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Details for Dr David Leslie
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr David Leslie |
| Job title | Visiting Fellow |
| Department | School of Mathematics University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/~madsl |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | M.A.(Cantab.), C.A.S.M., Ph.D.(Bristol) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Council Member of the Royal Statistical Society Member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
| Keywords | multi-agent learning learning in games stochastic approximation game theory reinforcement learning Bayesian modelling Dirichlet process sequential Monte Carlo |
| Areas of expertise | Multi-agent learning Mathematical methods for coordinating independent agents through learning. In particular, reinforcement learning and fictitious play techniques to ensure convergence to appropriate behaviour when there is minimal information available to the agents. Bayesian mixture modelling The Dirichlet process in Bayesian semi-parametric models. Bayesian clustering using mixture models. Mixture models for latent variables. Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques. Sequential Monte Carlo Applying sequential Monte Carlo algorithms to real statistical problems. Developing adaptive sequential Monte Carlo algorithms. |