Vladimir Vovk

Vladimir Vovk is Professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London; he also heads the Computer Learning Research Centre. His research interests include machine learning; predictive and Kolmogorov complexity, randomness, and information; the foundations of probability and statistics. He has published numerous research papers in these fields and two books: "Probability and finance: It's only a game" (with Glenn Shafer, Wiley, New York, 2001; Japanese translation: Iwanami...See more

Vladimir Vovk is Professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London; he also heads the Computer Learning Research Centre. His research interests include machine learning; predictive and Kolmogorov complexity, randomness, and information; the foundations of probability and statistics. He has published numerous research papers in these fields and two books: "Probability and finance: It's only a game" (with Glenn Shafer, Wiley, New York, 2001; Japanese translation: Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 2006) and "Algorithmic learning in a random world" (with Alex Gammerman and Glenn Shafer, Springer, New York, 2005), which is a comprehensive book on the Conformal Predictions framework. See less