Lauren Knopp's REU 2025 Web Page

About Me



Name: Lauren Knopp
Email: lgknopp@uvm.edu
Office: CoRE 417
Home Institution: University of Vermont
Project: Property Testing Algorithms Under Space Constraints applied to PAC learning
Mentor: Professor Sumegha Garg

About Me

I am a Computer Science and Math student at the University of Vermont who loves complexity theory, probability, machine learning, unsupervised learning, neural networks, and AI ethics. When I'm not pouring over textbooks and papers or furiously writing on whiteboards, you can find me organizing student-centered AI ethics talks at UVM, cooking falafel or massaman curry, or volunteering for GirlsWhoCode in the Burlington, VT area.

Research Log

Week 1: May 27 - May 30

I started reviewing topics in Computational Learning Theory and Probability Theory I haven't been exposed to yet. Professor Garg and I met for the first time and discussed realizability in CLT and talked through what it means for a distribution of hypotheses to be realizable. I started writing my project presentation for next week, and am doing an in depth review of computational learning theory this week utilizing textbooks and lectures from Cambridge and Oxford. I also built this website!

Funding and Acknowlegements

Thank you to Prof. Sumegha Garg, Dr. Lazaros Gallos, and Lawrence Frolov for their mentorship and support throughout the program. Thank you also to Charles University in Prague and the DIMACS REU as a whole for their funding and accomodations. This was truly an unforgettable experience!