Ben Burns | Research
I am broadly interested in mathematical machine learning, (stochastic) optimal control, and data assimilation. Please feel free to reach out for my CV!
research experience
-
Undergraduate Honors Thesis
- Supervised by Professor Markos Katsoulakis and Dr. Benjamin Zhang
- Title: A Mean-Field Games Approach to Score-based Generative Modeling
-
DARoS Laboratory (2022 - 2024)
- Supervised by Professor Donghyun Kim
- Studying robot state estimation and invariant EKFs through Lie groups
-
UMass Math REU (2023)
- Supervised by Professor Markos Katsoulakis and Dr. Benjamin Zhang
- Studied score-based generative modeling with stochastic differential equations and mean-field games
- Implemented Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman regularizer for potential implicit score matching
-
UMass Math REU (2022)
- Supervised by Professor R. İnanç Baykur
- Studied Stein fillings and mapping class groups, specifically relations of Dehn twists on genus 0 surfaces
- Wrote an expository paper on fundamental group presentations under local curve conjugation
-
Noblis, intern (2022, 2021)
- Supervised by Dr. Scott James
- Summary of work available on request