Anthony Blaom
Anthony Blaom carries out mathematics research and data science consulting. He resides in Auckland, New Zealand.
Anthony was initially trained as a mechanical engineer, topping his class at the University of Melbourne in 1991. After completing a MSc in Aeronautics and a PhD in Mathematics at Caltech in 1998, he joined the University of Auckland as a Lecturer. For a while he switched to part-time teaching, focusing on his young children, whom he homeschooled while living on the small island of Waiheke.
Anthony is a co-creator and the lead contributor to MLJ, a Julia machine learning platform developed at the Alan Turing Institute, London.
Session
We present MLJ, Machine Learning in Julia, a new toolbox for combining and systematically tuning machine learning models.