Ciara Pike-Burke

Associate Professor in Statistics
Imperial College London

About

I am an Associate Professor in Statistics at Imperial College London. My research is in statistical machine learning. I am interested in sequential decision making problems under uncertainty and potentially limited feedback. In particular, I work on multi-armed bandit, reinforcement learning and online learning problems.

Prior to joining Imperial, I was a postdoc at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) working with Gabor Lugosi and Gergely Neu. I received my PhD from Lancaster University as part of the STOR-i program, supervised by Steffen Grünewälder and Anton Altmann at Sparx.

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