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Ronald Lencevičius

PhD Student

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About Me

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 love driving 🏎 and have done two coast-to-coast roadtrips in my trusty clunker. Lastly, I am rather fond of cats 🐱 and help out at the local cat shelter.

I am happy to connect and chat about anything at the drop of a hat :^)

Research

An Empirical Analysis of the Laplace and Neural Tangent Kernels

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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

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RP Lencevičius, August 2019
National Science Foundation REU Site in Big Data Security & Privacy

Summer research project

Presentations

Container-driven Reproducible Research Made Simple

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Berkeley Institute of Data Science + Stanford Data Science

RP Lencevicius, October 2024
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Academic Data Science Alliance Annual Meeting


RP Lencevicius, May 2024
University of California, Berkeley

Inaugural Berkeley-Stanford Veridical Data Science Workshop

Workshop on Container-driven Reproducible Research

University of California, Santa Barbara
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RP Lencevicius, June 2024
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

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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

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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

Activities

Conference Reviewer

  • 38th Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems — Vancouver, Canada | 2024
  • More TBA... ;^)

Conference Attendance

  • Academic Data Science Alliance Annual Meeting — Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 2024
  • 41st International Conference on Machine Learning — Vienna, Austria | 2024
  • Berkeley-Stanford Veridical Data Science Workshop — Berkeley, CA, USA | 2024
  • Cal Poly SWIFT Tech Symposium — Virtual | 2021
  • Southern California Computer and Information Science and Engineering REU Symposium — USC Institute for Creative Technologies, CA, USA | 2019
  • 36th International Conference on Machine Learning — Long Beach, CA, USA | 2019

Outreach & Volunteering