Jan-Willem van de Meent

Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
Joined
November 2017

Names

Jan-Willem van de Meent (Preferred)
Jan Willem van de Meent

Emails

****@northeastern.edu (Confirmed)
****@northeastern.edu (Confirmed)
****@uva.nl (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Associate Professor
University of Amsterdam (uva.nl)
2021Present
Assistant Professor
Northeastern University (northeastern.edu)
20162023
Postdoc
University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk)
20132016
Postdoc
Columbia University (columbia.edu)
20112013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisee
2025Present
PhD Advisee
2024Present
PhD Advisee
2023Present
PhD Advisee
2023Present
PhD Advisee
2023Present
PhD Advisee
2023Present
Postdoc Advisee
Daniel Acuna Ramirez
2023Present
PhD Advisee
Jacobus Dijkman
2022Present
Postdoc Advisee
2022Present
Coworker
2021Present
Coworker
2021Present
Coworker
2020Present
Coworker
2020Present
Coworker
2020Present
Coauthor
2018Present
Coauthor
2016Present
Coauthor
2011Present
Postdoc Advisee
20232025
PhD Advisee
20232025
Coworker
20202025
PhD Advisee
20182025
Coworker
20202024
PhD Advisee
20192024
PhD Advisee
20192024
PhD Advisee
20182024
PhD Advisee
20172024
PhD Advisee
Eli Sennesh
20182023
PhD Advisee
20172023
Coauthor
20192022
PhD Advisee
20192021
PhD Advisee
20192021
Coauthor
20192021
Coworker
20172021
PhD Advisee
Iris Seaman
20182020
Postdoc Advisor
20132016
Postdoc Advisor
20112013

Expertise

Flow Matching
2023Present
Deep Generative Models
2016Present
Planning as Inference
2015Present
Bayesian Optimization
2014Present
Probabilistic Programming
2013Present
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
2013Present
Importance Sampling
2013Present
Sequential Monte Carlo
2013Present
Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo
2013Present
Variational Inference
2011Present
Deep Reinforcement Learning
20192024
Natural Language Processing
20162024
Semi-supervised learning
20162020
Hidden Markov Models
20112013

Publications

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Co-Authors