Hi! I'm Donney.
I am a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, supervised by Geoff Pleiss and Mark Schmidt . I am generally interested in machine learning algorithms, with a focus on Bayesian Optimization.
I received my MASc in ECE from University of Toronto, where I worked with Ben Liang in resource-constrained scheduling, and my BASc in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia.
Selected Publications
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Search at the Cost of Sampling: Nearly-Instant Latent Space Bayesian Optimization
Donney Fan, Colin Doumont, Aleksandra Kalisz, Paul Duckworth, Jacob R. Gardner, Henry Moss, Geoff Pleiss
To appear at NeurIPS 2026 -
Adaptive Candidate Point Thompson Sampling for High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization
Donney Fan, Geoff Pleiss
AISTATS 2026 -
We Still Don’t Understand High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization
Colin Doumont, Donney Fan, Natalie Maus, Jacob R. Gardner, Henry Moss, Geoff Pleiss
AISTATS 2026 Oral Presentation Best Student Paper Award