Alex Gittens
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States of America
Biography
Rensselaer as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in 2017, Dr. Gittens was a research scientist at eBay Research Labs and a postdoctoral scholar at the International Institute of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley. His interests lie in applying randomness to computational linear algebra, machine learning, and statistics, and are motivated by the goal of efficiently extracting information from massive data sets while maintaining guarantees on rigor and accuracy.
Research Interest
Kernel Methods, Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra, Large-scale Machine Learning
Publications
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Christos Boutsidis and Alex Gittens. "Improved matrix algorithms via the subsampled randomized Hadamard transform". SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Volume 34, Number 3, 2013.
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Raffay Hamid and Ying Xiao and Alex Gittens and Dennis DeCoste. "Compact Random Feature Maps". ICML, 2014.
