Boston Computation Club

09/17/23: Open Problems in Probabilistic Programming Semantics with Eli Sennesh


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Eli Sennesh is a recent graduate of the PhD program in computer science at Northeastern, in which I (Max) and many other BCC group members are currently enrolled. Eli's research is highly interdisciplinary, taking into consideration various topics in mathematics (statistics, measure theory, probability theory, optimization), programming language theory, and neuroscience, with the unifying goal of building useful probabilistic programming languages. Today Eli joined us to discuss that research, with a particular emphasis on important open problems -- problems which he intends to study as a post-doc! This was a fun one and an excellent introduction to the world of probabilistic programming, and we really appreciate that Eli took time out of his weekend to come talk to us.

  • Eli's website: https://esennesh.github.io/
  • Eli's advisor's book on probabilistic programming: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756
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