Contact details

Email: nando at cs symbol ubc symbol ca

Office Phone: 604-822-6770
Office Fax: 604-822-5485
Office: ICCS 183

Department of Computer Science
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
201-2366 Main Mall
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4

... and now some pretty pics:

neuron neuron

neuron neuron

NEWS AND MEDIA :

  • Kevin Murphy and I are co-chairing Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2012.

    UAI 2012 venue: Catalina Island

  • The following was a successful NIPS Workshop. I believe the ideas discussed there will play an important role in the fields personalization, recommender systems, artificial intelligence, global optimization, and automatic design and configuration of algorithms, hardware, and architectures simultaneously. NIPS Bayesian Optimization
  • Our big data spin-off Zite was acquired by CNN.

    Ali Davar, Dima Brodsky, Pooya Karimina, me, Mike Klaas and Ben Frederickson

  • AISTATS 2010 demo by Ben Marlin.
  • MITACS kindly awarded me the "MITACS Young Researcher Award". I thank all my students and academic/industry collaborators for it. In BC, we have an amazing pool of talented young IT students and professionals. Slides:
  • Nando de Freitas, Monte Carlo video
    Monte Carlo lectures
  • Nando de Freitas, Monte Carlo video
    Sequential Monte Carlo     NIPS Tutorial slides:
  • If you have a strong degree in physics, math, stats, neuroscience, EE or CS, join our team by applying here
  • Interview for CTV about an art tool I designed with Eric Brochu.
  • Bayesian Interactive Optimization for Procedural Animation:
  • Introduction to machine learning video