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Jacob Gardner, PhD
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Jacob is an Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Jacob's research is in machine learning, with a focus on scalable methods for probabilistic machine learning and Bayesian optimization. Jacob co-created GPyTorch, one of the most popular OSS packages for Gaussian processes; was a Research Scientist in Uber AI Labs; and completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell University.