Vladimir Vovk
Born	1960  Ukraine
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Known for	Conformal prediction
Academic career
Fields	Machine learning Statistics
Institutions	Royal Holloway, University of London
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Kolmogorov, Alexei Semenov
Doctoral students	Craig John Saunders, Yuri Alekseevich Kalnishkan, Brian John Burford, Daniil Borisovich Ryabko, Fedor Zhdanov, Jason A. E. Weston, Ivan Petej

Vladimir Vovk is a British computer scientist, and professor at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the co-inventor of Conformal prediction and is known for his contributions to the concept of E-values. He is the co-director of the Centre for Machine Learning at Royal Holloway University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Career

Vovk started working as a researcher in the Russian Academy of Sciences, then became a Fellow in the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.^[1] He was appointed as a professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, where he currently serves as co-director of the Centre for Machine Learning.

Early in his career, Vovk was heavily involved in the development of the foundations of probability, along with Glenn Shafer. Their work has resulted in a book, Probability and Finance: It's Only a Game!, published in 2001, which was subsequently translated into Japanese in 2006 by Masayuki Kumon and edited by Kei Takeuchi. In 2005, he co-invented the Conformal prediction framework with Alexander Gammerman.

Vovk has delivered speeches all around the world. In 2021, he was invited to deliver a series of memorial lectures to Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in India.^[2] On the 20-year anniversary of The Society for Imprecise Probability (SIPTA) in 2019, he was invited to deliver a talk on "Game-theoretic foundations for imprecise probabilities" in Belgium.^[3] In 2016, he delivered a seminar about "Probability-free theory of continuous martingales" at Imperial College in the UK.^[4] In 2014, he delivered a seminar at University of Hawai'i in the USA.^[5]

Vovk has written 9 books, more than 280 research papers, and has an estimated h-index of 53.^[6] He holds fellowship positions at Stanford University (USA), Arizona State University (USA) and Yandex (Russia).^[1][7][8]

Selected books

• Game-theoretic foundations for probability and finance (2019), Wiley, ISBN 0470903058.
• Conformal Prediction for Reliable Machine Learning: Theory, Adaptations and Applications (2014), Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 0123985374.
• Algorithmic Learning in a Random World (2005), Springer, ISBN 0387001522.
• Probability and finance: it's only a game (2001), Wiley, ISBN 0471402265.