# Tyler LaBonte

 Tyler LaBonte Machine Learning Research Intern at Google X Viterbi Fellow at the University of Southern California t + lastname@usc.edu

## About Me

I am a machine learning research intern at Google X working on computational agriculture and an undergraduate researcher in the Theory Group at USC, formerly advised by Jason D. Lee and David Kempe. Previously, I was a machine learning research intern at Sandia National Laboratories and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

I will graduate from USC in May 2021 with my B.S. in Applied and Computational Mathematics. I am currently applying to Ph.D. programs in machine learning theory. If you are interested in working together, please contact me!

## Research Interests

• Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning and Data Science

• Theory of Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning

• Online Learning and Bandit Problems

• Non-Convex Optimization and High-Dimensional Statistics

• Explainability, Fairness, Robustness, and Scalability of Machine Learning

## Selected Awards

• USC Trustee Scholar ($250,000) • USC Viterbi Fellow ($24,000)

• Dolphin Scholarship ($13,600) • Admiral Bernard Clarey Memorial Scholarship ($7,000)