Vlad Tkachuk

PhD Student
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta

Email: vtkachuk@ualberta.ca
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"There is no substitute for hard work"
- Thomas Edison
"Let no one say that taking action is hard... the hardest thing in the world is making a decision"
- Franz Grillparzer

About

I am a second-year PhD student in Computing Science at the University of Alberta, working under the supervision of Csaba Szepesvári and Xiaoqi Tan. I completed my master's degree at the University of Alberta, also under the supervision of Csaba Szepesvári. Before that, I obtained my bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Research Interests

I am currently interested in reinforcement learning theory, specifically in the offline setting and in the representational power of transformers, specifically at inference time.