Jesse van Oostrum | jessevoostrum

About

I am a PhD student in the field of mathematics with applications to cognitive sciences under the supervision of Nihat Ay. I study models of perception, action selection and consciousness using information and probability theory, and in particular Bayesian networks.

Before, I studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge (Part III) and liberal arts and sciences at University College Utrecht.

Publications

Activities

Upcoming

  • GSO2025: Guided Self-Organization: Machine Learning in Embodied Agents. Tübingen, Germany. February 2025.

Past

  • The Active Self. Working group on the self, artificial intelligence and consciousness at the Sante Fe Institute, March 2024. (organizer)
  • Santa Fe Institute summer school on “Intelligence & Representation” in Cambridge UK, August 2023.
  • IG4DS: Information Geometry for Data Science, Hamburg, Germany. September 2022.
  • MoC3: Models of Consciousness, Stanford, USA. September 2022.
  • WUPES ‘22: The 12th Workshop on Uncertainty Processing, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. June 2022.
  • Conference on Mathematics of Machine Learning, Bielefeld, Germany. August 2021
  • GSI 2021: International Conference on Geometric Science of Information, Paris, France. June 2021.