Alexander Terenin

About

I’m an artificial intelligence researcher specializing in algorithmic decision-making under uncertainty. I’ve recently decided to leave academia in order to pursue something new. Before this, I worked on fundamental machine learning research, spanning both theory and empirical work on classical models, at Cornell University (as faculty), the University of Cambridge (as postdoc), and Imperial College London (PhD).

Research. I’ve published approximately 25 machine learning papers, all of them at top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) or equivalently selective venues. I’ve also won best paper awards (or runner-up) twice, at ICML and AISTATS. For more information about my papers, see below.

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Writing

2026-03-19·The Road Less Traveled
2026-01-31·Where Are We and What Now?
2023-10-04·On Successful Research
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Research Areas and Selected Papers by Topic

Cost-aware Bayesian Optimization via the Pandora's Box Gittins Index

NeurIPS 2024

Cost-aware Bayesian Optimization via the Pandora's Box Gittins Index

NeurIPS 2024

Multi-objective Bayesian optimisation for design of Pareto-optimal current drive profiles in STEP

IEEE TPS 2024

Geometry-aware Bayesian Optimization in Robotics using Riemannian Matérn Kernels

CoRL 2021

Pathwise Conditioning of Gaussian Processes

JMLR 2021

Efficiently Sampling Functions from Gaussian Process Posteriors

ICML 2020

Stochastic Gradient Descent for Gaussian Processes Done Right

ICLR 2024

Numerically Stable Sparse Gaussian Processes via Minimum Separation using Cover Trees

JMLR 2024

Sampling from Gaussian Process Posteriors using Stochastic Gradient Descent

NeurIPS 2023

Pathwise Conditioning of Gaussian Processes

JMLR 2021

Efficiently Sampling Functions from Gaussian Process Posteriors

ICML 2020

The GeometricKernels Package: Heat and Matérn Kernels for Geometric Learning on Manifolds, Meshes, and Graphs

JMLR 2025

Stochastic Poisson Surface Reconstruction with One Solve using Geometric Gaussian Processes

ICML 2025

Stationary Kernels and Gaussian Processes on Lie Groups and their Homogeneous Spaces II: non-compact symmetric spaces

JMLR 2024

Stationary Kernels and Gaussian Processes on Lie Groups and their Homogeneous Spaces I: the compact case

JMLR 2024

Posterior Contraction Rates for Matérn Gaussian Processes on Riemannian Manifolds

NeurIPS 2023

Vector-valued Gaussian Processes on Riemannian Manifolds via Gauge Independent Projected Kernels

NeurIPS 2021

Geometry-aware Bayesian Optimization in Robotics using Riemannian Matérn Kernels

CoRL 2021

Matérn Gaussian Processes on Graphs

AISTATS 2021

Matérn Gaussian Processes on Riemannian Manifolds

NeurIPS 2020

Stochastic Poisson Surface Reconstruction with One Solve using Geometric Gaussian Processes

ICML 2025

A Unifying Variational Framework for Gaussian Process Motion Planning

AISTATS 2024

Multi-objective Bayesian optimisation for design of Pareto-optimal current drive profiles in STEP

IEEE TPS 2024

The Cambridge Law Corpus: A Dataset for Legal AI Research

NeurIPS 2023

Geometry-aware Bayesian Optimization in Robotics using Riemannian Matérn Kernels

CoRL 2021

Learning Contact Dynamics using Physically Structured Neural Networks

AISTATS 2021

Aligning Time Series on Incomparable Spaces

AISTATS 2021

Variational Integrator Networks for Physically Structured Embeddings

AISTATS 2020

Sparse Parallel Training of Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Topic Models

EMNLP 2020

Pólya Urn Latent Dirichlet Allocation: A Doubly Sparse Massively Parallel Sampler

IEEE TPAMI 2019

Talks

Geometric Probabilistic Models

· Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence