About

👋 Hi! I’m a PhD student in the Evolutionary Intelligence group at the Dutch Institute for Maths & Computer Science (CWI).

My primary research interests are Hyperparameter Optimization and Synthetic data. I believe leveraging Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) for non-differentiable Machine Learning problems such as these is a potentially high-impact research direction. In addition to not requiring gradients, most EAs are trivial to parallelize & scale, so they are fully compatible with Sutton’s Bitter Lesson.

Life-wise I’m into fantasy, hiking, and discussing weird ideas.

Always happy to chat about these topics! Drop me a line at alex@chebykin.dev