Henry Smith

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Sequoia Hall

Palo Alto, CA 94305

My name is Henry (he/him), and I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University, where I am also a Knight-Hennessy scholar. Prior to beginning my PhD, I spent a year as a research assistant at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science. In 2022, I graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in statistics and mathematics.

I am interested in probabilistic machine learning (probabilistic ML) and, more generally, stochastic processes. As a PhD student, I hope to expand scientific understanding of modern machine learning algorithms so that they may be applied with greater confidence. I am especially excited by the issues of model interpretability and sample efficiency.

Find my CV here. My graduate studies are graciously supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP).

News

May 7, 2024 I was named a 2024 Knight-Hennessy scholar! A huge thank you to all my mentors.
Dec 19, 2023 My paper “SO(2) Equivariant Downwash Models for Close Proximity Flight” has been published by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)! :tada:
Sep 26, 2023 I started my PhD in Statistics at Stanford University. Go trees! :evergreen_tree:
Jul 31, 2023 A preprint of my paper “SO(2) Equivariant Downwash Models for Close Proximity Flight” is published on arXiv!