Tim van Erven
Welcome to my homepage. My name is Tim van Erven and I'm a PhD student under the supervision of Peter Grünwald at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), which is the research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. I'm located in an extension of the CWI building that has not shown up yet on this satellite image on Google maps.
My research centers on learning using the minimum description length (MDL) principle (although this may not be directly obvious from my publications). I have also taught a course on machine learning at the vrije Universiteit.
News
Student Paper Award
August 25, 2009: Our Catching Up Faster by Switching Sooner paper won second prize in the student paper competition of the Risk Analysis Section of American Statistical Association.
Learning the Switching Rate
February 19, 2009: Finished the paper Learning the Switching Rate by Discretising Bernoulli Sources Online together with Steven de Rooij.
Catching Up Faster by Switching Sooner
July 14, 2008: Peter Grünwald, Steven de Rooij and I finished a preprint paper titled Catching Up Faster by Switching Sooner: A Prequential Solution to the AIC-BIC Dilemma. This paper describes the catch-up phenomenon and the switch distribution.
Contact Information
Tim van Erven
CWI,
P.O. Box 94079, NL-1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-20-5924244
E-mail: Tim.van.Erven No spam, please @cwi. No really, no spam nl
