My name is Ronaldas Paulius Lencevičius (though I go by Ronald) and I am working on my PhD in the Department of Statistics & Applied Probability (PSTAT) @ University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously, I completed a double B.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics as well as a M.S. in Statistics @ California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
My research interests are statistical learning, machine learning theory, and robustness. I am also passionate about software development and enjoy contributing to open source projects. I am currently working as the Research Computing Assistant for the PSTAT Computing Committee where I develop reproducible research computing tools used by our department and maintain the PSTAT Computing Wiki. I am also a Graduate Student Mentor for the 2024-2025 cohort of the Pacific Alliance for Low-income Inclusion in Statistics and Data Science (PALiISaDS) program. Previously, I was an Adjunct Officer for the PSTAT Graduate Student Committee. Additionally, I am a certified Carpentries Instructor, collaborating with the UCSB Library's DREAM Lab to co-lead workshops that support research computing skills across disciplines.
Some fun facts: I'm from Lithuania 🇱🇹 and moved to California in 2004. I love exploring and going out to naturey places 🌲 to practice my photography 📷 with my Pentax K-S2. I really enjoy driving 🏎 and have done two coast-to-coast roadtrips. I am also rather fond of cats 🐱 and help out at the local cat shelter. Lastly, I am the creator and maintainer of the Old School RuneScape Icon Pack for Visual Studio Code.
I am happy to connect and chat about anything at the drop of a hat :^)
An Empirical Analysis of the Laplace and Neural Tangent Kernels
RP Lencevičius, August 2022
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Master's thesis completed under the guidance of Dr. Jimmy Risk
Face-Off: Steps towards physical adversarial attacks on facial recognition
RP Lencevičius, August 2019
National Science Foundation REU Site in Big Data Security & Privacy
Summer research project
Container-driven Reproducible Research Made Simple
RP Lencevicius, October 2024
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Academic Data Science Alliance Annual Meeting
RP Lencevicius, May 2024
University of California, Berkeley
Workshop on Container-driven Reproducible Research
RP Lencevicius, June 2024, February 2025
University of California, Santa Barbara
UCSB Library Workshop in collaboration with DREAM Lab and CNSI's Center for Scientific Computing
Methods and Algorithms of Automatic Speech Recognition
RP Lencevičius, September 2021
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series in association with Nuance Communications software engineer internship
Physical Adversarial Attacks for Facial Recognition Systems
RP Lencevičius, August 2019
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Creative Activities & Research Symposium
RP Lencevičius, August 2019
University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Southern California Computer and Information Science and Engineering REU Symposium