I am an incoming tenure-track faculty at INSAIT, where I work on machine learning, starting in May 2023.
Dr. Nikola Konstantinov
My research interests lie in the area of trustworthy machine learning and I am especially interested in providing mathematical guarantees for machine learning models.
Contact: [email protected]
Sample of specific topics I am currently working on are:
- Making collaborative learning methods, such as federated learning, more robust and reliable.
- Studying topics at the intersection of machine learning and game theory, in particular incentives for data sharing.
- Understanding the impact of machine learning on society, in particular by analysing the fairness and long-term impact of machine learning models.
Academic degrees:
- Postdoctoral fellow at the ETH AI Center, working under the supervision of Prof. Martin Vechev and Prof. Fanny Yang (2022-2023)
- PhD student at IST Austria, working in the group of Prof. Christoph Lampert. I was also part of the ELLIS PhD Program.
- Masters’ degree in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Oxford (2013-2017)
- I attended the Sofia High School of Mathematics (2005-2013)
Awards and recognitions:
- Member of the ELLIS Society since April 2023
- ETH AI Center postdoctoral fellowship in 2022
- Nomination for best PhD thesis award at IST Austria in 2022
- Member of the ELLIS PhD Program during 2021-2022
- Davies Prize awarded by Jesus College, Oxford, for the most outstanding performance in a Finals Honours School, 2017
- Department of Statistics Prize for FHS Mathematics and Statistics Part A, University of Oxford, 2015
- Bronze Medal at the Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad (JBMO), 2008
While at Oxford, I was also the President of the Oxford University Bulgarian Society (2015-2016).
