👋 My name is Chris Guthrie. I'm a software engineer and now a student of algorithmic decision-making, currently pursuing a research-based Computer Science Master's at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

I'm a native of Boulder, and am happy to be able to live here again as an adult. I enjoy hiking, running, and skiing in the Colorado mountains. I've had some wonderful travel experiences as well.

Me surveying Salzburg, Austria

CV in Brief

Stanford Undergrad > Travel > App Development Projects (Mobile and Web) > Google > CU Boulder

Academic Interests

My interests are diverse and perhaps not always self-consistent. But here they are:

Theory

  • Learning from bandit feedback, especially adversarial bandits
  • Algorithmic game theory
  • Online learning and optimization

Techniques

  • Deep reinforcement learning
  • Meta-learning and other approaches to knowledge-sharing between task-specific agents

Applications

  • Recommender systems (particularly privacy-preserving systems)
  • Personal AI assistants
  • Robotics