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Lance Da Costa is a Machine Learning researcher at VERSES and a visiting postdoc at the ELLIS Institute Tรผbingen.ย He aims to understand intelligence, cognition and the mind, and use this knowledge to advance science, engineering and society. He has authored over 45 papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, mathematical physics and cognitive science. He received the Best Maths PhD thesis prize from Imperial College London, Best Paper awards from Entropy, and excellence awards from the American Physical Society, G-Research, Luxembourg's National Research Fund, and Imperial College London. His work has been featured by Machine Learning Street Talk, the Active Inference Institute and the Singularity project. Lance received his PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College London and Master degrees in Pure Mathematics from Cambridge University and Brain Sciences from UCL. More information can be found on his website: lancelotdacosta.com
Personal background ๐
I was born in Japan and lived in 8 different countries... and counting! ๐บ๏ธย
After work I like
Doing sports (yoga, climbing ๐งโโ๏ธ, volleyball ๐ ... anything is fun!), ideally with friends,
Spending time with friends (usually - but not always - over a delicious meal ๐),
Cooking (nothing complicated - fast, healthy, and mostly vegetarian dishes ๐ฅ),
Reading (science fiction ๐, self-help and biographies, mostly ๐).
Sleeping ๐ด. This is my number ๐ฅ activity - I sleep more than anyone I know, and probably anyone you know as well ๐ฆฅ.
On holiday, I like to discover
New places and cultures ๐ญ, and experience life like a local from another place,
New (and enjoy known) cuisines ๐ - I am a huge foodie!,
Breathtaking nature landscapes ๐๏ธ and cities ๐ฝ, sometimes through hiking, skiing โท๏ธ, sailing or mountaineering!ย
... And recharge โก๐.
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