James Anderson

Associate Professor, Columbia University
Joined
October 2022

Names

James Anderson (Preferred)

Emails

****@columbia.edu (Confirmed)
, 
****@columbia.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Associate Professor
Columbia University (columbia.edu)
2025 – Present
Assistant Professor
Columbia University (columbia.edu)
2020 – 2024
Postdoc
California Institute of Technology (caltech.edu)
2016 – 2019
Postdoc
University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk)
2012 – 2016
PhD student
University of Oxford, University of Oxford (eng.ox.ac.uk)
2008 – 2012

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Antonis Papachristodoulou
Present
Postdoc Advisor
Stevel Low
Present
Postdoc Advisor
John Doyle
Present

Expertise

Representation learning
Present
JEPA
, 
world models
, 
invariance
2025 – Present
Federated Learning
, 
distributed learning
2020 – Present
Control theory
2010 – Present
Convex optimization
2010 – Present

Publications

Co-Authors