Alberta

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Hello world! Welcome to my personal webpage.

I am 1st year M.Sc. student @ University of Alberta. I am fortunately supervised by professor Csaba Szepesvari and a member of RLAI lab. I used to be a RL Community Lead @ CohereAI

I am interested in understanding rigorously machine learning algorithms. Specifically, I care about the mathematical limits of current algorithms and want to design new ones with theoretical assurances.

A current list of my interests:

  • Reinforcement Learning theory
  • Learning theory
  • Online Learning
  • (Online) Optimization
  • Symbolic AI and reasoning

Non-exhaustive list of hobbies: Brewing tea/coffee, painting and fishing.

I am a huge fan of corgis, especially Brady and Graffiti.

news

Sep 1, 2024 I will be TA again for CMPUT 267: Machine Learning 1.
Jun 30, 2024 I will attend and be a volunteer for COLT 2024. Very excited to learn more about learning theory!!
Mar 18, 2024 I am fortunately supervised by professor Csaba Szepesvári. My goal is to have a better theoretical understanding about policy gradient and actor-critic methods!
Jan 8, 2024 I will be a TA for CMPUT 267: Basics of Machine Learning taught by Nidhi Hedge.
May 28, 2023 I will join the Department of Computing Science at University of Alberta to pursue my Msc degree in Winter 2024.

latest posts

selected publications

  1. IEEE/ACM
    Graph Transformer for drug response prediction
    Thang Chu, Thuy Trang Nguyen, Bui Duong Hai, and 2 more authors
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Sep 2022