who am i

Hello, my name is Arijus. At this point, I do doctorate studies at Magnet, a research team in Lille. In Magnet, some of the work is on decentralized/federated learning, data privacy, natural language processing...

I work with Jan Ramon, and I am mainly working on distributed averaging, regression, differential privacy, random graphs, constraint optimization.

how did i get here

Before Lille, I worked on Bayesian methods at Aalto. Before that, in 2017, I received my master's degree in computing science and mathematics from Glasgow. And in 2012, I got my Brandos Atestatas from the Juozas Balčikonis gymnasium, Panevėžys.

who have i worked with in the past

• Andrew Hoskins asked at what extent anyone could collect images of war from social media.
  Arijus Pleska, Andrew Hoskins, Karen Renaud. "A Framework for Interrogating Social Images to Reveal an Emergent Archive of Modern War." IJHAC: A Journal of the Digital Humanities, 2019.
• Bayesian optimization is what Marko Järvenpää showed me at Aalto.
  Marko Järvenpää, Michael U. Gutmann, Arijus Pleska, Aki Vehtari, and Pekka Marttinen. "Efficient acquisition rules for model-based approximate Bayesian computation." Bayesian Analysis, 2019.
• https://github.com/elfi-dev/elfi is a library for approximate Bayesian computations, where Henri Vuollekoski and I put Marko's idea.
• Topic models in mass spectrometry imaging is what Simon Rogers helped with for the master's.
  Arijus Pleska. "Spatial Smoothing in Mass Spectrometry Imaging." 2017.

current activity

In July 2022, presented a poster in the 4th MaDICS symposium. This work is with Jan Ramon, and it is titled "Estimating Unbiased Averages of Sensitive Attributes without Handshakes among Agents"

contact

If you would like to you could reach me through arijus.pleska inria fr