Spencer Frei

Spencer Frei

Assistant Professor, UC Davis

Spencer Frei is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at UC Davis. He is broadly interested in machine learning, with a particular interest in understanding and improving deep learning.

Prior to joining UC Davis, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, mentored by Peter Bartlett and Bin Yu as a part of the NSF/Simons Collaboration on the Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning. He completed his PhD in Statistics at UCLA.

Program Visits

Modern Paradigms in Generalization, Fall 2024, Visiting Scientist
program
Modern Paradigms in Generalization
visiting
Fields
deep learning, optimization