Jonathan Shock

Prof. Jonathan Shock is an associate professor in the Department of Maths and Applied Maths, Interim Director of the UCT AI Initiative at the University of Cape Town and an adjunct professor at the INRS Montreal. Originally from Oxford, England, he completed his PhD at the University of Southampton in 2005, in applications of string theory to understanding quantum chromodynamics. He then had postdoctoral research positions in Beijing, Santiago de Compostela and Munich before becoming a lecturer at the University of Cape Town in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in 2013. Prof. Shock has a wide array of research interests and spends a lot of his time supervising students. His research interests cover machine learning (in particular reinforcement learning), theoretical physics, and neuroscience.