Rianne de Heide
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Department of Mathematics |
About me
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I work on problems and solutions in machine learning and statistics. My research focuses on sequential learning, and in particular on (sequential) hypothesis testing, Bayesian learning and best-arm identification problems. Central in my work is both bringing a solid mathematical foundation to the topics I work on in different fields, as well as making the theory accessible for less mathematical audiences. I’m also interested in the mathematical and philosophical foundations of Bayesianism, machine learning, statistics and probability theory.
Veni grant
I am very happy that NWO (the Dutch Research Council) awarded my proposal “E-values for multiple testing” a Veni grant of 280.000 euros. With this I can conduct my own research for the coming 3 years. You can read about my research plans here: https://vu.nl/en/news/2023/veni-grant-for-rianne-de-heide-s-research-into-new-mathematical-theory
(Nederlands: https://vu.nl/nl/nieuws/2023/veni-beurs-voor-onderzoek-rianne-de-heide-naar-nieuwe-wiskundige-theorie)
Cor Baayen Award
I was awarded the 2023 Cor Baayen Early Career Researcher Award (news article). Since I was on pregnancy/maternity leave in the last months of 2023, I will probably receive it and give a talk about my work in the ERCIM spring meeting in 2024.
News
February 12: An interview with me about e-values appeared in NRC, PDF, Link - in the online version one of the main mistakes in the article is corrected; unfortunately I didn't get to proofread it
Spring 2024: I teach a new B.Sc. course for mathematics students about different topics in mathematical statistics.
February 1: I am back from maternity leave.
January 24: We presented our Safe Testing paper at the discussion meeting of the Royal Statistical Society in London. news article English nieuwsbericht Nederlands picture
I was interviewed for NAW PDF
Older News
I was awarded the 2023 Cor Baayen Early Career Researcher Award (news article)
I was awarded a Veni grant (https://vu.nl/en/news/2023/veni-grant-for-rianne-de-heide-s-research-into-new-mathematical-theory)
Research
My research interests include
Bandits, Reinforcement Learning
(Sequential) hypothesis testing, multiple testing
Group invariance in statistics
Bayesian methods
Learning theory
Imprecise probabilities in statistics
Foundations of ML, stats and probability theory
Recent Publications
Safe Testing
Peter Grünwald, Rianne de Heide and Wouter Koolen
Forthcoming as disscussion paper at the JRSS-B, 2024 arxiv preprint RSS
The discussion meeting took place on January 24, 2024.Attribution-based Explanations that Provide Recourse Cannot be Robust
Hidde Fokkema, Rianne de Heide and Tim van Erven
arXiv 2205.15834, 2023 arxiv proc
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 24(360), pp.1-37.