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Prof. Jared Tanner

PhD
Status
Academic Faculty

Professor of the Mathematics of Information Fellow of Exeter College Editor-in-Chief of Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA

Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/tanner/
+44 1865 615311
Research groups
  • Data Science
  • Numerical Analysis

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Recent publications
Activation function design for deep networks: linearity and effective initialisation
Murray, M Abrol, V Tanner, J Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (04 Jan 2022)
Mutual information of neural network initialisations: mean field approximations
Tanner, J Ughi, G Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 813-818 (01 Sep 2021)
Dense for the price of sparse: improved performance of sparsely initialized networks via a subspace offset
Price, I Tanner, J Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021) volume 139 8620-8629 (01 Jul 2021)
An empirical study of derivative-free-optimization algorithms for targeted black-box attacks in deep neural networks
Ughi, G Abrol, V Tanner, J Optimization and Engineering (30 Jun 2021)
Approximate message passing with a colored aliasing model for variable density Fourier sampled images
Millard, C Hess, A Mailhe, B Tanner, J IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing volume 1 146-158 (18 Sep 2020)
Research interests

My research focus is on the design, analysis, and application of numerical algorithms for information inspired applications in signal & image processing.

Prizes, awards, and scholarships

Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2009

Sloan Research Fellowship, 2007

Monroe H. Martin Prize, 2005

Leslie Fox Prize, 2003

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