General information:

Prof. Dr. Markus Loecher has been a professor of mathematics and statistics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin) since 2011. His research interests include machine learning, spatial statistics, data visualisation and sequential learning. Prior to joining HWR Berlin he worked as principal and lead scientist at various data analytics companies in the United States. He obtained a PhD in physics and a master degree in statistics from Rutgers University.

He holds 8 patents in machine learning and sensor analytics and is the author of the popular R packages RgoogleMaps (using Web map tiles within R), bandit (multi-arm bandits and Thompson sampling) and rfVarImpOOB (unbiased variable importance in random forests). Markus has published a book as well as >20 refereed articles in international journals.

This seminar will be organised in a hybrid setup. If you are interested in joining this seminar, please send an email to the secretariat of Amsterdam Business School at secbs-abs@uva.nl.