Yassir Jedra

Postdoctoral Fellow
Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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About me

I am starting this Fall as a postdoctoral fellow at LIDS, MIT, working with Devavrat Shah, where I am generously supported by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. My current research interest revolves around high dimensional sequential decision making with a particular interest in the fundamental limits of learning. Recently, I have been working on topics in reinforcement learning, multi-armed bandits, system identification and adaptive control, with the aim of understanding how to exploit structural assumptions (of practical relevance) to enable fast learning

I recieved my PhD from the EECS school at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, advised by Alexandre Proutiere, where I was also part of the WASP AI program. Prior to that, I received a M.Sc. degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics within the Engineering Physics' program at KTH. I received both my  B.Sc. degree and  M.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France, in 2015 and 2018, respectively.  

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