Jeffrey Pennington

I am a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, where I am a member of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. I work with Chris Manning in the Natural Language Processing Group.

Recently, my work has focused on the development of deep learning algorithms for natural language processing. I am also interested in broader research topics such as the mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence.

I completed my Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics while working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory with Lance Dixon in the theoretical physics group.

My graduate work centered on high-energy physics, with an emphasis on higher-order calculations in perturbation theory. My dissertation presents a novel method for calculating scattering amplitudes and related quantities based on their analytic structure. The method has seen many applications, particularly within N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory.

Contact Gates CS Building, 227 Information Curriculum Vitae INSPIRE-HEP
Publications Machine Learning Physics
  • Glove: global vectors for word representation
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014 (to appear)
  • Bootstrapping six-gluon scattering in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory
    Lance J. Dixon, James M. Drummond, Claude Duhr, Matt von Hippel , Jeffrey Pennington
    Proceedings of Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory, 2014 (to appear)
  • The four-loop remainder function and multi-Regge behavior at NNLLA in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory
    Lance J. Dixon, James M. Drummond, Claude Duhr, Jeffrey Pennington
    Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2014
  • The BFKL equation, Mueller-Navelet jets and single-valued harmonic polylogarithms
    Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2014
  • Generalized polylogarithms in perturbative quantum field theory
    Ph.D. thesis
  • Hexagon functions and the three-loop remainder function
    Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2013
  • Leading singularities and off-shell conformal integrals
    James M. Drummond, Claude Duhr, Burkhard Eden, Paul Heslop, Jeffrey Pennington , Vladimir A. Smirnov
    Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2013
  • The six-point remainder function to all loop orders in the multi-Regge limit
    Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2013
  • Single-valued harmonic polylogarithms and the multi-Regge limit
    Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2012
  • Semi-supervised recursive autoencoders for predicting sentiment distributions
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2011
  • Dynamic pooling and unfolding recursive autoencoders for paraphrase detection
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2011
  • Non-perturbative string theory from water waves
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2011
  • String theory and water waves
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2011
  • Charge and current neutralization of an ion beam pulse by background plasma in presence of applied magnetic field and gas ionization
    Proceedings of 22nd Particle Accelerator Conference, 2007
  • D-branes and fluxes in supersymmetric quantum mechanics
    arXiv e-Print: hep-th/0511002, 2005
  • Bäcklund transformations, D-branes, and fluxes in minimal type 0 strings
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2005

Jeffrey Pennington | | | August 2014

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